El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-06-07

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1 a year before marrying and the
care OF children seems such a natural
thing to me. love children dearly.
and so my heart has ached and bled
these many years when / observe
daily the unaccountably careless.
thoughtless way mothers care for
their precious God given babies.
Wealthy parents let an attendant
take a beautiful little baby out and
they never know where It goes I
have seen these babies taken into
hot dirty quarters. in order that the
attendant might visit with her pe0ple-
given wa-er 90 drink out Of a common
drinking vessel and often fed insult
able food % keep &c quiet. while the
poor, ragged. dirty little children
crowded around IT,
The children reared in such quar-
tiers become immune. to some extent
TO the dangerous Eermladen atmos-
phere. but the child brought In con-
TACT with IL suddenly is running a
great risk.
baby on the street.
Then grown young women. white or
black. VIII take a baby out on the
street or 20 some public park and
give their undivided attention 90 vls-
itiug With friends or flirting with
some man, and ] have watched these
poor little babies for hours az a time
sitting Tn an uncomfortable position.
hot, thirsty and fatiEued- These same
attendants are often cruel TO the
child. spanking 10 and scoldlng it E
when it frets
These poor babies mothers are us
ual!y society women, too busy doing
nothing 90 look after their babies
Ignorant Women Nurses
Tn III Faso. have seen on the .
streets az different times. ignorant E
Mexican women rolling beautiful
babies around en- topped. comforta bic '
carriages with the tops back and the E
glariug hot sun IN midafreruoon. fun .
in the baby face Its little eyes were /
shut But for this. m the parents I
could have known it. that pood child T
would De stone blind. the optic nerve &
being temporarily para-lzeL IL such I
treatment continues for sometime it,
Is a SAFE guess that the effect VIII be f
lifelong
An elderly Mexican woman came {
rollins beautiful white child Up the
steep hin on West Rio Graude walk
ing very slowly. top back and the
wee morSel looked more ike cooked D
.ohsfr than a white child To was
the heavens were as
sun was fun I'm the baby face. We 4.
met hair way I'D and 7 pulled the TOD .
over naoys face and demonstrate r
with the woman she may not have
understood me. but IL looks could kin. f
I would pc dead now
What T. KnowIedee For
VIII -Uu people who employ iEuC-
rant servants and ertrust the best
you have IN the world Co their care
nt keeping. without oversight ana
directions. tell me what your superior
knowledge Isl good for- what good is
DO that you spent years in school with
the best books and under the best i'm Z
s. tructors the times could afford II
:" % =
gained What better are you 10 the 4
world. than the poor and iCuoramuses (
who have not the knowledge
But wanted 70 talk 20 the moth +
ers who take their babies shopping OF
into the business part OF town on hot
iavs
First. we have the automobile baby.
hundreds Of them, waiting az the
-uro tor hours, perhaps. while the
mother shops or does other running
lround-
Danger from Germs.
II Paso Eeens Its bushes part fair-
v clean. but streets are narrow and
traffic heavy and there IS bound 20 be
some refuse from store and street
llone the curhing- Flies and germs
are plentiful and YOUR baby IS there
To- take it in- Ii IS not a wise or a
GOOD plan. 90 say nothing worse about
t. Take a peep behind the stores I'm
The alleys in late afternoons and see
Z You want 20 take your tender hahv
md deuositinC 90 g few feet away
leave &c there for hours TO breathe
hat air.
when lived in #. worth. there
was fine lad ten years old. sole sup
port Of widowed mother with five
-hildren. who sold -aners on cornerr
VI Seventh and Main streets. During
he hottest part Of his LAST summer.
be- was picked 10 unconscious one
llT and taken 90 a hospital and Go
was gsrerr7 iuef that he had malig-
lant typhoid and could not get wei T
e lived ten DAYS OF two weeks. re
'ld sold papers az the curhinE close
To- the crossing where a street drain
vent into sewer. The streets were
waved. the drain was good and yet.
nOuch gas escaped 20 give him ma
iCrant typhoid. Why subject your
hil1rcn IN uurecess7-~ fanrer7
The Gocurt Bahy-
Then we have the goclrt baby Poor
tile thing Sittine there for hours
n an uncomfortable seat. removed I
uIV a few Inches from the cunning 7
lot pavement, with heat and licht |
curing down from above and this /
effected heat and glare from beneath. T |
c is nlll cooked ana fariguei from
be same position being mainta inad ]
or hours The child. too. is usually
OF snow instead Of comfort Is there
ny wonder that they fret and rrva n
Then we have the walking baby
ID THE r-nv from wee stun hlire tot =
p the child three or four vea~s ola O
wee baby 1ust able to walk is held d
= the hand tightly. arm brought un b
YER nnnFs head and the stumbling p
tile form Is supported entirely on q