The Washington herald., 1915-08-09
HEALTHY BABIES
aim OF CRUSADE
Value of Pure Milk in Infant
Welfare Demonstrated in
+ Washington.
PLAYLET IS PRESENTED
Model Diet Kitchen Shows Mothers
Proper Way of Caring for
Little Ones.

By combining their efforts during the
past week. Miss Una Clayton. who pre-
sented her playIet. Milk" at Keith.
Theater, and the members of the Wash.
ington Diet Kitchen, the Grover Cleve-
land Social Center, and various public
spirited specialists. gave to Washington
a clear understanding of the value OF
pure milk in the rearing of babies.
Miss Clayton closed her week al
Keith's yesterday with two perform.
ances. though her performance should
be called scientific preachmert" in
stead of a mere playlet. 1t sketches the
evil which results from impurities In
milk, bringing together a fiint-hearted
milk magnate who tells his employees to
put water into their cans when the milk
runs short; a young newspaper writer
who sees and exposes these methods,
and a little girl Miss Clayton) whose
parents have died, but whose interest in
the welfare of other children smaller
than herself takes her to this magnate's
ONCE and, with the aid of the newspa-
per man and the illness of his own
grandchild. caused by drinking impure
milk, gets him to sign a pledge to sell
only pure milk thereafter.
Baby Saving Committee Aids.
The popularity. of Miss Clayton, the
lending Of their stage to the speakers
and actors in this cause by the manage
ment of Keith's, the station arranged at
the theater by the Washington Diet
Kitchen. and the special speakers who
urged the cause Of pure milk all tended
to make the week at Keiths an excel
lent victory for this cause. The Baby
Saving committee of the Children's Coun-
Gil also aided materially in bringing to
the attention of Washington's men.
women. and children this strong argu-
ment in favor of pure foods.
Miss Estelle Wheeler, of the Diet
Kitchen, had charge of the station at
Keith's, which was a model diet kitchen,
equipped with the paraphernalia for teach
ing mothers the proper way to care for
their babies and how to treat them for
minor illnesses. The SPEAKERS addressed
the audiences during the intermissions,
thus doing away with any Interruptions
in the program.
On Tuesday morning one thousand lit
tie girls and their mothers attended a
special performance Of the playlet. They
heard an address by DIR. William c.
Woodward. health officer of the District
who told them the proper way of feed
ing babies and impressed upon all Of
them the fact that the District pays
its physicians to answer any questions
where the health Of the people are con-
cerned. In the afternoon DR.. Ivan c.
Weld. bacteriologist of the George NJ.
Oyster dairies. spoke on THE Consum-
ers' Part in Better Milk Supply"
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley Speaks.
DIR. c. Hart Merriam, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. spoke on THE Re-
lation of Milk to Infant Mortality" On
Thursday DR.. Harvey W. Wiley talked
on THE Food Value of Milk In Its Re
lation to Better Babies"
Miss Clayton went to the Grover
Cleveland Social Center on Friday eve
ming and helped organize Washington
branch Of the Little Mothers League"
an organization which is fast becoming
popular in this country.
On Saturday the little mothers Of
the District took charge of the exhibit
station in the theater and showed the
people how to rear their children with
out any of the ordinary dangers which
have beset the ways of youngsters In
the past in this city.