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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
SAVING THE BABIES
How One City Is Conserving
Lives of Infants.
Expert Finds Examples Of Gross Care
Iessness and Ignorance in the
Care of Youngsters Among
Both Whites and Blacks,

Richmond, Va.-That there are hum
dreds of thousands of American ba-
bies sacrificed yearly on the altar of
incompetent motherhood has been
proven conclusively by the officers of
the department of health Of this city.
That tens of thousands Of these in
fants may be saved, may be raised
into strong men and women, has also
been conclusively proven by DR.. Err
nest G. Levy, chief health officer of
Richmond, and his able assistants.
For the sake of the nation, for the
sake Of humanity, and for the sake
OF the happiness of mothers and faith
ers, DR.. Levy has proven that munich
pally supervised babies stand a bet
ter, far better, chance Of living than
DO unsupervised babies be they even
of the families of the very we'll to do
citizens.
Retaining the expert services of
Miss Elizabeth Detwiler, a trained
nurse specialized in the care of babies,
DR.. Levy planned the active campaign
for the saving of infant life in Rich
mond. Two great sections of the city
were chosen for the initial campaign,
one section in which whites of the la
boring classes lived, the other tenanted
by blacks. In these sections of the
city the infant mortality for years
had been exceedingly high. Securing
two more trained nurses, a house-to-
house canvass for babies was made in
these two sections. 1t took but few
weeks for the nurses to recognize the
great need for the supervision of the
care of babies in these sections Of the
city.
Examples of gross carelessness and
ignorance in the care of youngsters
were found among both the whites
and the blacks. Scores of young moth
ers were found who had to leave their
children many hours a day to careless
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
ST. MINI SATURDAY FEBRUARY a. 1912
WOMAN GETS GOOD POSITION
Clever Miss Mona Wilson to Help Put
Loyd-oeorge's New Insurance
Laws Into Effect,

London.-One of the few popular
things done by Lloyd George in connec-
ton with the new insurance bill which
Is shortly, to become law is the ap-
pointment of Mona Wilson as one of
the Board Of Commissioners to admin
lister the statute. No woman in trade
union circles has won more esteem by
her work than Miss Wilson, and al
though she may not be able to make
her particular department of the new
law workable, because of the inherent
weakness OF the whole scheme, she
will bring to bear on it more expert
knowledge, more human sympathy and
more practical intelligence than any
other woman whom the chancellor of
the exchequer could have named.
Miss Wilson is the daughter of Can
on Wilson, formerly archdeacon OF
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
Type of Mother Instructed by Nurses.

boarding mistresses who were really
criminally negligent in the prepara-
ton Of the bottled food given their
charges; many children, struggling in
fants Of but a few months of age,
were left to the care of grandmothers
who had had no experience with bot
tie babies and who did through ignor-
ance everything the wrong way, and
some of the infants were found to be
starving.
The nurses, therefore, quickly clas-
sihed the hundreds Of babies they
saw, planning to see some Of the
healthy, well-cared for babies once a
month and the sickly ones once or
even twice day. BY concentrating
their attention on the care of the ba-
bies who were really in desperate
need of assistance, Dr. Levy's little
first-aid-to-the-infant corps was able to
obtain remarkable results in keeping
alive and we'll children who, had they
been left to the sole care of their
mothers, would have died within a
few months Of starvation or disease.
In regard to the care of children,
the work Of the Richmond department
of health is simply one for the con-
servation of the human race Miss
Detwiler, whose expert advice is at
the disposal of the mothers of Rich
mond day and night, says, in regard to
her work among the mothers in the
districts visited by the city nurses,
In our work here we started with
four definite objects, viz, to give
babes a chance to be born without go.
rious prenatal handicaps; to make
mothers understand how to feed their
infants properly; to give mothers q
chance to carry out the Instructions
given them, and to provide well for
infants who have lost their mothers,
either by death or desertion.
Wherever it was possible, We in
sisted on mothers giving their babes
food supplied by nature. When this
was not possible, especially women
who had to work in factories, we in
sisted as far as possible on half breast
and half bottle feelings.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24

