Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
SHOW v.
GETS SOCIETY
GIRLS AID
Atlanta Young Women To Be
Guides and Lecturers When
Big Exhibition Comes Here.

Fifty of Atlanta's leading society
eirls will serve as guides and lectur-
srs during the display the Health
and Child Welfare exhibit of the
Russell Sage Foundation and the Ma
tonal Child Welfare Exhibiting Com
mIttee, which will be shown in At
lan+a from November "a to Decem-
per 10, under the auspices of the
Associated Charities.
The exhibit is the same shown at
ne National Conservation Exposition
IN Knoxville recently, and is consid-
cred one of the largest and most
complete in the United States.
Joseph C. Logan, secretary of the
charities, through whose efforts the
exhibit was obtained, has called a
meeting of Atlanta women for Friday
afternoon in the First Baptist Church,
10 complete the details of the exhibit
ton.
A school of instruction to train the
girls who will serve as guides during
The show probably will be started as
soon as Miss Ellen c. Babbitt, of the
Russell Sage Foundation, who will
have charge of the exhibit, arrives in
Atlanta
Women Promise Aid.
Mr. Logan said Wednesday morn
ing that the guides will include
practically all of the seasons debu-
rantes. They will be taught the
meaning of the charts and maps and
the models by Miss Rabbit, and they
have promised to be on duty every
day to explain the exhibit to visitors.
Though it was mostly through Mr..
Logan's individual efforts that the
exhibit is to come to Atlanta, he has
the aid and Endorsement of virtually
every civic organization in Atlanta
in the movement, and prominent At
lanta women have volunteered to help
o the limit of their ability in making
he exhibit a success.
The Civic Federation of Women's
Clubs was one of the first organlza-
tons to get behind Mr.. Logan in the
move to bring the exhibit here, and
the organization has promised to in
terest, as far as possible, every wom-
an in the city.
Pupils to See Exhibit.
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement has also pledged it's sup
port and will endeavor to interest
the ministers of the city and the
churches in the display. 1t is proba-
bic that a campaign of pulpit public
ty will be given the exhibit in the
hope of attracting mothers to the
exhibit.
Superintendent William Slaton Of
he public schools is interested in the
exhibit, and will endeavor to evolve
a plan whereby every school boy and
girl in the city may see the exhibit
and hear the lectures by the guides
and by Miss Rabbit.
The exhibit is so large that prepa-
rations have been begun for its pack
ing and transportation to Atlanta.
There will be more than one thousand
departments in the display.
The exhibit is primarily for the
purpose of training mothers along
hygienic lines, and instructing them
how to properly care for their chill
dren.
Charts and maps, prepared by ex-
perts after a long study of child life,
will be shown and explained, depict
ing the life of the child from infancy
to the stage where it is able to care
for itself
The charts will show the rate OF
infant mortality all over the country
the proper diet necessary to insure
the child against sickness and the
thousand and one things that all
mothers should know.