The Washington herald., 1913-12-19
WHO'S WHO AMONG
PROGRESSIVE WOMEN
Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley's Greatest Claim
to Distinction Lies in Her
Motherhood.
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Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley has at least two
claims to distinction. She is the wife OF
Dr. Wiley, OF pure food fame. and she Is
the mother of Harvey w. Wiley. Jr. In
the latter role she has done things which
will interest all other mothers.
Harvey, jr., is about eighteen months
old. His mother is about thirty years
old. And his father is sixty-nineI So
the Wiley family goes in pretty big
jumps. But the doctor doesn't look more
than fifty. And when he happens to be
showing of the baby, it's a toss-up
which OF the two Harveys seems the
younger.
When Harvey, jr.. was a year old
he weighed twenty-five pounds in his
skin and had fourteen teeth visible to
the observing eye. II didn't have to be
such q terribly observing eye either,
as the broad smile In which junior con-
tinualIy INDUCES makes 1t perfectly SIM
pie to count his teeth at any and all
times.
The wIleys spend much Of their time
on their farm at Bluemont. near WASH
ington. whence the doctor commutes
per electric car daily. In the summer
not In the wtnter-junior. as well as his
parents. sleeps out of doors. Mrs. Wiley
weaned the baby last spring and he
switched gradually to a diet OF modified
milk without, so to speak. turning q
hair. The milk came from a sanitary
farm. from tuberculin-tested cows, was
handled In a strictly sanitary manner,
and distributed from a perfectly sanitary
depot. This being the case, perhaps II
was cheap at twenty cents a quart.
Mrs. Wiley took this blameless bever-
age. turned II with her own hands into
the finished product, modified milk, {"
and Al For T., IL
during the fateful second summer just
passed. she gave the baby orange Juice,
oatmeal Jelly, oatmeal water, and occa-
sionally the yolk of an egg.
Now they have q COW of their own
at ''Grasslands. the Bluemont farm,
and in addition to attending personally
to the preparation OF the babys milk
and the cleansing OF the bottles. Mrs
Wiley threatens to learn how TO do even
the milking herself. Maybe Il seems as
IL she were taking a lot Of trouble over
Harvey, jr., but every ounce or him
radiates 'compensating health and hap
piness.
Next to the two Harveys. Mrs. wfley's
chief interest is suffrage. She was pres
ident Of the Stanton Suffrage Club In
Washington. But since the baby came
she has been content to be merely vice
president She is still, however. president
Of the Consumers League OF the Dis
trict Of Columbia
She does leave the baby once in a
while. Last March she Joined in the
suffrage parade which caused such q
countrywide stir because Of the failure
of the Washington police TO preserve
order in the crowds. But while she ap-
proved Of the suffrage hike" from New
York to Washington, her own most In
spiring efforts in the hiking line are
when she heads for Bluemont and baby
after she has been away from them q
few hours.
As for Harvey, jr., he has had one
quite extraordinary outing himself That
was on the occasion Of his first birth
day. His celebrated daddy took the aft
ernoon OF from work that day and de-
mapded the privilege Of caring for the
baby all by himself
No sooner was he in authority than ne
nut Junior into the perambulator and
wheeled him downtown to the Cosmos
Club. there to bask in the reflected glory
OF the admiration which the learned
members of that galaxy OF scientists law
ished upon his frst born. The baby was
promptly registered as the youngest
member of the club. That rather left
Mra wiley out in the cold. But some
how she didn't seem to care at all