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New-York tribune., 1913-08-31

"she pulled my Eddie through the
measles and then pneumonia declared
another grateful mother she sat up
nights with him and worked days here IN
the milk station till she tainted away
from being worn out.
Even the Ice man had his word OF ap-
probation. Pausing moment as ne tug
ged huge piece OF ice through the door
way. he commented: II know a lot OF
folks who think they work hard, put
don't know nobody I'm this city VINO works
Ike Miss Parker does Shas always on
the job. I'd tell her To quit II | dlon
see what lot of folks there Is that
couldn't do without her / guess she's al
ways been helping folks in trouble. The
other morning | found fellow here hunt
ing for her lie said that eleven years
ago when he was kid, mother died of a
cancer She was "A poor janitress and had
lot OF youngsters. Who took care OF
her? Just Miss Parker, and she stood by
til IL was all over. Never cent OF pay
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
A RESTING PLACE FOR MOTHERS

Il took an option on "A tract OF lana
between the Great South Bay and the
ocean," she said. 1T seemed "A favorable
spot. and We didn't want TO LET the op-
portunty slip by Some one was needed
10 fulfil the necessary legal requirements
in order to get the option, and as was
at hand and Interested | assumed that
responsibility. Soon an erroneous state
ment gained circulation that ! was back
Of the whole movement and intended
building the home with my own funds.
This is not true. / acted only for the
organization which IL back Of the whole
movement and later expects to take up
the land and build upon it,"
Pressed as 10 whether or not the idea
was in reality one that she had evolved,
she modostly refused 10 appropriate any
credit
IL am intensely interested" she de-
clared, but l really wish to take no
prominent part. lead a very quiet life.
! haven't the strength TO do otherwise.
The whole credit belongs 10 Miss Parker,
who has spent her life working for the
babies. /. is a splendid charity. Think Of
what such work means for country!
You understand. we are not seeking out
the riffraff. We are looking for the best
type Of mother the woman who Will
bring up her family well, but whose in
come makes It impossible for her TO have
the proper care at this time. In this coun-
try home mothers will find change Of air
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
AHHIe Aa0u1 MsI 60sHI <017s2ke 5ocaCIYe2z5 "
IH;c1 RzakzuSsZAeo1 Of 1yunHc /o0azT co1"ecF

, "Do the mothers themselves realize the
inheritance of this work." was asked
Mothers of whatever class, arc quite
similar" Miss Parker rejoined. "They
think they can deny themselves food II
there isn't abundance for all. The more
ignorant the mother. the more difficult II
is TO make her realize that her chllh
must be as carefully nourished before
as after birth. II takes a great deal OF
education, coupled with the practical help
Of our restaurants, 10 overcome this.
Food and money. as well a. the neces-
sary utensils for preparing the food are
being supplied by contribution. Members
of the faculty OF City College and Co
lumbia University are interested and have
helped financially. Some public spirited
store proprietors have contributed food
stuffs Many other philanthropic men
and women have responded 10 tho ap-
peal. among them Mrs Julian Heath, ~
the Housewives League. Every effort Is
made To prevent paurerizing the patrons
of the restaurant. The meals are given
away only i'm cases Of proved need.
Mrs. Sayre's interest in the work Is In
tense As the caller listened to tins
gracious hostess. Il was easy To forget
that she must be past threescore years
and ten. Sitting erect In her straight
back chair. her expressive dark eyes
akindie she told OF the plan TO build 4
big country home as resting place tor
women who could not otherwise AFFORD
such an outing Here they can 70 and
spend a few weeks before the birth or
their children. freed from the gruellins
work that so often means death or help
less misery TO their offspring.
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31

