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

Fifty of Atlanta's leading society
girls will serve as guides and lectur-
ers during the display c the Health
and Child Welfare exhibit of the
Russell Sage Foundation and the Ma
tional Child Welfare Exhibiting Com
mittee, which will be shown in At
lanta from November "a to Deem
, Der 10, under the auspices of the
Associated Charities.
The exhibit is the same shown at
the National Conservation Exposition
in Knoxville recently, and is consid-
cred one of the largest and most
complete in the United States
Joseph G. 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,
to complete the details Of the exhibit
ton.
A school of instruction to train the
girls who win serve as guides during
! the show probably win be started as
soon as Miss Ellen c. Rabbit, 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-
4 tantes. They will be taught the
meaning Of the charts and maps and
| the models by Miss Babbitt, and they
| have promised to be on duty every
| day to explain the exhibit to visitors.
Though il 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
to the limit of their ability in making
| the exhibit a success.
The Civic Federation of Women's
! Clubs was one of the first organiZa-
tons to set behind Mr. Logan in the
move To bring the exhibit here, and
! the organization has promised to in
| terest, as far as possible every WON
an in the city.
Pupils TO See Exhibit
The Men and Religion Forward
! Movement has also pledged its sup
port, and viii cndeavor To interest
the ministers of the city and the
| churches in the display 1t is proba-
! ble llldl y campaign OF pulpit pupllt-
! ity will he given the exhibit in the
! hope of attracting mothers to the
! exhibit.
! Superintendent William SlatOn OF
| the public schools is Interested in the
! exhibit. and will endeaVor to evolve
Il plan whereby every school boy ano
! girl in the city may see the exhibit
and hear the lectures by the guide,
and by Miss Babbitt.
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 ID primarily for the
! purpose of training mothers along
! hygienic lines, and instructins then
how to properly care for their chill
dren.
Charts and maps, prepared by eX-
perts after a long study N child life
will he shown and explained, depict
! ing the life Of the child from infancy
to the stage where it is able 10 care
| for itself
The charts will show the rate Oh
| infant mortality all over the country
the proper diet necessary TO insure
the child against sickness and the
thousand and one things that al
mothers should know.