Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

the last ten-year period between the de-
cennial census takings shows that. I'M
known by any public record for the most
part. at least 2.5.G000 young things have
come into life and gone out again. not
one of them staying twelvemonth.
And when are told by the best
sanitarians of this country and Europe
that at least half this waste is need
less. and comes from our failure to
apply methods of preservation which
we well know and understand as indi-
viduals and communities. are we not
challenged 70 a great national study
of why babies die?
at is true. other questions crowd us
hard. The correspondence in our office
is as various as the life of the coun-
trI-questions as TO recreation. as to
labor. as to the management or 1uVe-
nile courts. as to the methods or Sc
curing a mothers care for her chill
dren as to legislat ion, pour in upon us.
With the small force and appropri
alton available. the beginnings OF the
inquiry into infant mortality, the nrg-
ing of uniform registration of the births
Of all children as incidental thereto. the
carrying on of the correspondence. the
prepa ring of popular monographs on
various practical matters relating 10
children and the daily scanning or the
periodical literature of the world per
tanning to children-theSe activities
must form our present program.
Guests at the Banquet.
Among those present We're: Miss Julia
c. T.at;,roD. Miss Fske. l.. F.. Reed,
Cha,,in b Bauman Miss +. E. Grahame.
c. e. Billings. Mrs. {. G. Billings. Mr.. and
Mrs H. y Fisher Mrs. George A. Mad
dox George 4. Maddox. Rev. James II.
TAYLOR. CHIEF Justice Peelle. Miss Nogt.
John w WEIGH. Charles G. Fenwick. Mr..
and Mrs. William l.. Symons. Miss Elsie
y. Moores. Miss Dorothy NJ. Crossley.
Miss Hazel Willhoit. Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ton NJ PERKS. Miss Wilson. Miss Burns.
Miss j. A. Smell. Roscoe ]. c. Dorsey.
Mr. and Mrs Paca Oberln. Miss May
Wright. Col. J. William Palmer. George
kearney, Lewis ID. Peppler. Miss Salhe
V Lacy. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. Hegarty'
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin G. Dutton, Mrs
Anna Jenness Miller, Miss keech:
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. MIR. and
Mrs. c. H. Gray Dean. Mr.. and Mrs An
drew Wilson. Mrs. Isabelle 7. Bagley,
Miss Martha Fitzpatrick. Miss Alice fitz-
patrick. Il. W. Murch. Miss Janet Nc
William. Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Smith,
Alfred D. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. George II.
Macdonald. Miss G. F. Sinclair, Miss Lii
liam NJ. Benson. T.. &. Smith. Z. l.. Ben
son. Mrs Lawrence, Miss Evils Waters,
G. W. S. Musgrave. A. Johnson. Miss
Swenson. Mrs. Marie Smith. Mr.. and Mrs.
W. p Borland. Miss Anna May Borland.
Mr.. and Mrs H. f. Williams Miss Mar.
iory A. Weaver Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
vannoli. Justice J. A. Van Orsdel. Justice
Thomas II. Anderson. Miss Harriet Free
by. Miss Amy Eoppxan, c. Hugh Duffy,
Miss A. Kinney. Messrs. J. s. and W. A.
Kinney. Mrs. Mary F. Crenshaw: A. 6.
Lazenby. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin c: Bran
denburg. Mr.. William Clark Taylor. Mr..
J. Newton Baker. Mrs. r. w. Grafton.
Miss Davis, Mr.. Thomas L. Sloan, Mrs
Froelander, Mr. William NJ. Peterson. Mr..
men.
Students-Miss Hettie b. Bell. Herbert
L. Davis, Miss Elizabeth NJ. Eggert, Miss
Emma F. Hayward, Benjamin A. Har-
Ian, Lawrence Holman, Miss Agnes A.
Jones. Middleton G. Kennedy. Miss Mar
tina NJ. Krumke, Miss Anna O'Neill. F.
A Pauline. Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin c. Reed.
Carl s. Risvold. Miss Kathryn Sellars.
Miss Adele V. Smith, Miss Scotia 5.
Stark, Miss Hope K. Thompson. Robert
c. Tracy. Miss Eunice X. Warner. Miss
Elizabeth I. Weaver, Harry II. Without.
Herbert b. Andrew. Mrs. Sarah T. An
drew. Mrs. Lillian Cox Athey. Miss
Helena DOGGY, Harry Giovanno!i.
James P. Greeley. Harry J: Croft,
d. Curtis Hall. William S. Hammers,
Harry J. Hayden. Christian F. Himmler,
w. Clarence HOughtelin, Frank huston.
julius A. Kaiser John NJ King, Miss
Sue NJ. Lacy. Miss Ethel l.. Lawrence.
Donald A. Macdonald, Miss Agnes Nc
Garraghy, Miss Bess Melton, Miss Eff
fie NJ. Miller Edwin A. Moores. Abra-
ham Press, ]. Homer Smith, Chauncey
d. Snow, Miss Adele NJ. Stewart. Albert
Temple. Miss May d. Trader. Dana
White. IT, Henry c. Wilson. Miss
Eunice w Wright. Miss Antoinette
Avery, Mrs. Marie L. b. Baldwin. Miss
Sarah NJ. Benson, Ebert K. Burlew.
Harry p Davis. Miss Lulu L. Eckman.
Herbert A. Engler Norris l.. Friedman.
Ebert c. Gearhart. Miss Ruth L.
Halrenny. Miss Lydia Hendrickson,
Miss Mabel r.. Hogan. Miss Amanda F.
Mccall, Harold Miner, Miss Frances n.
Osburn, John F. Porter. Mrs. Helen S.
Rapley. William T. Robey, Miss Edna ].
Sheehy, Miss Mary Annia Sinclair. Miss
Margaret Stewart Miss Susan NJ. Slye.
w. w. Tobin. Miss Phoebe f. Tyrrell.
Mrs. Nellie W. Webb. l.. a. White. Mrs
Anna B. Windle and DIR. w. NJ. Wooster
Alumni-Miss Florence Etheridge, Miss
Rebecca Blaine, B. Franklin Smith. Mrs
Margaret c. Lohr. Miss Helen Hill, Miss
Sheldon Jackson Mrs. Margaret Hopkins
Worrell, Miss Gertrude e. Leonard. Miss
Florence A. Colford. Miss Ethel NJ. Col
ford Mrs James f. Smith. Miss Fannie
1. Peter. Miss Anne e. Draper and Miss
Helen T.. Janlison.