neither The chap said he never knew
What had become OF her till ne saw
something about this place IN the papers
He lust wanted to see her once more ana
thank her. She's an awful little womah'
but she's got an awful big heart Shes
got T. lot OF grit, too, TO stick on SUCH a
lob as this. specially when there alnt
no money In It."
The tee man didn't know that the "aw-
ful little woman with the awful big heart
ia the IRA nd niece of an earl ard that her
family belongs to the English aristocracy.
Miss Parker never talks about that. Her
pride lies solely in her work Her father'
la nes Boyd Parker was born in England
and educated at Trinity College, Us De-
fitted a younger son I'm an aristocratlc
family Of wealth. His love OF adventure
and political ideals carried him into the
Crimean War, where he gained some
honors Then he came to America only 10
become once more d soldier in our CiVil
War. When the war ended he settled in
New York City, where he and his Quaker
bride became friends of many oil the
leading families of the time. Here their
daughter, Mabel, was born.
The child developed most pronounced
notions Of democracy. She would accept
no cut and dried ideals of social prestige
She so far outdistanced her father $
broad minded views of social RESPONSE
bilty that she was regarded by her ram
ily Az one having notions too advanced.
About this time her father lost his money.
70 the impressionable mind OF the sri
IL seemed proof OF a curse following
blot on the family escutcheon. TWO gen
eratlons before one Of her family owned
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31

Not a little humor, and some sudden
calamity. developed during the ny
swattirg campaign OF 1912. And the fly
didn't have close monopoly on the
gloom stunts. either. Sundry human be-
ings incidentally fell heir TO a men
tionable part In the lines OF tragedy as
well.
The fy swatters did great service
TO the country; If in no other way, then
by attracting attention to the danger In
tolerating the pest There are (also
were) number OF last years crusaders,
however. who will not enlist In the cam
paisn OF 1914.
A few OF these are the unfortunates
whose names are enrolled among those
who fell I'm battle. The others, as a
matter OF personal preference, and by
reason OF painful experience. will elect
hereafter to adopt long range methods
OF hy-swatting.
A boy scout IN Kansas suburb got
fiy and hornets nest at one swat.
He was very sorry-very! Count him
among the ex-swatters for 1918.
Last August. at Sherbrooke. Canada,
four boys poured oil over their catch
In a swat-the-hy contest in order to
burn them. All the boys caught fire and
one died from his injuries. Three OF
these boys will try drowning them this
year.
A man In Philadelphia woke up
mumbled something In Quakerese.
scratched a hairless spot on top Of his
head, grasped IA desk pad and made a
wild swing at a ny. He missed the ny
and fell out OF a fifth story window
There may be no flies to swat where he
is now.
An enthusiastic youth In Seattle. where
the anti-hy crusade was especially active,
essayed a swat, lost his toe hold In a
long reach and landed, just below his
suspender fastenings squarely In the
centre of baking-day stove. He didn't
stay there long enough to interfere with
the baking.
A well defined portion OF his trousers.
however, remained on the stove. The
odor Of burning cloth called his mother
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31

upon the scene. She called the doctor
II took him several days 10 complete
the Job OF skin-grafting he found await
ing him. Young Master Seattle will do
this years swatting with bean shooter
A young lady stenographer i'm the
County Treasurer's Office at Logansport,
Ind. misjudged her distance In swing
slipped off her chair and-tinished the
days swatting standing up.
There was the Boston lad who guessed
wrong on a low fly and side-swiped a
streak OF high-voltage electricity in the
form OF stubby tail attached to sixty
horsepower bulldog. Boy and dog were
very soon closely attached to each other
1t WAS not a friendly attachment, so far
as the boy was concerned nor the dog
either.
The boy was willing TO sever their con-
nectons on a compromise The dog held
a different notion: also a combination OF
boy and knickers. After the townspeople
finally succeeded in separating them there
was urgent need OF a surgeon and
tailor Hereafter this boy will probably
do his fly-swatting by absent treatment
There was the Boy Scout In the Wash
ington crusade He was busily engaged
In swatting flies about the outdoor
market stands With trained and watch
ful eve he detected an enemy in the
ofiing. Calamity and all unafraid he
advanced. charged for a strike and
slipped on banana peel.
The fly escaped not so the boy. The
sharp pointed edge of his wire swatter
had rudely tickled a full grown mule
In the after mechanism. with the usual
results.
The boy was rescued alive with diff
Guilty by hastily organized relief corps.
His recovery was announced late In the
fall. He did well to come out of 1t whole.
even II he is shy one ear and little
finger. This season he will claim i'm
munity as veteran and watch others
swat--at a safe distance.
Worcester Mass. aspres to a claim
upon two notables-Professor "Fly-Trap''
Hodge and the worlds champion fly
swatter who made his record by breed
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
DDCMATM RESTA RANTS TO NOURIS4 EXPECIANI MOlFEF&
Mrs. Robert H. Saye and Miss Mabe
Parker Plan Chain Of Such Eating Places
in This City, and Also Country
Home Where Women and
Their Coming Offspring
Will Gain Vigor.

