The Washington herald., 1911-05-02
TO.DAY'S PROGRAMME.

| to 10 a, m.-Business session.
10 q. m.-Department Of child n.y.
giene, conference Of State delegates
Importance Of birth registration for
baby saving and child-welfare work.
THE Necessity for department Of child
hygiene"
| Children's Matinee.
Sd. m.-'aThe Blue Bird" by Maeter-
linck. will be given by Miss Edith
Kunz. Of New York. at Hotel Arlington;
trip to Annapolis.
! 7:45 p. m.-Invocation; relation OF the
home to child-welfare; the use Of art
lists records in high school music.
p. m.-Report Of resolutions COM
mittee.
Seeing in the modern mother the
tendency that will ultimately blast
the hopes of future civilization,
Rev. DR.. Floyd w. Tomkins, OF
the Church of the Holy Trinity,
Philadelphia, administered scath-
ing rebuke to the woman who rides
about in her victoria with a lap
dog seated on the plush cushion be-
side her, while her neighbor's child,
hungry and destitute, trails be-
hind, in his address last night be-
fore 300 delegates to the Mothers
Congress at the Arlington Hotel.
SCORES SILLY FADs.
"Confound modern civilization" ex-
claimed Dr. Tomkins. There can never
be any healthy civilization in this coun-
try until you throw away such silly fads
and come hack to the good old-fashioned
way What kind of q heart can a wo-
man have who can idle away her time
fondling a fluffy white lap dog, taking
him out riding. and having servants wait
upon him. while there are 80 many help
less children going about IN rags, hungry.
desolate with no one to love them or
care for them, and no one to help them
In their suffering. Oh! the pathos Of 1t.
Let us bring to ourselves a higher and
richer civilization. Let US get rid Of this
tinseled affair we call civilization, and
lift up these helpless children, and pre-
serve our true civilization
Bitterly accusing the modern mother Of
keeping her children away from the table.
forcing them to eat in the nursery with
servants. and forgetting the way their
own mothers rocked them to sleep each
night. DR.. Tompkins pleaded earnestly
for the "old-fashioped way"
Those people who do not care for
children are a bark at civilization" de-
clared DR.. Tomkins. Modern civilization
does away with the cradle-rocking. A
mother now will let her baby cry itself
to sleep, because a pin is perhaps stick
ing 1t, without either trying to remove
the pin or quiet her baby. When was
boy I remember when mothers each
night went up themselves and held their
infants in their arms and sang and lulled
them to sleep. And instead Of eating
with nurses and servants, remember
when children sat at the table beside
their own parents and listened to things
that were beneficial to them. instead OF
to the nursery room talk.
Pleads for Patriotism.
He is the only true American who
hopes. Hope is vision. If you don't
see the vision, you will miss the
end Of civilization. If you do see the
vision you will love your coun-
try, be patriotic, and become the citi-
zen in the right word. The hope Of civil
Iization is gone when you permit chill
dren to mock at the sacredness of the
marriage and the home
For our children's sake we must clean
our civilization and purify their thoughts
of the home"
D. Tompxins deplored the tenement life
Of modern America. "Old America is the
best" M said. I'VE are now getting to
be tenants. There is no home and no
back yard. apd there Was never home |
without a back yard. The average man |
who lives in q tenement orr hotel or |
boarding house has to move out between |
three and five times a year. They say |
the home Is where the heart Ii, but how |
can your heart be in five places? The |
average American to-day has no place he |
can call home.
1T Ii an essential thing to recognize |
this home. You can't call this civilization |
Il We live in tenements and hotels. In |
his modern civilization Of ours we have
Az uOIuc.
Rabbi Abram Simon, pastor Of the
Hebrew Congregation, gave I
, mastery discussion of '"rhe Jewish
Church and the welfare Of the child"
He concluded by declaring that the Jew
sh Church would stand by the child and
support any measure for his welfare. de- i
'pite who Is the ruler.
Taking the home In religious terms"
vas the subject taken by Henry r.
cope, general sseretary Of the Religious
Education Association. under whose al
'ection the programme for the evening
vas given. i
James Cardinal Gibbons whb was un-
Ible to be present. sent the following
etter to the congress-:
Letter frUn Carllnal.
The home Il ths primeval school. II
) the best the most halIowsd. ana the
host potenfiaTsDf HI anad>s6lss; and the
'ersnt sspeeaa,lx the mother. - the 1
Irst the most i1nus1fie. ana ths'mostj |
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