The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Baby King in France Today; .
His Day Has Come at Last
Cannot Afford to Lose Single Child and Whole Nation
Has Turned to Task to See That All Get
Chance to Live =

little Pierre, and he smiled angelically
the moment he had what he wanted;
his clothes back on.
The doctor leaned over and talked
to the mother. quietly, crisply, con-
cisely. and the woman listened atten-
lively. with something more than mere
gratitude in her eyes.
Our turn next, as soon as the more
| important Monster Pierre was ushered
out, and We were privileged to shake
hands with an inspiration. We shall
always remember that doctor as one of
the most helpful persons we have ever
met. one who has made the world bet
ter for having been born in it, one
whose life has been lived to splendid
purposes.
woman, strong. capable, magnetic,
one able. to handle mothers as well as
babies. and to inspire confidence in
| them both.
/ She is one of those women of France
who has made herself part of the ma
| ton, part of its stupendous sacrifice,
part of its unyielding determination.
| At the outbreak of the war, she was
in the enjoyment of large and lucra
! tive practice. She gave it up imme-
l0iatsly, and has ever since devoted
her entire attention to the upbuiiding
lot future France through the babies
fOf the poor; one day a week in each
Ia sevcn dispensaries, and. after sthe
t6tfIce hours are over, night visits to
ttinya patients, who cannot be brought
to the clinic.
= There isSa big passion iii her for
Ii tl,.N
lin her determination that not one of
tAasbabies who come under her charge
fhut shall develop into fine, sturdy.
we'll balanced men and women, Not
/ that she talks about it much Her
statement of her purposes and discus
! sion of her work was necessarily hasty.
| Tor her vis!tars were perfectly well.
land full grown and had no need for
her, while outside long strings of ba :
bies were waiting.
Hello, Here comes something start
ING. something certainly, II expert
enced observation amounts TO anything.
from q southern cline; IA woman with
hair and eyes black as coal, her cheeks
flaming like poppy.
The nurses and visitors alike bright
ened as If something electrical had
come into the room. She must have
been stunning when she was girl,
IL ever there was woman who had
been The undisputed belle of the vii
lage. some place where skies We're blne
and trees were green and grapes were
red. this was she. Something rough
about her. too, something Of a swagger
in her shoulders, left over from that
long ago. perhaps. when the world be-
longed 10 her, something sturdy In her
facing of the world. something fierce
and something gentle. A tightly
swathed bundle In her arms, which. on
opening. proved to contain Baby jean
cite. Instantly Baby Jeanette. with coal
black hair and eyes. sat up and waved
her arms, and smiled on all the COM
pany, rlealing full row of little
N4Ne doctor greeted Jeanette with
sHssae and the mother with a half-re-
proving glance; then she jerked the
shawl from the lower part of Jeanette,
and displayed two little habitually red
legs two little habitually red 1et.
Jeanette WAS treated. at once. to 4tie
process Of being stripped. and haxins'
heF ttouAeh laid across y broad hand