The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-03-23
BOWS BEFORE
AMERICAN BABY.
Baby Week to Be Observed by
Hundreds Of Cities and
VI Throughout
the Country.

IS royal highness the American
baby will have the entire ma
ton bowling before him during
the week March All. For that
fs baby week, and hundreds Of cities
and towns will devote seven full days
to the betterment. Of the country's
greatest asset-its babies.
Baby week begins Saturday, March
4, in Jewish synagogues as baby Sab
bath. The next day will be baby Sun
day in the Christian churches. and min
listers will preach on child conserva-
ton. Then throughout the week there
will be other features. including a
mothers day. a fathers day and 9th
ers.
Baby week is only two years old.
having originated in Chicago, but 1t
has spread all over the United States
and even to our insular possessions in
its 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 a state wide cam
paign In which especial emphasis was
placed on adequate nursing care and
instruction for prospective mothers. In
Nebraska q child welfare exhibit was
prepared by the women's clubs of Oma-
ha and Lincoln and will travel about
among the clubs throughout the state
after the baby week in those two cities
Is over. One town in Maryland is go
ing to have a birth registration day
and announces that an enterprising
merchant has promised to give a tooth,
brush to every mother who goes to the
city hail to find out whether her baby's
birth is registered. Another communi-
ty is having a competition for the clev,
crest window plan for baby week pub,
licity.
Many leaders in the movement hold
that the registration of babies is one
of the most important features of the
different campaigns and have pointed
to many instances where lax methods
have caused much trouble.
Birth Record, a Box Of Cigars!
When a young woman waHted to go
to Europe as a nurse and applied for
her passport she was told that she
must furnish Official information of her
birth. with the date, place and parents
names. She wrote to her home city
for a copy of the official record. but it
'transpired that her birth had never
been recorded. The physician who had
attended her mother is no longer liv.
ing. and the only available record was
found in the following newspaper item.
under date Of Monday. July 16. 1894:
A baby girl made her appearance Sat-
urday morning at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. -. In consequence a box of cigars
made it's appearance at the Republican Of
flee last evening.
The life Of a wealthy New Yorker
who was under sentence of death in
1 London on the charge of being a spy
depended on the Official record of his
birth. No other proof of his American
citizenship would satisfy the British
(:authorities. but examination of the
birth records in New York disclosed
the fact that his birth had never been
recorded. Fortunately 1t was possible
TO procure af1davits from the physician
who attended at the birth of the con
demned man and from two citizens
who knew his parents at the time, and
by special arrangement 1T was possible
to save his life.
A farmer in Indiana left his valuable
farm in trust to his unthrifty son. to
go to his granddaughter ON her twen-
ty-irst birthday. When she believed
she was twenty-one and claimed her
Inheritance. her father disputed her
age and declared she was only nine
teen. The family Bible was consulted.
but the leaf of the record was gone.
The court was in a quandary. At last
q neighbor remembered that a valuable
COW belonging to the grandfather had
given birth to a calf on the day that
the girl was born. and he could swear
to the coincidence.
Perhaps the grandfather had record-
ed the date of the birth Of the CALI.
His farm books showed that he had
done so. and the date of the birth of
the girl was thus established. This
story has a cheerful ending. In too
many instances hardship and loss have