not be taken. Latin and Greek are
compulsory, and are rather overdone,
according to some of our informants.
In 1880 Count A. Tolstoy, cousin Of
the literary Leo and then minister of
education for the Russias, became
obsessed with the idea that in copious
doses of the classics would lie the
dissipation of the empires social I'm.
rest and that their study would foster
q spirit Of conservatism. So he dealt
out Latin and Greek with a generous
hand and the rising generation still
has to stagger along with his unwel-
come legacy. Gymnasia, of course,
are to be found only in the towns and
cities.
The kommerscheskaia are private
and trade schools. The courses Of
mental instruction are much easier
than those of the gymnasia They &C.
cur in the big towns and cities, and
are largely filed with the children of
the Jews.
In the national free schools of ST.
IBERIA, only from 2 to 5 per cent of
the attendance is permitted to be
composed of Jewish lads. This is not
much hardship in the villages, but in
the towns and cities the position will
not right itself. Great numbers of
Jewish lads are on the waiting list Of
every school.
All the Siberian schools, free and
otherwise, are filed to the utmost
limit of their capacity. In many cases
today they have to go on double time
schedule, detachments of the same
class being taught in the morning and
in the afternoon. ..~
Tomsk is the home of the only uni
versity in Siberia. Founded in 1880,
and opened seven years later, it has
now very creditable attendance,
which has been considerably under
rated, by the way, in recent books on
Siberian affairs. The roll stands at
over 1900, and each succg2qtng term
shows an increase of studehts The
university is non-residentAl, students
having to find their OWL quarters in
the town. Fees are very moderate,
100 rubles ($50) the year, which is
divided into two long terms one
starting in September, the other early
in the new year.
There are two schools medicine
and law. The former is the more i'm
portant. With It are connected
splendidly equipped anatomical labor.
atories and fine psychological In
shtute. It is under the auspices a
the medical school Of Tomsk univor
atty.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24

marvels one better. In principle the ice auto
mobile is not very different from the ordinary
commercial motors which are now employed for
delivery work in every city. However, the self
propelled adjunct of winter logging is provided
With sharp teeth which it sinks into the snow or
Ice as 1t progresses, thus insuring steady prog
ress with no slipping sliding on the smooth
surfaces.
But because the winter finds the lumber lacks
very busy In a temperature that ranges as low
as ~ 10 ~ degrees below zero it must not be sup
posed that they do not find time and opportunity
for plenty of fun in the isolated camps where they
spend the season. A logging camp may be any
"nere from live to twenty-five miles from the
nearest store and postofice but the lacks" are
Kept literally supplied with fresh butter fresh
meat, smoking and chewing tobacco etc. A
graphophone or photograph is an almost newt
able adjunct Of the isolated logging camp and the
lumpermen manage in one way and another to
get records Of the latest song hits from time to
time
The average logging camp has two main struc-
tures-the bunk house where the loggers sleep in
hunks arranged in tiers, and the cook shanty
where the food Is cooked and served To call
thls eatlng nall a shanty is, however something
of m1snomer, since the word Is likely to Suggest
a modest hut, whereas the cook shanty of an IN
to-date logging camp must be large enough to &C.
commodate crude dining table perhaps 40 feet
In length. The cooking in a logging camn ia
usually done by man and wife (almost invar.
iably Germany, who hire out as professional cooks
and who have the help of two masculine assist
ants They work over range that is 10 feet long
and on top OF which stands coffee urn that holds
as much as barrel meat boiler that holds I'm
pounds of pork or beef, and a can in which tbero
can be boiled at one time more than bushe1 If
potatoes Below are the ovens where are baked
some 10 to Is square feet of biscuits every dav
IN some camps heavy stoneware is provide ed for
use on the table, but at majority Of logging es-
hNffh -
allowed spoon, plate, and cup of tin and a
knife and fork of steel N
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24

