The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-11
CAN CHECK BABIES
Mothers Permitted To Leave
Them at Fair Entrance.
Public Health Nursing AssOcia-
ton Cares for Them.
MANY AMUSING INCIDENTS
Some OF the Youngsters Become
Regular BoIsheviki.
One Mother With a Nurse OBJ
jected to Charges.

With places in operation to check
bundles, motor cars, buggies and most
everything else. it does not seem a bit
out Of the ordinary that there should
be place to check babies.
There is such a place at the fair
grounds. The Public Health Nursing
association is operating a place where
. mothers may check their little ones.
The place is located in the Red Cross
tent. The Red Cross has given a part
Of the tent over to the use of the Nurs-
ing association. Miss Beth Wright, of
the Public Heath Nursing staff, is in
charge Of the tent
Many pathetic and amusing incl
dents occur az the tent. A mother
came to the tent. With her came her
baby and its negro nurse. The mother
objected to paying ten cents to check
her baby and its nurse at the tent.
altho she was in affluent circum-
stances, apparently. for she could at
ford TO hire a nurse. When the baby
went to sleep. the nurse placed it in
one of the cots just the same as il it
was little one with its expenses paid.
Care for Babies Only.
Another woman brought in a child.
1t had outgrown the baby stage and
could use its legs well. The nurse
in charge objected. They are not
equipped to herd a bunch of kids that
might duck from the tent and start
out on a private tour about the fair
grounds. They finally took the child
in. however, and she slept peacefully
thru all the time her mother was
gone The association can only care
for small babies-arm size ones-that
spend the time they aren't crying in
sleeping. and will stay put when
placed in Il little cot, because they
can't get out.
of the stands Her baby probably at
tracts the most attention. 1t likes to
sit up in nothing but a little diaper.
1t perspires a good deal in the ex-
cessive heat and shouts out loud about
II every now and then. But the nurses
say II is mighty good. has fine dis
position and is a very attractive
youngster.
Then there was a mother who
wanted to park her little one outside
the tent. She said II would sleep
peacefully out there. Inside the tent
the Youngsters who had not success
fully courted slumber. clamored and
complained as best they could with a
Vocabulary limited mostly to the usual
variety of baby noises. So this one
was hauled UP alongside the the tent.
But Mrs. G. c. Bailey. supervisor
of the Public Health Nursing associa-
tiun later spotted IT outside and had
Through 4Hs Tor fear something might
happen to 1T. IN
Ii is mighty fine work tho.
Turnout the grounds there are hun
dreds of women who have come in to
see the fair. Tired almost to exhaus-
tion, they drag the little ones around
carrying them more and more reck-
lessly as they become more tired. The
babies themselves reach point where
the fair ceases to become a bore. They
become revolutionist-purely Bolshe-
viki-'Down with the Fair. Down
with parents who drag us around to
see cows, chickens, tractors and pop
d. rot nj 10
and don't mind saying so. This check
ing room thus provides an accommo-
datfon welcome to both the babies
and their mothers.