The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-03-15

baby will have the entire ma.
ton bowling before him dxning
the week March Ali. Fer that
Is baby week, and hundreds sf cities
and towns win devote sersn faH DAYS
to the bettermeRt of the esnaeEy's
greatest asset-its babies.
Baby week begins Saturday. March
4. in Jewish synaSogues as baby Sab
bath. The next day will be baby sun
dag in the Christian churches, and min
listers will preach ON child conServa-
ton. Then throughout tho week there
will be other features, including
mothers day. fathers day and oth-
ers.
Baby week is emily TIVE years odd,
having originated in Chicago, bat it
has Spread all over the United States
ana leyen{to our insular possessions In
It's brief existence. A women's club in
the British West Indies has written to
the federal children's bureau for in
formation about what baby week
means and expects to initiate a local
campaign.The Philippines will like
wise take part in the celebrations
Alaska also is progressive. and even
the Indian, reservations in the west
have planned unique methods of teach
ing mothers how to improve the pa
pooses.
Wisconsin initiated state wide cam
paign in which especial emphasis was
placed on adequate nursing care and
instruction for prospective mothers In
Nebraska child welfare exhibit was
preps cd by the wemen's clubs of Oma-
ha and Lincoln and win trave, about
among the clubs throughout the state
after the baby week in those two cities
is over. One town in Maryland is 60
ing to have birth registration day
and announces. that an enteGpmSing
merchant has promised to give tooth
brush to every mother who goes to the
ity hall to find out whether her baby's
firth is registered. Another communi-
is having competition for the cev-
e windoY psan fer baby week pub
leaders in the movement hold
Inc registration Of babiesIis one
most important features OF the
- n campaigns and have pointed
Instances where lax methods
used much troHtle.
srrth Record, a Box Of Cigars!
When young women wanted to go
rope as nurse and applied for
passport she was told that she
furnish official information Of her
with the date. place and parents
IS. She wrote to her hOme city
copy Of the efIlciai record, but 1t
cd that her birth had never
rded. The physicisM who had
frea mother IL no longer liv-
1.-The only available record was
the following newspaper item,
ate Of Monday. July 16, 1884:
giia made her appearance SAT-
prning at the homo OF MIR. and
In consequence beK of cigars
S.Npearance at the Republican Of
,ssSPg-
No wealthy New Yorker
aAer ssnteRce of death in
&..enk change Of being spy
Ne Official record of his
ser proof OF his American
ren2uid satisfy the British
.,d examination of the
New York disclosed
81, .biFth had never been
WIN 'nate9 it was possible
ables Its ffom the physician
tegritythe birth Of the CON
publicl from two citizens
dence offs at the time, and
.tations. t it was possible
If you are
TON give G. ms valuable
ito you that it,, Ssr sJ twe ~
so long wishe, tho believed
per bottle claimed her
For sale by disputed her
HATLES D1as only nine
Ca Awas consulted.
ord was gone.
larry. At last
NIX s's''z'--aat valuable
rdfather had
lhe day that
could swear