Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-06-27
NURSERIES AID
BUSY MOTHERS
Young Married m With
Wounded Husbands Leave
Babies In Public
"CreChes."

London, (by maiD.-Young married
ome of the professional classes with
young children, who by force of cir
cumstances have to supplement
meager incomes by taking employ
ment, have for ii long time felt the
need for day nurseries. The first at
tempt to meet such a need has beer
made by Lady Plunket, whose work
for infant welfare in New Iceland dul
ing her husbands tenure of office as
governor is we'll known in this country.
She opened u few weeks & the Basil
Blackwood Day Nursery. where she
has accommodation for about 90 chill
dren under 6 years old. There are al
ready IL daily inmates. Lady Plunket
hopes h a this will be the first of
many nurseries. for the need, though it
cannot be widely known to the general
public. is very urgent.
Many men of the professional class
es enlisted in he early days Of the
war, without seeking commissions, to
join the fighting ranks with the least
delay. Some are now coming back dis
abled to their little families with small
pensions; and in the interest of the
children the wives have to work.
There are the widows of professional
men. fallen in the ranks, and the Wild
ows of officers. who also find it neces-
sary-to meet war prices-to supple
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There are many other with DEL
icate husbands-in some instances the
wives of artists whose work has
ceased almost entirely-who are worse
off even h the war widows, finding
themselves II sole support Of young
families. h women a easily find
employment but many are not making
more than $3.50 a week in government
offices, n the care of their young
children during the day is an unceas-
ing anxiety to them. The munitioh
worker and The factory hand has her
"creche," where she knows her child
will be we'll cared for during the day,
but the middle class woman so far has
had to depend on young nursemaids-
when h could get thern-or on the at
tentions of a landlady. Sometimes. to
use the words of a young mother in a
government office, she has been
'hounded out of her lodgings and re-
fused again and again in other places
ecause of the children" So the young
working woman with children has to
face a twofold difTicuIty-the care of
them while she is at work, and their
housing along with her.
On a small scale Lady Plunket has
begun the solution of the first diff
Guilty with the Basil Blackwood
was killed in the war. and whose love
of children was shown in his draw
ings for THE Bad Child's Book of
Beasts" Only the children of women
h are working are taken. The
mothers bring their children on the
way to their office at 9. The little
one are taken in p~erambulators to
Kensington Park for an hour and a
half: then they have their milk and
go to sleep in dainty wooden cots.
most of which have been gifts in men,
Dry of men fallen in the war. At 1 they
come down to their dinner. at charm
ing little tables. and have a meal sent
in from the Glouchester o cookery
school. which caters for infants. The
other day it was soup and vegetables.
milk, pudding. and oranges. The child
rem play for a little n then the big
family starts out for the park again
in their prams. returning at 4 for their
tea" of milk and rusks. or pulled
bread and butter and jam. Their
mothers taxi them away soon after S.
Two well trained nurxes are in charge,
assisted, by voluntary helpers, and the
atmosphere OF the nursery il that. Of \
private house, J, Before entrance I. all
children are medically examined.
The charge Ia . maximum Of $40
. weed. which 10 sufficient to meet