A~OoSZvAtI<A /vLHLd
for the twentieth century logging crews In what we
might term the traditional seats of the lumber
industry, however, winter puts very differ
ent face on the whole matter of getting out
the logs and transporting them to the sawmills
that transform them into the marketable form
known to the average consumer. In Maine in
northern New York and Canada, in Michigan, in
Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas the summer
Is IN one sense vacation season for the lumber
jacks. At least it is an interlude Of restricted
activity and the lumbermen unlike some other
members Of the community welcome the passing
or the long, bright days and the advent of the Ice
King. The explanation Of this state of affairs Is
found, of course in the fact that snow and ice
afford the material for the ideal arteries of COM
munication in the lumber regions. The felled
trees may be conveyed to market more quickly
and more economically roads and ice
trails than by any other method known to the
industry. Indeed, there are lumber regions where
without these factors-and their sequel the big
thaw" in the spring-it would be virtually i'm
practicable to get the timber to market at an ex-
pense that would justify operations.
The and ice important as is their aid
are not the only influences that are now tending
to make the lumbermen concentrate their activ-
tiles in the fall and winter. OF late years con-
stantly increasing number Of our lumbermen have
been brought to see the wisdom of adopting what
is known conservative lumbering-that is lum-
bering which treats forest working capital
whose purpose Is to produce successive crops and
which calls for work in the woods that will leave
the standing trees and young growth as nearly
unframed as possible. Well, the minute a man
becomes convert to conservative numbering he
is certain to become advocate of the cold sea-
son as the proper time for carrying on all the
operations Of numbering.
To make this point clear 1t may be pointed out
that the difference between practical work under
ordinary methods of numbering and under con-
sentative numbering is principally the selection
of the trees to cut In the telling Of these trees
and in the first part Of their journey from the
stump to the mil. It Is an established fact that
the amount of harm done to forest by the cut
ting depends considerably upon the season of the
year when the work in the woods is carried on
Much less damage will result to the young growth
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24

would otherwise he the case when the forest mon
arch comes down rocky, uneven ground
After all, however, it is in the various stages
Of the transportation of the logs that the snow
and ice yield the greatest aid F1rst OF all II SIM
plifes the operation of skdding or dragging the
log lengths from the depths Of the forest This
work formerly done by horses mules or
oxen, and is yet to some extent but Tor the most
part the modern donkey engine has supplanted all
other forms of energy for skiddng. Supposedly
the skidding operation is designed only to get
the logs out of the forest depths where no log
carrying vehicle could be operated without infinite
trouble and damage to the standing timber. How
ever, when the Snow King is in command it some
times happens that similar method may be en-
ployed for moving the logs to the rollway stor-
age yard, perhaps mile or two distant, where
the logs held to await the spring freshets
loaded aboard railroad cars that convey them
to the mills. For this long-distance log trailing
there is employed more powerful type of engine
than the donkey above referred to and a stronger
wire cable is supplied. The pathway for the logs
is an icy bouevard-kept in condition by flood
ing circumstances require-and this becomes
smooth from the polishing process afforded by
the passage of the logs that it is practicable to
transport at each operation not merely single
log but whole strings of logs attached end to
end by means Of stout chains.
At some lumber camps 1t Is the practice to en-
ploy giant sleds to carry the logs on the first
stage of their journey from the forest to the saw
MILL VI course snow Is requisite 10 the salts
factory operation of these sleds, but when a
path" has been worn for the sled runners along
the icy roads the vehicles traverse the line thus
furrowed with facility suggestive of that with
which a locomotive glides along the steel rails
There is. OF course, minimum Of resistance to
the progress Of sled along such glazed surface
and In many instances log loads of almost incred-
IDLE weight are thus transported over the glisten-
ing surface. A new wrinkle that characterizes
winter practice In some of the up-to-date logging
districts consists Of what might be -denominated
an ice automobile for log carrying. Powerful
traction engines have been used for some time
past on the Pacific Coast to draw trains of log
laden trucks out OF the forest, but this new form
OF commercial Inotor vehicle goes even these
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
Celebrate Golden WeddIno.

Oxford, N. J.-At the golden wed
ding celebration of Mr.. and Mrs. Marx
Blessing, at their home, in Belvidere
avenue, one Of the guests was Mrs.
Louisa F1chtel, sister of Mrs. Bless,
Ing, who celebrated her golden we'd
ding six years ago. Mr.. and Mrs.
Blessing have seven children, twenty
one grandchildren and two great,
grandchildren.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24

The present style of letter boxes
opens on the side, and the carriers
cannot see the interior without diff
Guilty, 80 that to prevent overlooking
letters they have to feel around with
their hands. In the new box the face
or front falls to the level of the bot
tom of the receptacle, exposing every
part of the interior to the view.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
IMPROVEMENT IN LETTER BOX
1t Has Been Adopted by Postoffice De.
partment and Will Be Installed
Throughout Country.