atone for the wrong by being OF use %
the sick and the poor. when barely
twenty. though her father had partly
retrieved his fortune. she insisted on be-
coming nurse. The entreaties Of
suitor, en- Austrian ncblenan, favored By
her family, were OF no avail. The family
pride received a terrible blow, but their
daughter was not to be turned from her
course
Her experience in general nursing took
her ell over the city. Gradually how
ever, her interest centred In Harlem and
its rapidly growing tenement house life
She was the first independent social
worker in that section, spending all her
time and money upon those needing help.
Studying social needs as she went she
concluded that the best way to help the
city was to save the babies. Babies be-
came her ruling passion. The milk sta
ton movement was just beginning In Its
present FORM though there was no such
institution in Harlem or The Bronx She
took her own small savings and struggled
TO establish one. After great effort she
interested others and her dream came
true. Funds ran out and her place had
to no closed. -Four times she has opened
the doors of a milk station to the poor
mothers of Harlem only to be forced to
close up again eventually by lack OF
funds. At one time she managed to keep
her station open by making jelly at home
afternoons and nights and selling IT, She
has been penniless, sick and hungry,
shabbily dressed, but she has kept on
working for the babies. She hasn't much
money yet for carrying on her work, but
she has a big idea and enough confidence
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
SOME CASUALTIES OF FLY SWATllNG

ing his flies on garbage heap anu
catching them with the professor usps,
Il was there also that the ooO',
prize was won by lad when ne h's'e.
a fly in the garret of his nome 'o's
loose and so tangled the electric Wins
that il caused short circuit VIM.
started a hre that came near pu' '""'
the house down. Next summers VI ~,
swatting i'm that house will be dohe VIZ. ~
one of the professors catch e"-a"''
traps. c,,.
A young girl fiy-swatting IN
cinnati meat market slipped on
floor and lost a long braid oi nan n,
a power frankfurter machine IL "as :,
her own hair II you happen 10 eo"a
with any of il at summer resoi' sss
season, please send 1t back 10 he''
wants To use il as fiy switch
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a vast, estate In Ireland. He may nave
been one OF the McCrearys, the GruoDs'
the Tates or the Boyds. for Miss Parker
is a kin OF all those aristocratic famihes'
She will not reveal the name SO deeply
does she feel the shame Of his deed.
on his estate was a fourishins little
village. An epidemic of cholera broke out
in il. Medical care was needed. Inc VIZ
layers didn't know how to cope with the
disease and they had no money to hire
nurses. The stricken people turned 10
their landlord for help. He refused 1t.
Those stricken died like flies. The sur
yiyors begged again for help. but the pitt
less master shut himself away in his
great house and refused TO listen. The
village was practically wiped out. so the
story ran. and so 1t was told 10 the inn
questionable little girl. AS she grew up
her belief became stronger that her fam
ily owed great debt TO humanity for the
lives lost I'm that country village. She
believed that she was the one who should
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
DISTINCTLY ABSURD.

Senator Smoot said OF a sugar 'O'''
fake the ether day:
why. the things as absurd as inc
story of the Roman waiter.
"A Boston girl. visiting Rome last sum
mer said To a waiter at the CAFE Ma
tionale in the Corso
Waiter, it was this cafe was II nv.
that Keats and Shelley used TO frequeh"
The waiter frowned. medltated INV
ment. then smiled joyfully, and said:
"'Ah. yes. TO he sure, siGnorlns' hes"
and Shelley There they are no"' s's
norma, the two fat men at the corn.'
table drinking beer and eating sua
berry tarts. The baldhead is Keats anu ~
the one with the long beard is Shelley.
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
A TEMPTING MEAL.

