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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20
By MADGE ARTHUR

only by unmarried young women
who are employed in the service of
the Episcopal church, but by EpiS-
copalian maidens throughout the
land.
In view of the interest that has
been aroused, it is perhaps per-
missible to state just how the pro-
ject Of eliminating the word "obey"
and all reference to worldly goods"
from the prayer book stands at the
present moment.
CHANGE NOT IMMINENT.
No revision of the Book Of Com
mon Prayer of the Episcopal church
can be made until after at two
sessions of the General Convention
such proposed change has been ap-
proved. These General Conventions
are held triennially.
At the last, which took place at
Portland, Maine, in 1922, joint
commission previously appointed re-
ported in favor of revising the mar
riage ritual in the manner above
referred to, and the convention APP
proved the suggestion. But to be-
come an accomplished fact it must
be again approved at New Orleans
next month.
As the convention there to as
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20
Men and Spinsters Are Among Best
Mothers" That Ever Lived,
Says Writer !

safety pins. "Kish" sounds like
something tearing.
But safety pins are not safe. l
for one have actually wounded my
self oftener with safety pins than
with safety razors.. The safety pin
is bad enough when it punctures
baby's anatomy. but it makes a pc
culiarly unwholcsome thing for
babies to swallow. Doctors have had
to invent special instruments for
the extraction of open safety pins
from babies insides.
This dress reformer for babies
found a method of doing away with
safety pins and with unsafety pins
and even with buttons, which have a
way of coming off or of settling in
uncomfortable places. Buttons also
are extremely swallowable.
Many supplemented mothers have
avoided all these troubles by simply
sewing their children into their
clothes for the winter. But there
are objections to this custom-espe-
cially when the winters are long
and the ventilation poor.
BETTER METHODS.
4 Nowadays no SINE, or at least no
humane. mother will put a button
or a pin on baby's clothes. Little
ribbons tied where they will not
knot in tender spot are the fash.
ion today.
The fabrics worn close to the new
made skin are also Of the greatest
Importance. They should be of the
softest texture. And there must be
no seams to cut the silken flesh.
The quality of diaper fabric has
only recently been considered and
scientifically perfect material Great
cd.
1t was a man that conquered
these ancient problems. He went
about asking all the baby doctors
what a baby ought to wear. He
went to conventions of physicians
and auizzed them as to their ex"
periences and what they would con.
slider ideal.
He found that nearly everything
in general use was wrong. VI
course, numberless babies were
growing, but it was in spite of their
clothes and not because of them.
PERSISTENCE WINS.
He set to work to manufacture
the needed things. He met every
where the opposition that rewards
all benefactors. Dealers would not
look at his devices, nor give them
space. Mothers shifted at them,
and retorted: what my mother
put on her babies is good enough
for my babies"
The poor dolts had forgotten
how they had howled themselves
purple and had grown used to their
own babies bowling themselves
purple.
But the friend Of helpless speech
less infants persisted. BE sent out
demonstrators. Young college men
went up and down the land, preach
ing the gospel of sane clothes for
children to mothers who did not
know enough or care enough to
avoid torturing their darlinss.
And finally he changed the mind
Of the dealers, and they changed
such minds as their customers had.
And now he has an enormous
business. He makes seamless things
with painless tapes to tie them
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She has had 10 educate herself,
her employers and the public.
First she had to convince the
owners of the department store
that her department would be
profitable In direct proportion to
its benevolence. As in many other
fields, the more you give away for
nothing, the more you get back.
She asked that a trained nurse
be kept on salary to deal out free
advice. The manager said:
"A trained nurse, eh? And what
will she sell?"
Nothing"
"Then you can't have her. The
overhead is too big already"
But she finally got her way; and
now the manager is glad to let her
have two graduate nurses on duty.
They not only care for expectant
mothers who come shopping but
they answer endless questions.
Free lectures on the care and
feeding and dressing of infants are
given in the store and sent abroad
by radio.
She invoked the cooperation Of
the public health departments, and
found the state, county and city
boards more at war with one an
other than with infant mortality.
She persuaded them to finally pull
together, and work with her. She
notifies the health board now of
where infants are expected, since
throngs of mothers come to her to
buy in advance the trousseaux Of
their impatiently awaited visitors.
The Health Boards now offer
treatment, advice beforehand, a doc
tor for the birth, and after-care-all
for nothing if people are poor. Poo
pie who can afford it are charged
$2j per baby. The National Gov
eminent is also taking an increasing
interest in greeting its future citi-
zens at the mysterious Ellis Island
where the little immigrant scome
ashore, from the dark sea of mys-
terry. .sIs
LAZY MOTHERS.
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Women Shelter Babies From Common
Sense and Send Them Off to
the Graveyard