Washington.-A new style of street
letter box has been adopted by the
postofice department, and will be in
stalled throughout the larger cities of
the country within the next year. It
is to be mounted on a fluted wooden or
iron pedestal, and by postal authori-
ties Is considered great improvement
over the boxes fastened to lamp posts.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
Prisoner Hear. Juror. wranule,

Evansville, Ind.-Henry w. Meyer,
accused Of murder, heard the discus
sion from his cell window when one
juror held out eight hours to hang
him. He was nervous wreck when
the Juror made & unanimous for %
Quittal.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
REVENGE.

Official Ito barber condemned to death)-In an
hours time now, my poor man. you must prepare
for your DOOM Have you any last dying wish?
Condemned Barber (savagely)-Yes. I'd ike
to shave the crown Observation-Disclosures Opinion
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
EXTREMELY POLITE.

You ought to call DR.. Pulem. he's the
best dentist In town" :.
One OF those so-called painless dentists oh p
NO; but ne always says. beg your pardon
before pulling tooth"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
PRAISE WORTH WHILE

society woman paid you handsome COM
phment the other day, Mr.. Drugsly"
an indeed! May I ask who the lady was?"
certainly. 1t was Mrs Whoopindvke She
said you sold the best dog soap in town"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
H112iRY

:#I and to the trees
~ left standing if
I the numbering is
done after the
growing season is over
instead Of being allowed
to go on in the spring
and summer while the
bark is loose and the
leaves and twigs are ten
der. Moreover, if there
be a heavy blanket Of
snow on the ground, a.
tree, after it has been
felled with ak or saw,
stands a chance Of
crashing to earth with
less damage than it
would sustain at another
season Of the year. The
tree trunk that falls on a
bed of snow Is not likely
to split or to break as
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24
Breaks His Neck,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Schultz fell
out Of bed at the county hospital and
broke his neck. He died shortly aft
or the accident.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24

lTH the lumber jacks In many
sections Of the United States the
winter Is the busy season of the
year, the harvest time, as 1t
were, and they work almost as
theoretically to get out" the
requisite number Of logs during
the interim of snow and ice as
does the farmer to get in his
grain ere the autumn rains set
in. Only, to be sure, the lum-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-02-24

bermen are not menaced by quite
tainty as to weather conditions a
In autumn, for in many Of the n
camps it is almost unheard of for
a season to embody less than five
months of shedding, that is, five
months Of continuous snow and
ice.
In the logging regions of the
Pacific Northwest, of course,
where may be found perhaps the
greatest Of natures lumber store
houses, the winter does not make
the marked difference in condi-
tons that it does in the forests of
some other sections of the coun.
try. In western Oregon and
Washington there is so little
snow, and that of such a tran
s1ent character, that the lumber
men cannot depend upon it as
they do elsewhere to- help them
with their work. But, on the 9TH
or hand, the Puget Sound and
Columbia River country is free
from that severe weather which
renders 1t imperative for lumber
Jacks elsewhere to constantly
have a care lest they suffer from
frostbitten hands and feet. SINH
larly in the south, where cypress
1s king and where much of the
logging is done in
swamps, the winter pre-.
scribes no change of
method or equipment a. {
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-11-15

Nueva York, viernes
Ell Presidente publico una proclama
anoche fjando los derechos que dehen
pagan a su paso por ell Canal de Pana-
ma los buques extranjeros:
$1,2l por tonelada de capacidad ac-
tual con reducciun de 40 00 para los
barcos en- lastre; 81 30 tonelada meta en-
transportes del Ejercito y la Armada
$3.50 por tonelada de deplazamiento en-
buques de la Armada que no sean trans
portes, carboneros y hospitales.
Los buques costeros americanos estan
eXentOs de derechos
Ell Secretario de la Guerra dictara
reglas instrucciones para las modi-
das. J.. s. - yws "
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NEUROSINE PRUNIER
RECONSTITUYEN TIE GENERAL
CABLEGRAMAS
Homenaje a Canalejas

Nucva York. viernes.
Aver fue depositado EN- Ell panteon el
cuerpo del presidente del Consejo de
ministries espanol senior Canalejas, tri-
butandosele los mas altos honores ma
cionales.
Ell Rey Don Alfonso XIII, ell principe
Carlos de Borbon y el principe Fernan-
do de Baviera iban pie detras del ca
rro funebre.
Doscientas cincuenta mil personals, de
pie, con las cabezas descubiertas, pre-
senciaron ell paso de la funebre conf
tiva.
Sc dice que ell asesino, que disparo
contra 81 mismo, fallecio aver sin hacer
declaraciones.
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DIAS DE FIESTA

