Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-03
ARE SPECIAL GUESTS
| TO WITNESS AP[AY
Many Children and Mothers
See Performance of the
PIayIet milk" at Keith's.
| INFANT WELFARE WORK
| is PORTRAYED IN COMEDY
Miss Clayton Talks About the Little
Mothers League-Dr. Wood.
ward Also Speaks.
INFANT WELFARE WORK

find there a moving picture man ready
to take their pictures-and a govern
ment moving picture man at that-to
be welcomed by the theater manager
and District officials, to see show, to
have the leading lady make a speech to
them and then to ride home again in
the big "rubber-neck" wagons
But that is just what happened today
to hundreds of children and mothers of
the Margaret Wilson Social Center of
the Grover Cleveland School, when they
were special guests at the performance
of Miss Una Claytons comedy playlet,
Milk" a t Keiths Theater.
Feature Of Weeks Campaign.
This play is being made the center of
a weeks campaign by agencies inter
ested in child welfare to preach the
gospel of a pure milk supply And the
Margaret Wilson Social Center mothers
and children were specially invited
guests because they have already start
ed the kind of infant-care work that it
is hoped will spread all over the city,
and because they are expected to be
missionaries in this baby conservation
campaign.
DR.. William C. Woodward. the Dis
trict health officer; Manager Robbins
of Keith's Theater, Miss CLAYTON. the
actress; Miss Estelle L. Wheeler, super
lntendent of the Washington Diet
kltchen Association: Mrs Max West of
the child labor bureau and other prom
lnent persons met the little army from
the social center at the theater, when
they arrived under the guidance of
Miss Frances Farley, principal of the
school. and Miss Cecil B. Norton, di-
rector of the social center.
AT the close of Miss Clayton's sct
she came to the footlights and gave
a real heart-to- heart talk. She told
them Of the Little Mothers League"
ITS purposes, what it is doing to save
the lives of children by the thousands,
and urged them all to spread the good
work.
DR.. Woodward Counsels Mothers.
DR., Woodward also spoke briefly, i'm
pressing upon the mothers and the
older girls that the lives of the babies
are often in their hands and that by
care they can save many of these lives
and give the baby start toward a
vigorous, healthy and helpful after
life
DIR. Woodward was to have started
the the campaisn at the matinee yester-
unavoldably detained. and Mrs Max
west or the Childrens Bureau spoke
TO the audience in his stead. outlining
n.
the value of pure milk and describing
the infant welfare work that has heen
done in Washington
ivan c. Weld. bacteriologist for one
. oi tne largest milk supply stations in
the city, spoke at the matinee perform
ance this afternoon on The Consumers
Part in the Better Milk Campaign"
Demonstration by Nurses.
While from the stage and in the lobby
this propaganda is being preached.
there is visual demonstration of in
FAINT welfare work being carried on in
the theater lounge, where lessons in
the care of the children is given by
trained nurses, and where better
baby" contest is in progress. By charts
the sources of disease and impurity in
milk are shown and by actual demon
strations of sterilizing bottles, modify
ing milk. etc, the mothers are taught
how to guard as far as possible against
these impurities.
Those in charge of the station this
afternoon are: Mrs. Louis c. Ecker,
ton diet kitchen; Miss Grace L. Ander-
son of No. children's welfare station,
and Miss Grace Hilyer of the prenatal
work department of the diet kitchen.
Baby Contest Begins Tomorrow.
A few babies have been weighed,
measured and their physical develop
ment charted, because mothers had
brought them in. but the better baby
contest really commences tomorrow
at the matinee and will continue every
afternoon for the rest of the week.
There also is to be a demonstration
by the little mothers" for classes in
the care of babies have been started
among girls from ten to fourteen
years of age at three of the infant
welfare stations in Washington. and
the leaders in welfare work believe
that this demonstration will bring
home to many mothers the evils of
impure milk and warn them to exer-
else the greatest possible care.