learn. That Is why 80 many babies
Of today would be infinitely better
off II they were taken from their
fond but foolish parents and sub
jected to the most untender paid
nurses and Indifferent doctors in
state and city institutions. There
are millions Of fool mothers who
think that q kissing. a rocking,
grooming and a "pacifer" are sud-
stitutes for intelligence. Hate Is
less fatal than such love.
WORSE THAN HER0D.
1t Is true that the mothers Of our
generation have largely reformed in
the matter Of drugs. They do not
pour % many opiates into their
babies as their own mothers did.
The once familiar words "paregoric'
and -laudnaum- are rarely heard
of now. They are certainly not adj
vertised everywhere as once they
were. But other evil habits pre-
vail.
Old King Herod has long been
held up to odium as bad man for
ordering the slaughter Of the limo
cents. But what he did was as
nothing to what stupid parents are
doing every day. Stupid, lazy, OBJ
stinate mothers have murdered their
tens of thousands to Herod's one.
And the slaughter is still going on,
though some progress has been made
in checking it. Much of that prog
rcss is due to people who have
never had babies.
There are saints In the calendar
for works of mercy and charity to
a few poor children. Their names
are household words. They have
their special days and millions Of
children are named after them.
But in these days Of ruthless pub
Ecity / don't dare even mention
the names Of these two saints
whose good works are incalculable,
and who are going about quietly
saving armies of infants.
They make n business Of doing
good. Their hearts are big and soft
and sanity, but they perform their
miracles through the enormous chan
nels of commerce. Therefore they
do not belong in pure reading mat
ter. They can only get next to it
by publishing Advertisements at
regular rates.
But there ought to be some form
Of canonization for them. Their
charges are small, but their bene-
factions priceless.
There is no halo round the head
Of the man who invented mercifu]
devices for the salvation of little
children from innumerable miseries.
But there ought to be.
REAL LIFE HEROES.
And there ought to be halos for
woman like this spinster who makes
a hospice of n department store
and deals out advice more precious
than ointment to the endless army
OF mothers that marches down her
aisles, gazing GENEROUSLY at costly
lace caps and cradle decorations
and paying all too little heed to
the wisdom poured Unto their ears,
This spinster who mothers Sc
many children grows almost frantic
before the conveyed, cow-hearted
herds that wander through her de
partment and spend more money
than they can afford on snowy
clothes for their baby's advertise
ment; and yawn when salvation is
handed out to them for nothing.
They are warned that a baby:
food should be cooked much Longer
than food for adults. But they are
in too big a hurry to be off to the
shops.
Copyright, 1925, by the Bell sny,
dictate, Inc.)
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was a form Of self-perpetuatng has-
ing.
There lie no computing the crimo
that has its origin In the sins OF
omission and commission by parents
and teachers.
Whenever good or VIGOROUSLY evil
people are fond of a sin they make
an effort to justify it, rationalize 1t
-beautify 1t. And so innumerable
mothers who prefer their own whims
to scientific truths cravenly answer
criticism by saying.
swell, that's the way my mother
raised me, and what was good
enough for my mother Is good
enough for me-"
TRY THE NEW.
Let Us have all sympathy for the
earlier generations that stood In
gloom that recent science has IL
Eliminated. But let US not put out
the light because 1t Is new. When
it comes to justifying the mistreat-
ment Of a child by calling II a trib-
ute of respect to ones own moth
er, the tribute Is nothing short Of
outrageous, and often It Is muir
derous.
The father and mother Of yester-
day were all too often compelled to
stand by and wiring their hands
while their children went from con-
vulsions to death. The benighted
doctors had to stand by and suf-
fer from their own ignorance. The
majority of people expected to lose
the majority Of their children.
Even 1 am not too young to re-
member when it was thought best
to expose children to all diseases,
ito get it over with" 1t hurried
countless weaklings into the grave
yard, but how many great artists,
poets, scientists and statesmen were
lost thus, is beyond imagining.
I knew one woman who deliber-
ately submitted her grandchild to
whooping cough, with the result
that the baby caught it, the train
ed nurse caught it and the grand
mother caught it. All three of
them were jounced up and down on
the brink of death for days and
nights of horrible torture.
If that baby had died, that
grandmother would never have been
called up and sent to the gallows
for infanticide, yet she would have
committed the crime for which SO
many young women have swung
Was she any less guilty than they?
She was the very ideal of the
good old-fashioned grandmother
Her heart meant well and she loved
the child, but she dealt it a life
long injury and she left it to luck
and the doctors to keep her from
murder.
A CASE IN POINT.
Countless good old-fashionet
mothers today are numbering theil
babies slowly but surely, in thu
good old-fashioned ways: Ant
countless other mothers are inflict
ing on their infants cripplings and
weakenings of fabric that will ham
per them all their lives.
These mothers kiss and pet their
babies and google over them. They
would scream with horror at being
accused of manslaughter, or infant
slaughter; but love is a poor ex'
cuse for ignorance that refuses tc
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