At noon twelve women came to the little
restaurant for their luncheon. There was
placed before them tempting menu, con-
sisting of beef bouillon, lamb casserole.
onions, peas, rice pudding and milk. 1t
was well cooked and daintiIy served. This
menu is varied from day to day. but II
is always equally good.
II was easy to see by study OF their
faces as they came I'm that one and all
regarded the slender nurse as n real friend
and no mere professional social worker.
What would We do without herr" ex-
claimed one.
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several times, as dog does, before lying
down.
He loved the moonlight and II seemed
to have a strange effect upon him. for
have often seen him bestir himself then
for the purpose Of hunting for feas. When
he would capture a flea at night in this
manner he never would destroy II, but
would sit and talk TO IL by the hour, en-
phasizing his remarks by upllfted finger,
as though he we're teaching child
Finally, he would set II free, with the say
ing, In Arabic: Let him who created you
kill you But an angry Arab is not al
ways so particular, and always has n
weapon handy in the knife that he carries
i'm his blouse for a razor.
Occasionally my negro would look at
me and then burst into laughter When
would ask him what amused him so IN
tensely ne would exclaim:
"'Oho! You are much older than me!
You will die before me! This seemed TO
give him never falling satisfaction.
PRIMITIVE MAN AT THE OPERA.
when / returned to Paris took him
with me TO a ballet at the opera house,
and when the leading lady came to the
footlights ne hid his face in apparent
shame. He'had always been used to see
ing women In Eastern garments and the
sight OF this lady startled him.
why do YOU not look at the staseY
asked him.
She is quite undressed. said he
But finally, he plucked up his courage
and when a basket of flowers was given
to her he exclaimed in a very loud tone:
"'Oh, what hat! But how will such
little woman wear such big one?'
when the audience applauded he was
frightened He thought that the star had
I'm some way offended them and that their
demonstration was preparatory to giving
her beating for not performing better.
After travelling for several years with
this curious companion Mr.. de Bernhoff
took UP others and now Is accompanied
by an adopted son who helps him with
his lectures and his work. The lecturer
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
FlABS ERGASTEO.

New York's high prices are eno0s IN.
flabbergast anybody" said Nat NJ
the actor. New
.Young Cornelius Husk came 10 w
York last month because pass zoo
given him. He stayed in New io'N lin
days. When he got back home 90, Il
they asked him what lie had seem lie
appeared that he had seen notf'"s'
had done no sightseeing whatever 400
What. Corn, cried his friends'
days in New York and never
thing?' IA YOU
"'Well. Corn Husk replied +,
think I was goin' TO pay - oay
room and not use 1t all the time'
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31

I<rF YOU want TO make a gentleman
YOU must begin a hundred years
l. before he is born" was the die
tum of the Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table two generations ago. however
much we may besssclined to modify that
Brahmanistic stattnent as we recede III
time from the heyciay of the New Eng
land blue stocking school and in space
from its geographical centre, no student
of social hygiene will question to-day the
doctrine that if you want to make
physically sound man you must peSln DC
fore he is born. Witness the almost uni
versal interest in the science Of eugenics
at the present time.
Two noble women of this city, belong
ing TO different generations, but OF the
same spiritual age in their interest III
vital affairs of the present moment, nave
lust undertaken a very practical appllca-
ton of this broad science, In form
never before undertaken in America.
Special attention has been called in the
last two years to the fact that fully one
third of the deaths of babies in New YORK
CITY have been due TO coneenitdl CAUSES
that is, to unhealthful conditions sur
rounding their mothers Immediately De-
fore their birth. A great many more
babies are enfeebled for life by the same
cause. Moreover. while deaths from
other causes were decreasing, those from
congental defects were on the increase
To meet this evil several organizations
have taken UP the education or eXpectant
mothers. with splendid results. II re-
manned for these women to act on the
principle that education without proper
food was of little avail, and that the only
way 10 insure such food TO ignorant and
impoverished tenement mothers was 10
supply it TO them at low cost. in clean,
well managed restaurants, outside their
tenement homes.
These two women are Mrs. Robert ii.
Sayre. soon to become the mother-in-law
of President Wilson's daughter, and Miss
Mabel Parker, a we'll known social
worker of this city. Beginning with one
little prenatal restaurant, just opened in
Miss Parker's Infant Milk Station IN
12jth street, they plan TO establish d
chain of these eating places for expectant
mothers all over the city and supplement
them with a big country home out on
Great South Bay, where these mothers
can go for a much needed change OF air
and a vacation before their babies are
born.
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
LECTURES AS WELL AS MEALS.

