The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-08
BABY WEEK SHOW
!. DRAWS HUNDREDS
First Day Of Exhibit Of Proper
Care Of Child Starts Auspic-
iousIy.
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feed milk to-. babies. Mrs. Sara X.
Lamber had charge OF this feature.
suppose you were a baby, ts the
admonition on one bit OF printed lit.
you can easily do that for the exhibit
until the time It is well through a
grade school. vv
In the Day Nursery.
In charge OF a day nursery and bed
room for the baby In Mrs. Emma w.
Matthews. Then the Washington Diet
Kitchen Association has a booth adJoin-
ing this showing proper methods OF pre-
pairing FOOL.
which consists Of a box. packed with
saw dust, with tin receptacle for the
milk bottle In the center. In an inter-
Getting feature OF the pure milk exhibit
OF 1.-THE The Twentieth Century Club.
easily can be made by anyone who can
drive a nail. Then there IL receptacle.
made from zinc. In which the milkman
may leave milk. and II will not spoil
fury Clubs booth Ii In charge OF Mrs.
Gilbert Grosvenor.
Mrs. Walter o. Woods. arranged an
extensive exhibit, also In connection
with. the Mothers Congress booth,
which shows proper clothing for chill.
dren and babies. In this merchants OF
Washington co-operated. They furnish
ed the clothes, and baby carriages, and
even toys which may be given a child
without entailing danger.
The w. G. T. Y. booth displays a sign
| which reads: The day OF soothing
syrups Is past Don't dope your baby"
popuiar brands Of .oot cot o sypups q
with an analysis by the Bureau of
Chemistry showing the alcohol, NOR
phine. and other opiates they contain.
DR.: Loretta Kress is responsible for this
A Model Kitchen.
There is model kitchen. contributed
by a Washington merchant. and q
model house, built for the Mothers
Congress. which embodies the essentials
to baby's happiness. cleanliness. quiet.
| ORDER
The National Committee on Child
| Labor has an exhibit showing the periis
| OF having young children work. There
are also picture charts showing what
may happen to children when mothers
must work. This il being used as an
argument for mothers pension legisla-
| ton.
Another interesting chart shows the
relation OF wages OF parents TO the
| death rate among children. This shows
dren whose fathers earn less than $40
| week: % per cent for those earning
| $40 to 81: 10 per cent for those earning
| from s12 to 81: and only per cent
| for those earning over 81.
One OF the most inviting features OF
| the exhibit Ia a rest room. In charge OF
Mrs. b. A. Leavell, where there are
| comfortable chairs for mothers ana
cribs for babies who become tired while
| their mothers are at the exhibit.
In this rest room there In an exhibit
| demonstrating the klnterSarten work I'm
the public schools. There also is a
kit in case any visitors become Ill
Effect Of Nurses Visit.
Large models Of rooms. actually ex-
listing in Washington. as they were
found before visiting nurses of the In
structive Visiting Nurse Society ar
nurses had been there day. are dis
Another small model shows a room
properly arranged for a mother, and
an outdoor sleeping porch equipment for
the home treatment Of tuberculosis.
strations to be given by the Montes-
sori classes. One group is from the free
Montessori school. the first free school
| of this kind In this country, at the
Friendship House. and a second is from
the Founding Home. On Saturday af-
by DR.. Montessori will be demonstrated
| by Miss Roberta Fletcher.
At $50 this afternoon there will be
| a demonstration by the Little Mothers
Club" OF the Washington Diet Kitchen
This evening the feature will be a play
School, under the direction OF Miss Cecil
B. Norton. The play is entitled Judith
and Ariel"