TWO of the best mothers on earth
today are a man and spin
ster. He couldn't have a baby and
she never did.
/ used the word mother" in a
metaphorical sense, of course, as we
call a university an "alma mater"
or speak Of Mother Earth"-who,
by the way, has been getting too
many babies. and all too soon. She
is beginning to lose good deal of
her tender diet.
The main object Of a mother is
surely to keep her baby alive and
well and comfortable till it has out
grown the need of her, and then to
send it on to manhood and woman
hood strong and clean and wise and
brave for the eternal world war of
life.
In the important matter of what
to wear. the children of today owe
more to a man than to any woman,
for it is a man that has revolution
ned the whole matter of dressing
babies and children.
II this great Good Samaritan had
failed, or been put to death, / could
publish his name. But, after long
fierce struggle, he has succeeded SO
well that he has become rich and
powerful. So his name must be left
for the advertising columns.
A CURIOUS TWIST.
That is one Of the curious twists
of the human mind. so-called. Any
body who fails dramatically and gets
himself killed has good chance of
founding an enormous cult, partic-
ularly if he offers the world some
thing it cannot really use.
But woe to the man who gains
what lie is going after, helps his
neighbors enormously and grows
rich by enriching the world. Every
little critic will sneer at him as
cheap commercial mind, and every
radical will accuse him of robbing
the poor.
This man. then, must remain
anonymous here, though he has
saved so many inarticulate babies
from pain and distress that the
noise they would otherwise have
made would be audible in Mars. But
how are you to measure silence?
How are you to compute the sleep
that might have been lost? The con-
vulsions that did not come off? Tie
rest that WORKOUT parents did not
miss? Gratitude for a negation is
difficult to feel, yet it Is none the
less due.
This nameless man made the
amazing discovery that infants
clothing was unnecessarily idiotic.
Since the first fig-leafed mother
pinned the first palm leaf on the
fist baby's southern elevation 1t
has been recognized that there was
something wrong with baby gar
ments. But no one seemed to realize
that the evil was unnecessary.
THE "UNSAFETY" PIN.
The first problem was to keep
any kind of clothes on at all. There
fore, the safety pill was among the
first destructive weapons invented.
In the museums you can tind
among the relics of the Oldest cave
jewellers crude safety pins. They
we're old in Oldest Egypt. In the
most recently discovered and most
ancient cities, Kish, they found Or
nate safety pins. Perhaps the word
"Kish" had its origin in mishaps to
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

