The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-09-04
"None But the Nursing
Child 10 Reasonably
Sure Of Reaching the
Age Of One Year-The
Little One Should Be
Sucked Once in Three
Hours"

Fully three hundred mothoro. little
mothers and babies crowded the play
ground at Greenwich House. No. =
Jones street. yesterday aftarnoon. to
listen to the hrst Of course Of lectures
under the direction Of Garrett Smith. Ex-
ecutive Secretary Of the Babies welfare
Asso cdation. on the Care Of Childrea."
In the Better Babies Contest directed
BY The Evening World and Greenwich
House, 6s5 babies have been registsred-
Q banner enrolment. Green ich village
10 bubbiing over with excitement about
the competition. and each rival mother
10 looking sharply for the tips that may
enable her baby to carry OF one Of The
Evening Worlds money prisss. The
visiting specialist could hardly md
standing room on the hsrd-packed earth
floor Of the settlement house play
ground. 50 afraid were his listeners lest
they should miss something. He gave
special attention yesterday afternoon TO
the feeding Of the baby.
"Ths e.iy feoA for the SaSy y ~
death rate smenS small eAlldrs1 70
% Tremendous thss yol cant 80
most people - bslisvs II. AaA Ne
only safe wv q SslaSiAG ~ .
bety - 70 have Ne AotAss Aasss Il
The reason more mothers don't nurse
their babies 10 because they think they
can't Some relative. . sister or an
aunt or enthusiastically ne husoands
mother-tslis them they can't Even II
they are not given another piece Of In.
formation. they are sure 70 receive this
one Now. the truth 10 that . mother
can always nurse her baby. with two
or three exceptions. II she has con-
sumption or diabetes. Or some very sx-
hausting disease. che will perhaps BE-
unable to give her child its natural
food. But even II there 10 another baby
coming she can nurse the one In her
arms.
ONLY oNE-HALF THE MOTHERS
NURSE THEIR BABIES.
'Only about 80 par cent. Of the women
in Now York nurse their children; only
one out Of every two. II doesn't seem
nursing baby 10 reasonably sure Of
reaching the age Of one year. The In
dian mothers always nursed their chill
dren. and the infant mortality amonS
tho original Inhabitants Of this country
was extremely email. Under our pres
ont conditions Of life. frequently neither
mother nor baby sets square deal.
what mother here hasn't nurssd her
babyr' no demand ID suddenly. Hold
your baby up." he added. noddins in the
direction OF an appraised hand.
A rather small woman held up q
rather small and pale chNd.
How old l. ~"
Mine months"
And how much dos Il wsishr'
twelve pounds and thirteen ounces"
There you are" he triumphed. turn
ing TO the other women. "A baby nine
months old should weigh eishtssu
pounds. But this baby has been fed
on q bottle. This mother has . pretty
sood excuse. She says she has had
nvs operations. Still there are women. y
he addressed the mother again. WHO
have had Ave operations and who ~
manage to nurse their babies.
when you put the baby on . bottle
your trouble begins. BY the time It II
q yesr old q healthy. normal baby vii
have consumed from $50 to 3co quartz
of mink. or ~ worth. That's . goot
deal TO pay.
"Aftsr the baby 10 two weeks old