Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-14

family still dragged mserably along and things did not
get better Higher wages to the might have helped
but matter of fact he was not worth what he
already getting
4The Serious thing said Mr.. Arnold, as that the
children would grow up worthless their father We
don't need any of his kind 1t ism right that they
should have chance; but don't know what to do"
This was where the civic nurse came in and stopped
the wasting of the Devore family She that what
the mother needed special treatment, and
arranged with the dispensary physician to have her
sent to hospital. The boy was backward in school
because of the condition of his eyes, They badly
crossed but corrected by slight operation and the
of glasses. And the whole family needed more
nourshng food than the mother knew how to pre-
pare; for she of the who spend their
grlhood in sweatshops factories or behind counters
and have had no time or opportunity to learn the diff
cult arts of homemakng The taught Mrs Devore
the elements of cooking marketing and simple dietetics
Just today, four months after she took charge, have
the nurses final report this She says that
the family is comfortable and able to get along without
further assistance.
But the most important thing that particular civic
did to help the Devore children People are
and of applying the statement to heredty; but
it is to overlook the fact that water be
artifcially pumped high one chooses and that
has artifcially pumped the little Devores to
level where they sufficiently fed and clothed and
where they may be useful to the community than
their parents have been.
A MONG the special human pumping plants, so to
speak, are the pure milk depots with which both
private charity and the municipalities have dotted
New York, Chicago, Boston, and other cities
visited of these milk depots in district where
there samples of all the nations of the earth crowd
ing together and confusion of tongues the mothers
talked. There orthodox Jewesses loyal to the
Hebrew traditions that at marriage they had shaved
their heads and donned wigs, talking family affairs
in mixture of English and Yiddished German with
the 3Krist" nurse.
A young Italian woman brought her baby and its
grandmother bright-eyed little woman with dangling
earrings who still claimed authority her married
daughter, traied in after her. Sometimes the older
woman nodded, oftener she shook her head at the
nurses Instructions bue there her tiny grand
daughter fattenng vsby before her eyes, and she sub
mitted reluctantly to these bathngs, the removal
of swaddng Clothes the separate bed and the feelings
by c1ockwork that had produced it.
every day in the water! Mein GoM is the child
fish? Have not reached forty years? 1t is true Ma
dame! Do 20 mneself in the water? No! Shall not
the child become sodden in the hesh?"
The child's mother also protested gently, and the
nurse gave vigorous lecture the daily bath
dts all right" she told after they had gone II
have to go through this little every time they
come; but it's evident that the baby gets her bath reg
arly. think they consider it of the conditions of
their getting the milk, and perhaps it's just WELL"
THERE was another grand parent in the depot, old
with his tiny grandson in his The baby's
mother dead, and the father, day 1aborer, had
given it into the care of this old man who was past
work. Oh, such poor dirty little mite! Evidently the
grandfather not clever either with needle wash
tub for the baby merely wrapped in soiled rags
This his first VISIT and the began to ask ques
tons and give instructions.
all come and see you this afternoon" she assured
him he left.
Il wonder if are in time with that baby?' she said
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