The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-01
BETTER BEGINNING
FOR BABIES BORN
IN BENNINGTON
Baby Week" to Reduce Handi-
caps Of lnfantEntries
HELP FOR YOUNG MOTHERS
Local Matrons Will Hand Down Ex-
reriences for Benefit of Generations
That Are to Come.

Every human being and some others
engaged in life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness in Bennington and
vicinity, started life as a baby-I be-
lieye state the proposition correctly.
| But where the Constitution falls down
| necessitating such occurances as the
| United States Supreme Court, an in
! crease in armaments, Sheriff God
| irey's Entertainment Bureau and Uni
Versal Training, is in assuming that
| each of Jus were created equal AS a
matter OF fact, we are not created
equal. Some of us are born in sin.
and in iniquity did our mothers CON
celve us. Others are born in the bet
ter residential districts, such as Elm,
South or Washington streets or in
Old Bennington. Some of us are born
III litter. of a father that earns nine
dollars and eighty cents a week. the
neighbors being called in to help de-
eide which of us our parents shall
keep and which they shall drown.
Others come into the world with
pillow OF government bonds awaiting
our fiery pinfeathered heads and
when we shall have attained years of
indiscretion, we shall be led around
Europe in little velvet pants-that is,
If we are boys.
The point is, that all of us entered
the world in the usual way. but cir
cumstances over which we exercised
no control, shufiied some of us into
the silyer-spoon class to grow up sur
rounded by every care and comfort
ana eventually to drive bigh-power
motor cars and wear wrist watches.
Others of us were born of poor but
dishonest parents; wrapped in swad-
dling clothes on our arrival, made out
OF oid mackinaws and discarded un-
dershirts: stuffed with paregoric or
soothing syrup because a pin pricked
us and the neighbors ought to have
some sleep; offered as c. public dining
table for all the flies that paid half
the rent of the house; fed on milk
that resembled somewhat the sedi-
ment at the bottom of an emptied
tank of hokey-pokey ice cream on a
hot day; brought UP in house that
only has the windows open and Gods
pure fresh air let in when the col
iector for the installment furniture
loses his temper because he can't
make collections and commences fir
ing the stuff through the window with
out remembering to raise the sash.
Therefore of late years have various
assemblies of mothers who know their
business gathered themselves and vol
unteered to give some kindly hints to
those women less fortnnatef in their
occupations, on how to pnn'4he little
shavers through the younH"a and fem
der years. They are aetaated only
With the sincere desire to eass along
heir experience and their. Study to
other mothersAand tuapafticularly
voting mothers-that the Hopes and
ears and sufferings which accompany
he advent of a new human being into
he world, shall not be in vain. They
'nly desire that little Tommy Jones,
BORN in Possum Trot, shall, at least,
)e equal to little Tommy Jones of
commonwealth Avenue in health, if
lie cannot be in tutors and tricycles
tccent and the Montisorri method.
One day last month Bennington peo.
lie read little three line local:
'Born-To Mr.. and Mrs John Blank
II Doe street, SON. Only few
leighbors, relatives and friends paid
my attention to that notice. 1t was
'nly one of hundred that appear in
The Banner throughout the year.
That baby should be born to Mr.
md Mrs. John Blank of Doe street
vas the most natural thing in the
world, considering that a year pre-
1ously we had noted with more or
ess Indifference that Mr.. John Blank
md Miss Susie Peaches had been
married at the home of the brides
'arents and had the good wishes of a
lost of friends for a happy and sue
essful married life. But yesterday a
eporter went to the undertaker's
ooms on his daily round for items,
IeepiNy his finger on the pulse of the
community, and putting into hard me-
allie words the simple but awful lit
lie tragedies that make up our daily
living. And the undertaken said:
Mr.. and Mrs, John Blank lost their
'aby last night. The poor little shaw
r had had something the matter with
t ever since it was born. Better go
lown to the Jones block and get the
letails." But story of the state
political convention, or a street car
accident, or the possibilities of
'aise in wages in the Smith & Com
lany mills occupied the reporters at
ention and he could not get around
o the Jones block. II was only one
title baby, anyhow 1t had only lived