Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-05-27

ton of the baby against flies, and
boiling of all utensils.
CDR. Jones" says: (Reprinted from
Health News, April 18, 1938-the
Weekly Bulletin of the New York
State Department of Health-in refer
ence to the pictures in Life" about
the Birth of a Baby.
"Well-the birth of a baby seems
to be quite a novelty, Judging from
the commotion over those pictures.
It's kind of funny, too, when you stop
to think that everybody on the face of
the earth has been born at one time
or another. You'd think it would be
such an old story that nobody'd even
bother to look at 'em.
Il don't know how many times I've
heard folks say that one of the ad-
vantages of having youngsters grow
up on a farm was that you didn't
have to give 'em any Of this tommy
rot about the stork bringing babies,
the doctor bringing 'em in his satchel
and all that-they didn't put it just
that way but that's what they meant
because they just learned naturally
by seeing things being born. You
try any of this stork stuff on farm
kid and he's liable to give you the
'He-ha'. He knows better. He's seen
life as It really is and there isn't any
mystery about it.
"You know how they always figure
"a lot of folks-that city youngsters
are more sophisticated than their coun
try cousins; don't know whether they
get that magazine much back on the
farms but I'd like to bet, if they do,
those pictures weren't half so much
of a sensation back there as they
were in the big towns. 1t seems to be
all right, the way some folks look at
it, for youngsters to see pictures of
gangsters moving down folks with
machine guns and all sorts of sugges-
tive stuff but for 'em to see clean
picture showing an age-old natural
process-the one that brought US all
into the woodworking attractive or
alluring about it but true to life-and
that's shocking. Makes me think of
what one of the youngsters down
here said. He had a tear in his
breeches and his mother was scolding
him for going around with it. We'll,
gee, Momr he says, 'ain't everybody
got skin?'
"No, 1 don't see anything to get
excited about, myself. It'd be better
for everybody, the way it looks to
me, if they'd started taking the mys-
terry and the nonsense out of the
childbirth hundred years ago, in
stead of waiting It'll 1888. If they
had we wouldn't be having all this
trouble making prospective mothers
see the necessity of going to their
doctors ahead of time for check-ups-
and prospective fathers, too, for that
matter-and I've got an idea maybe
our maternal death rate wouldn't be
as high as it is, either. This Sweet
Mystery of Life stuff-it sound aw-
full nice in song, but a lot Of the
mystery is just plain ignorance"
Does Your Maid Have Syphilis?
If she is colored the chances are
very good that she does have-at
least one chance in three or four in
Worcester County. If she does have
it, what is the danger to you and
your family? You won't get it from
the food she prepares or the clothes
she washes-at least the chances are
extremely remote. Likewise remote
is the chance you will get it from the
toilet seat she cleans, or uses. More
probable, but still not great, is the
chance that your baby, for whom she
cares, will contract the disease.
There are many reasons for fight
ing syphilis, but the maids situation