Evening journal., 1918-03-01

ling, something certainly. II expert /
enced oh ervation amounts 20 any
thing, from southern clir/ woman /
with hair and ewes blac' = coal. her /
cheeks flaming like a <py
The nurses and visitors alike bright
ened as II something electrical had
come into the room She must have
been stunning when she was a girl
II ever there was woman who had
been the undisputed belle OF the VIII
LACE, some place where skies were
blue and trees were green and grapes
were red, this was shel Something
rough about her, too, something Of a
swagser in her shoulders left over
from that long AGO, perhaps, when the
world BELONGED 10 her. something stur-
/ dy In her facing Of the world, some
thing fierce and something gentle A
[ tichtly swathed bundle In her arms.
which. on opening, proved TO contain
/ Baby jeanette In family Baby jeanette.
with coal black hair and eyes. sat up
and waved her arms. and smiled on
all the company, revealing a full row
of little white teeth
The doctor greeted jeanette with a
/ smile and the mother with a half-re-
proving glance; then she ierked the
shawl from the lower part Of Jean
cite, and displayed two little habltual-
lv red legs, two little habitually red
feet Jeanette was treated. at once. TO
the process Of being stripped. and hav-
ing her stomach laid across a broad
hand. while an ear was applied to her
spine.
Un-hunhi A trace Of bronchitlsi
Now why was jeanette not provided
with STOCKINGS?
Prompt defiance on the part Of the
woman from the Bordelaise country
She has 20 children. i0l and she. work;
every day; she keeps a flower stand
naturally, one could tell that from
looking at her-the other children car
3 STAY home. but the baby she must taxi
with her; she sets Jeanette among tn
flowers. but there is a shawl arounl
Jeanctte's less. always! and lt ism
that which gives her the bronchitis
it's the bad weather we've been hav
ins, and. She's no match for th
doctor
To begin with, the doctor has to,
! strong a hold on the affections Of thl
woman from the Bordelaise country
/ which Is taking an unfair advantage
/. so they compromise on the doctors
. terms, she 10 provide the stockings an,
! the mother TO see that they are KEEP
on Jeanette; and an especially bali
baby enters.
, So 70 proceeds all day long, with nov
! and then q mother who. Ike the Borde
FIaise, clings 10 the old-fashioned ide,
that It's her baby, 20 do with as sh'
pleases; not everybody's baby; but FOL
the most part the mothers are IL
/. thoroush sympathy with the work, AM
grateful for It. Results count, even witt
mothers.
The mortality rate has been lowered
among tSase wee dlspensary patients
In spite OF the war, average weight 10
7 age has increased, and the genera
=. health and sturdiness, and even men
Z tality has improved 70 a remarkabl
= degree. among these waits who mostl'
:. have but one natural parent.
The state. however. IS splendidl'
. fathering these fathorless children. an
the wisest women and the best men ar
z glowing now with the already assure
u success of their efforts to make bet
:. ter France from the progeny Of thes
u natural mothers and an artificial father
+ France. with all her passionate devo
= tion to her great purposes, IS doing n
u better work than this.
u Another article by the Chestcrs o
n FRANCE TODAY will appear IN TIL
II EVENING JOURNAL tomorrow.