The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-04
CO-CARTS TO co?
Uncomfortable Baby Carriages
to Be Banished in Kansas.
They Will Be Condemned at
Kansas Baby Week.
SHOW BEGINS TOMORROW
More Than 200 Babies Regis
tered at City Hall.
Scoring Will Begin Tomorrow
Morning at 10 O'Clock.

Springless straightforward go-carts
the little two wheeled baby Venlcles
which are seen by the dozen every day
on Kansas avenue-are to be Dan1sneu
by those who are engineering the bet
ter babies crusade in Kansas. The
little carts will be condemned this
week-KanSas baby week-whlch is
to be observed. beginning tomorrow,
at the city auditorium with better
babies show.
In explaining this move Dr. Lydia
A. DeVilbiss says: The carts are
without springs which makes the
youngster uncomfortable. They have
no foot rests. Imagine grown per-
son sitting for hours at time with
feet unable to touch the floor or rest
on something.
Babies get tired in public quicker
than grown persons. Their carriages
should be large enough for them to
lie full length in comfortable posi-
ton. In the face of all this, hundreds
of mothers will haul their babies all
over town in these uncomfortable
carts and wonder what is the matter
with them the next day"
Proper Baby Furniture.
The Punishment of go-carts will be
explained in exhibits which will open
tomorrow at the auditorium. In adj
dition to the go-carts and carriages a
complete exhibit of baby furniture will
proper styles. There will be plenty
of nurses to answer questions of
mothers.
Every evening from one-half to an
hours time will be consumed in the
showing of moving pictures.
The pictures are furnished by Kan
sas university, the Cincinnati city
board of health, and the bureau of
proper feeding, child hygiene, tuber-
culosis and dozens of other themes
will be dealth with. For these pic
lures the city officials have erected a
permanent moving picture machine
booth in the auditorium.
Officials of the show also announce
that the pipe organ will be in excel
lent condition. An expert from Kan
sas City was working on the big in
strument all day today.
Scoring of Babies.
Scoring of the babies will begin to-
morrow at 10 o'clock. Nearly 200
babies have been registered at the To-
peka Public Health Nursing associa-
ton.
Doctors Brown, Owen, Alexander.
Beasley, Menninger, Marshall, Bill
lings, Mills, Sans. Joss, Floo, Wedding.
Wehe, McDonough and Lovelandz will
have charge of the physical examina-
ton. Doctors Owen, Magee, Williams,
Allen and West will be the eye, ear
examinations will be made by Doctors
Reid, Putnam, Coston, Carpenter, Nc
Carter. Mertz, Roster and Herr.
kindergarten experts have been OBJ
tanned to make the mental examina-
tions. They are Mrs. F. w. Lyman,
Lois Lindsay, Mrs H. B. Lautz, Mrs.
o. s. Owen, Mrs. J. G. Stricken, Har-
riet Thompson. Mabel Bartholomew
and Lulu Mckee.
Tomorrow's program at the audi
forum is as follows:
Afternoon, 2:45 O'Clock.
Organ selection-Miss Goldie Smith.
''Why Baby Week'-Dr. Lydia AL
len DeVilbiSs.
Necessity of Correct Feeding''-Dr.
L. ". Sans.
.sDental Hygiene for Children''-Dr.
r. A. Rooster.
Evening. O'Clock.
Robert Stone, speaker of the house,
chairman
Organ selection-Professor Horace