women and children has now
brought home the charity he began
abroad during the war. Under his
auspices the Department OF Labor,
Child Health Association at Wash
ington issues three important
pamphlets for two cents apiece; one
on Prenatal Care one on The
Feeding of the Child; one on the
Training Of the Child.
Now all over the country, In al
most every large department store,
the work initiated by these people Is
being carried on and free advice
proffered.
This spinster I speak Of has found
that most mothers are too lazy to
send for such wisdom. When, how
ever, she staged a contest for the
best babies, $4,000 mothers fastened
forward with their candidates for
prizes.
: This was an appeal Of selfishness
and vanity, and such appeals rarely
fail to cause a stampede. Three
hundred and sixty Of the candidates
had flat feet already-before walk
ing on them. An appalling number
of them were under-nourished.
Strange to say, most of the under
nourished came from well-to-do fam
lilies. The parents by no means be-
grudged the food, but administered
it unwisely. 1t is quite possible
to starve a child by stuffins it.
STUPID MOTHERS.
One Of the deadliest influences on
childhood development is the enorm-
Gus use of the so-called "pacifier"-
a mouthpiece for the child to suck
on. 1t has disastrous effects on d.
gestion, owing to the increased and
wasted flow of saliva; it is also
almost sure to cause protruding
teeth.
Yet hundreds Of ox>eyed women
will nod their thick heads as they
blandly listen to lectures warning
them against the use of pacifiers,
and never take the pacifiers out of
their own babies mouths even while
they listen.
An experienced teacher has fig
urcd it out that you have to tell a
Ibid a thing thirty-four times be-
fore he really takes it into his mind.
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Women Favor Ritual Revision

scmble, consists of n different men,
bership then that which constituted
the gathering of three years ago, it
is impossible TO say what its &C.
ton will be, but if a sportive term
may be used without irreverence,
the odds are at least ten to one that
the proposed revision will be ap-
proved.
VIEWS DIFFER.
At the present time the subject
has brought out totally dissimilar
views from two widely separated
parts of the United States. The
Episcopal bishop Of Colorado, in
Spposition, says: ave are not fit to
amend the marriage service of our
fathers until we have restored the
family life to the sanctity which
it enjoyed in their time"
The Episcopal bishop of Massa-
chusctts, in approval, says: There
have been times in the worlds his
tory when the man has been COM
PEELED to obey the woman, as well
as times when the woman has been
compelled to obey the man. Both
are equally wrong in bringing an
institution based on the infinite
power of love down to the plane Of
coercion"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20
LAZY MOTHERS.

Herbert Hoover, who ought to be
canonized as a saint for his miracu-
lous feelings Of multitudes and his
benefactions to whole nations of
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A NEW SCIENCE.

The business was a total loss
and she ceased to be an independ-
ent dealer. Her experience found
her ready employment. She chose
for a speciality the art and science
of clothing children.
She became famous in her field
and has recently built W the baby's
department in a great department
store to undreamed of prosperity,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The
National Council of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United
States is located III an extremely
ornamental building of six stories
on Fourth Avenue. Although not
altogether 'churchy' in appearance,
it suggests to passers-by in this
neighborhood of spacious office
buildings, that some business of an
ecclesiastical nature is being car
ried on therein, and indeed there is.
Seven different departments OF
church work are housed within this
structure, and there is employed
large army of lay-wor1lers, the
majority of whom are women. Not
only are they exceedingly well paid
for the various secrctarial and
clerical tasks they perform, but
with no cost to themselves they
carry both life and disability poll
cies of insurance.
AGAINST WORD.
Naturally they are all Episcopal
ians, devoted to the church, and
ready and willing to abide by its
rules and regulations. 1 cannot
from actual knowledge assert that
any of these industrious young wo-
men are planning immediate matri-
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A WONIANS AID.

they hurt.
A WOMANs AID.
He has for his battle cries such
slogans as these:
"No babies are born poor. All
babies are millionaires."
Every baby born is the greatest
baby in the world"
Nothing is to good for baby"
The cause is growing. The army
of really good mothers is growing.
But so is the army Of stupid or
lazy mothers.
Among the most enthusiastic con-
verts of this motherly man, who
had never been a mother was
woman of whom the same could
be said.
Circumstances sent her out to
earn her own living, at an early age
and though she has prospered she
has never married, but has spent
her earnings on the children of her
relatives. She is sending two
nephews through college now.
She began by opening a little
shop in the South where she sold
articles Of women and children's
wear. She did so well that her
shop became an emporium. She was
insured against fire, but not against
flood. One night a river became
.lake and she found her shop
swimming pool in which sea lions
from an Inundated zoo dived about
her imported frocks, hats and lay
cites. When the walruses and the
water went their way they left a
mass of useless mud.
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on. He makes fat ankle shoes for
fat ankled babies and thin for thin.
He makes amazing things to give
comfort and health to poor little
brats that cannot even tell where
they hurt.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
LOCAL REALTOR WILL
MAKE WORLD CRUISE

