Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-04-01
TWENTIETH CENTURY
CH|LDREN'S CRUSADE
BY DR.. EMILY NOBLE
Address Before Business Girls
Club Of The Y. w. c. A. On
Helpfulness To Defective Chill
dren - Address Illustrated
With Stereopticon Views
MORAL VALUE OF A
CORRECT EDUCATION

AT the ~ last evening DR.. Emily
Noble addressed the Business Girls
Club. together with a few women in
tensely interested in her subject, and
as she herself said, Two brave men,
One of these very kindly and cleverly
managed the stereoptican films. illus
trating her work DR. Noble was in
troduced by Mrs Richards, wife Of
Capt. T. w Richards, L. s. n Medical
Director Of the Naval Hospital.
That it is a great work she fully
demonstrated
DR. Noble. after the San Francisco
fire twenty years ago. that left her
financially wrecked, and casting about
to see TO what remhnerative work she
would devote her life, happily found
a great need of repair work for child
rem. and entered upon what she calls
The Twentieth Century Children's
Crusade" and has presented to the
world new feature in physical re-
education II is rightly called meth
cd for the millions, which rapidly de-
velops lung power and restores pos
ture and nutrition
DR.. Noble gave a brief but compre-
hensiye review of the normal function
ing of the human body, its wonderful
system of circulation, of drain, OF re-
pair. its only motor power being food
and air; its only method for throwing
off poison, OF fatigue. being rest and
rhythmic breathing She handles her
subject skillfully and interestingly,
Speaking of the human spine she says
it is the finest method of ,transporta-
lion known Notwithstanding the
odium put upon it by scientists, who
say there never has been found in man
4 perfect spine, or in animals an inn
perfect one 1t seems great penalty
the race pays for trying to walk up
right
DIR Noble described the functions Of
the various parts of mans anatomy in
fine and subtle style, and came finally
to those of the nose as the most valu-
able, acting as a filterer, drain,
moistener and the cOnveyer of oxygen
that sustains the whole body, makes
it strong against fatigue, and burns
up the refuse that makes unsightly
fat in every way. carrying on the ply
steal functions of the body, and aiding
the finer functioning of the mind.
DR. Noble bases her theory of help
fulness to deficient children that we
have altogether wrong ideas of breath
ing that really is an entirely automatic
function. She protests against any
effort to breathe correctly-simply
breathe.
She exhibited many pictures of
children, before and after, she had
taught right posture of body and
stopped mouth breathing, and il
seemed marvellous, though well attest
ed. that in a short time of two weeks
such results could be obtained, with
out apparatus or medicine-a thing
that makes it tenfold more valuable.
DR. Noble states that in the United
States we have 100000 defective
children, and if that be so. it is i'm
possible to estimate the value of her
discovery. so simple. too, as to be en-
braced as she says in four points-not
fourteen-that so staggered Clemen-
ceau that he exclaimed: Comment! lie
bon Dieu, "a pas que diX'-Dr. Noble
II pas que quatre."
DR.. Noble greatly emphasizes the
moral value of perfect health obtained
by correct breathing, correct posture
and nutrition. and her advice to the
business girls. as she showed pictures
Of young girls in perfect physical and
mental Doise. was very fine. Especial
ly she stressed the fact that character
is shown in costume and working cos
tune above all, and that good taste
forbids the wearing of low cut, peek
a-boo waists in offices. AS the finest
exhibition of character manifest in
feminine feature and form she showed
On the screen a copy of chat famous
painting in the Metropolitan Museum
in New York, the Maid of Orleans
just nineteen, and the wonder and
marvel of the world in the epoch OF
history she helped TO make.
DR. Noble is a good speaker; she
has the saving grace of humor, and
interspersed her lecture with anec-
dote and illustration. II is to be hoped
her work will become a part of every
educational method OF this country.
She is a great benefactor, with great
heart for the~young A mother her,
self, who has had to battle alone for
the living and education of her boy.
Every woman who did not hear her