Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-07-16
. SAVE 4 BABY
Times Campaign To Save Toledo Ba-
bies in Full Swing-PracticalIy All
Northwestern Ohio Newspapers
Join in The Movement.

"The change of environments alone
for week or two will work wonders
for any puny city baby that may
be taken into the country" said DIR.
D. w. Iford, head of Toledo's health
in speaking of the Save
A-Baby a week campaign. The great
good that it will do the mother of
such baby, whether the baby is arti-
ficially fed or nurses the mother, is
sure also to result in a decided benefit
to the child. Sanitary and housing
conditions surrounding many of the
children of the less fortunate city
dwellers is one of the greatest draw
backs to the well-being of babies ac-
cording to DR.. Iford. 1t is often sur
prising what removal, even for brief
period, of a child from improper sur
roundings and the placing of it in the
right sort of environments will do in
even the most discouraging cases, de-
clared DR.. Iford. From week or two
in the country, either on farm or in
village, the most hopeless city
mother will get new and better view
of life. She will get new ideas of
living, housekeeping and management
of the home that will help her won
derfully in the future, no matter how
pinched may become her economic con-
dition. This. of course, will have a
benefcient effect on her children.
Just how the Save-A-Baby cam
paign appeals to one poor Toledo
mother is told in the plain, simple
language of the heart in letter re-
ceived by The Times Sunday night.
81 hope and | believe that many
good women-mothers- live in
the country will give places for a
week or two to some poor city mother
and her baby" writes this woman
who is the mother of three children,
the oldest of which is not yet 5.
"I am sure every country woman
young or old, married or single, would
do this for the poor women of the city
and their little babies if they really
knew how much good they would be
doing-if they could only see the
conditions that many of us poor
mothers struggle under and how our
hearts ache when we see our own
dear little ones pining away for want
of something that there is so much Of
in the world-fresh air."
The writer then states that she
has lost two babies in their "second
summer, when they could probably
have been saved if they were not the
offspring of poor parents"
The letter then tells of how hope
fully this mother and two other neigh.
Dor women with baby each, and ir
similar circumstances, look forward
to an opportunity of getting out int
I"God's green, fresh country, even fol
one week."
People in Toledo are responding te
the appeal by contributing money tt
meet the expenses of transportation
and it remains for those who live ii
country or in country towns to opel
their homes for these mothers ans
their babes. It is no trivial mattel
and those who do open their lome
F.; for a week or more to a mother ant
her babe are doing truly great work
Here is an opportunity to do rea
christian act; to practice religion
pure and undefiled and, "inasmucl
as ye have done it unto one of tn
least of these, nv bretheren ye hav
done it unto me-"
We realize that not every one VIII
has the will to help to save one o
these babies and to exert an infiuenc
for good in the lives of both mother
and children, is so situated that it i
possible for them to do so, but if yo
can even at the cost of some persona
sacrifice and inconvenience (the ap
peal is to you "In His Name"), fl
out the coupon below and send it i
to this office. 1t will be forwarded a
i once to The Toledo Times and 70
will be placed in communication wit
;, Toledo's health department.
Enlist me as an active member Q
the Save-A-Baby campaign. MY hom
is open to a mother and her babe fo
:. .weeks) in August, begir
ming on the ........ day of August
1915.
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