"Our restaurant will not end its work
with the serving OF meals At least once
a week lectures will be given, IN IAN
guage so simple that all may comprehend
and thereby these women will learn the
value of certain foods. They VIII learn
not only what they themselves should
eat. but what constitutes proper nour-
ishu1ent for their children. We go stlll
a step further, and teach them the prep
aration and care of foods in their own
homes.
New York City is spending vast sums
of money TO provide for malformed chill
dren, feeble-minded children, the tuber-
culous. the ansemie etc. | believe in the
alienation OF suffering; but haven't We
been a little like the man who never
mends a leaky roof, and when II rains
tries to make the best of "A bad matter
by covering the furniture? We have al
ways been patching up, more or less tenn
porarly. Why not provide for better
babies, healthier babies, by providing for
their mothers? Isn't 1t foolish to neglect
the mothers and then spend extra money
to care for the children. who have, in
many cases become public charges just
because they came into the world with
feeble bodies? ] don't believe we half
realize yet the close relationship between
malnutrition and cylme."
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
WHITED SEPUlCHRES'

George Ade. in the smoking room ~ =, :,
Imperator. praised Brieuxs play of
Avaries." or Damaged Goods, hat
There's good deal of truth III so,,t
Brieux SAYS" declared Mr.. Ade r.
most men being tarred with the
brush"
He smiled and added man
''The world holds a great many 80
in high esteem because they know " s.s
10 take the bait off the hook "i'n'''
getting caught"
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
Continued from third page.

called a Navacha, and is propelled from
the sleeve with great force by a sudden
swing Of the arm. lie saw it coming, rs
he had been suspicious of his companion,
and was looking for something Of the
kind.
"I could run faster than he could .
said the lecturer, though he chased me
for nearly a mile. Finally we came upon
some people in a wagon. whereupon he
called out TO me in Spanish that he would
meet me again some time and disap-
peared into the woods. 1t is perhaps
needless to say that l have never again
encountered him. for which / am not
sorry"
From Spain the traveller went TO Africa
where he journeyed by foot, horse and
camel through Morocco, Algeria, Tunis
and across the Sahara Desert. 1t was In
Africa that he had his first companion-a
negro lad of sixteen or seventeen years
who had been brought up in IA French
missionary school and received monastc
training. This negro interested Mr. dc
Bernoff greatly. and he took him back
with him TO Europe when he returned,
travelling I'm his company for several
years.
A GIANT NEGRO FOR COMPANION
II wanted TO study a primitive man
who had been in contact with civiliza-
tion," he said, ''ard | thought that q
negro with a monastery training was an
interesting subject. He was handsome
fellow, nearly seven feet tall, so black
that you could not see him At night with
teeth like pearls and a physique that the
Apollo Belvidere might have reason to
envy. He was curiously primitive In many
ways and afforded nee infinite amusement
In studying him.
"One Of the ways that his nature showed
Itself was in his fear Of bed or SOFA.
lie never would sleep on either, always
preferrinR the floor, and when he was
ready 10 go TO sleep he would turn around
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
THE PRENATAL RESTAURANT.

The idea of this prenatal restaurant
and its management belongs TO Miss
Parker. who has gradually worked out
the plan from her own experience OF
years as nurse and social worker and
from suggestions she has CLEANED from
work of a somewhat similar nature in
Europe. She believes that the prenatal
restaurants here, as she would have them
carried on, will be an improvement over
those of the old country.
IF Germany. France and Scotland have
found the care of expectant mothers val
liable to the nation, such care is surely
worth while to the people of the United
States" quietly explained the tiny wom-
an who has the happy combination of
inasination and ability to carry out her
New-York tribune., 1913-08-31
Il GZz7uCe o0 o7e. cuc1er of Ike Ng halaZ RS0svsmk

, i'm its bigness to believe that peoPie WIN
help her carry il out.
The ice man is right. 'She is an a"tu'
little woman. but she has an aWtui 0'e
heart -