A las 5, en- la Cathedral y Hospitslsa
Municipales
A las 5 p, en- san Ildefonso, las 6, on
Santa Ana; las l g., en- San Francis
co; las 6 liz, en- 81 Hospitalillo y Ca.
pilla Franciscana; las Z, en- Ia Cathedral
y San jose; las 7 liz, en- La Capills
Franciscana; a las 8, en La Catedral
A las 8, en- San Jose Sar Francisco
las 8, en- Ia Cateeral ' Capilla Fran
ciseana a Las 10, en- Santa Ana; las
Ii, en- Catsdrl.
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Ell mercado de
New York

Nueva York. viernes
Precios del mercado ell dla 13:
Jamon preparado picnic" de s a
10 lbras, 11-18.
Ell mismo, de a libras, Ill T.
Ell ,ismo, de a libras, III 2.
Jamon picnic" preparado dulce. de
8 a 10 hbras, Ill a.
Ell ,aismo, de libras, 11-12
Ell mismo, de libras, 11-58.
Manteca Prime Western II, As
Cambios sobre Londres, $4.8505.
Letras sobre Londres a 80 dias,
P4 1912
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Intercediendo
por la pa z

Nueva York, viernes.
Las potencias apoyaran Turquia en-
su peticion de armisticio que presento
aver al presidente del Gabinete bulgaro,
mientras Sc abren las negociaciones pa
ra la paz.
Los albaneses estan dando los pasos
necesarios para hacer a SUI pals indie
pendiente Publicaron una proclama de-
clarandose por la autonomia y han FRO
testado de cualquier intento de inter
venci0n contra la libertad y la integri-
dad del pals
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-11-15

Nueva York, viernes.
Ell Tesorero de los Estados Unidos,
Lee McClung, renuncio aver. lie suce-
dera Ell SUI cargo Carmi Thompson. No
Sc ha tijado ell dia en- que ha de reali-
zarse tai cambio. Hilles sera nombrsdc
de nrevo Secretario del Presidente.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-11-15
Romanones presi-
dente del Ministerio

Nueva York. viernes.
Ell conde Alvaro Romanones, prcsi-
dente de la Camara de los Diputados,
ha sido nombrado presidente del Con
sejo de ministries de Espana.
No cambiara a los ministries.
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MISA EN- SANTURCB

>Dias festivos: las ~, en- el asilo
de ninas; las 7 y IL, en- San Matso |;
s las 8, EN- la convalecencia; las 9 en-
San Mateo; las 3 4, las ocho, y q
las 10, en- la Parroquia del Sagrado Co
raz6n
Dfas laborables: A las 5 liz, en- ell An
nlio Mutuo Convalecencia de Herna
mas; las 7, en- San Mateo y Sagrade
Coraz6n.
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Las promesas
d e Wilson
Nueva York, viernes.

Wilson anuncio aver que tenia ell pro-
posito de cumplir los compromises Gle
la campaiia guitar de la tarifa los pri-
vilegios especiales, a evitar la compe-
tencia de mala calidad en- los negocios
y destruir los monopolios particulares.
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A V 1 : Q


Sc espera que los viajeros los Esta-
dos Unidos visiten la Exhibition de
Puerto Rico-New York,-5a. Avenida,
NO. $685. Esmerada atencion. Facili-
lidades Y ventajas. lie convene zanzibar
impresiones con Mr.. Mortimer Reming-
ton-Gerente.
Igualmente Sc lie tratara en- Ell Bu-
reau de information, San Francisco ST.
No. 80, San Juan ST desea exponer en-
propaganda alg1n articulo Sc lie con-
cedera local sufciente.
G. F. Correa,
Jefe del Bureau de information
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-11-15

do embajador de la nacion americana
en- ell Japon.
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Seccion Religiosa
LAS NISAS EN- SAN JUAN
DIAS LABORABLES

A las l 2, Ell San Ildefonso; q las
6 III, en- Santa Ana, Hospitalillo y Ca
pilla Franciscana, las T, en- la Cathedral
San Francisco y Capilla Franciscana, 8
las Z III, en- la Capilla Franciscana, /.
las 8 / Il, en- Ia Catedral