including extended motor drive about
the city, visiting the Jain Temple,
Kalighat, etc, Diamond Harbor; Cey-
Ion. Colombo, including motor trip TO
the Cinnamon Gardens and Mt. La
vinia, also excursions TO Handy and
the botanical Gardens at Pera-
dcniya: India, Bombay, including
launch trip 10 the caves Of Elephanta
and motor about the city to Hanging
Gardens. Towers of Silence and ma
tive quarters; Egypt and Palestine,
Port Sudan. diSembarking party for
Khartoum. Port Tcwfik, including six
days in Cairo, with motor drives to
the Pyramids, old Cairo. Heliopolis
and the Bazaars, Alexandria; Italy.
Naples. including visit 10 Pompeii and
steamer TO the Island of Capri or mo-
tor drive about the city; The Riviera,
Monaco, including motor trip TO Nice
over the famous Cornichc Road with
wonderful vistas of the sea and shore
Spain. Gibraltar, including carriage
drive about the city and steamer across
the bay 10 the Spanish town Of Alge-
ciraS; then return 10 New York.
Mr.. Dickinson says that he plans to
leave the boat at Gibraltar and that
he and his wife expect 10 spend sew
eral months touring Europe.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
OPTICAL COMPANY
CHANGES LOCATION

The Siebert Optical Company has
moved 10 larger quarters at ODD East
Houston street. next 10 the Royal
theater. The move was necessitateL
by the proposed erection of a new,
eight-story office building and theate,
10 be erected on the old site at the
Riverside Drive.
According 10 DIR. L. III. Hayden
present manager of the company. the
new quarters win have u double cx-
animation room. a mezzaninc flc0: for
office work, and a work shop. "All
lens viii be ground in our shop. We
are prepared to give the public the
best along optical line. We give the
best of service and our work is done
by experienced people says DR.. Hay
den.
DIR. Hayden. formerly Of Louisiana
was secretary and treasurer of the
Louisiana board of Optometry in addi-
ton TO his work at the Hayden Opti-
cal Company of Louisiana, Of which
he was the proprietor for Il years.
In all he has been engaged in the
optical business for Is years and is
competent of handling the most com
plicated cases along this line OF work.
DIR. Hayden states he has secured
4 very capable optieian as an assist
ant-one Of the best who cOuLl b.
found in San Antonio and who has
had wide experience in optical work.
DIR. Hayden reports that this past
season has been one Of the best he
ever has witnessed in the Optical bust
ness. The prospects for the coming
season look promising and we stand
ready TO serve San Antonio and its
people" said DR.. HAYDEN.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
BROWNSVILLE HOTEL
WORK IS STARTING

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Nov. T.
The site Of BroWnsville's tourist hotel
is being marked off by engineers Of
the city Of Brownsville, and Mr..
Wagner. representative Of the KEEL
Wood Company Of San Antonio,
architects and builders for the job,
was here Wednesday looking over
the work.
The first excavation and construc-
ton work on the hotel is scheduled
10 be started Monday. November o.
il was announced from the office Of
James and Dickinson Farm Mortgage
company here, who have the hotel
contract.
W. G.. Vollmer, assistant 20 the
president Of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, and c. W. Strain, general pas
senger agent, with Houston offices
are here looking over the preparations
70 start work on the hotel.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
SUB-CONTRACTORS
MEET THURSDAYS

The sub-cOntraetOrs division OF the
San Antonio Builders Exchange will
meet every Thursday at noon in the
auditorium Of the Exchange building.
where lunch will be served. announces
Sidney Cornelius. manager OF the ex-
change. The contractors will make
reservations for the luncheons by
phoning the Builders Exchange office
before II o'clock on Thursday morn
ing.
Fhe sub-contractOrs recently organ
lied 4 division 70 discuss the problems
that confront them in the building in
dustry.