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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1918)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 21, 1918. Help Save the Better Babies in the United r States rl; vSf I ' I' With Good Food and Care Phots hy Iflitt Hunt of Rembrandt Studio 8 B Babies PILLOWS Renovated and Ro-Covered - FEATHER MATTRESSES Mads From Your Own' Feather. Mad With Summer and Winter Side. V OMAHA PILLOW CO. IM7 Cunts St. Douflaa 2467 . He Knows How to Keep . . The Babies in Good Health The man who made New Zealand the safest place in the world for ba bies has just left New York for Eng- . Novelties in Pleating and Buttons Hemstitching and Picot Edging Embroidering H Prompt Service Have Not Raised Prices IDEAL BUTTON & PLEATING CO. 300-308 Brown BIdf. Phon Douglaa 1938. Omaha, Neb. Birchmont Hospital 34th and Famam Sts. Harney 3050 r We maintain . special wards for maternity cases. Miss Rose Tfann, Manager Miss Mary E. Yager, Superintendent Training School for Nurses tee Want Ads Are Business Boosters. land, whither he was summoned to apply his methods to preserving the livesof English babies. He is Dr. F. Truby King, president of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, and founder of the famous Karitane hospitals of that country. Dr. King was received in this city as a man with an import ant message at a time when the country was about to make a great drive to save the lives of 100,000 ba bies during the coming year. New Zealand, in 1907, had a mor tality record of only 80 babies per 1,000; this good record, through the work inaugurated by Dr. King, was made even better in 191 S, when the, rate was rcmiced to 1 lie remarkably" low figure of 50 per 1,000. New York City has the lowest death rate for its population of any city in the United States, and is constantly reducing it. Yet, in 1907, the infant death rate in this city was 144 per 1,000 and in 1917 it was still as high as 88. per 1,000. Dr. King's work, which has aroused the admiration of medical men all over the world, is not confined to any one class of people. Almost in variably public health work 'is for ine very poor, ana only tne very poor feel thai they can take advantage of it without the stigma of receiving charity. Dr. King, when he began his work, interested Lord Plunket, then governor of- New Zealand, and his wife. Lady Plunket enlisted her friends not only as patrons but bene ficiaries of the work. The Karitane hospital wa3 founded, nurses took graduate courses in the care of chil dren, and mothers' stations were opened in different cities, where mothers could go for advice and take their babies, v , There are now some 70 of these stations in New Zealand and there will soon be six of the Karitane hos pitals. The oeculiaritv of these line. pitals is that they are not for the very in; mothers with small complica Closing Out Oar Reed Furniture 25 Discount ON 4 All Porch Furniture and Sun Room Till Disposed of . California Sun Room Set 7 Pieces, consisting of Day Bed with box springs and pad; Round Table, 4 Chairs to slip under, Rocker and Arm Chair. 1 Sea Grass set of 5 pieces, and 50 other pieces. This Store Will Become a Strictly Baby and Kiddies' Shop Omaha Reed & Rattan Co. 16th and Jones Sts. Douglas 2043 73 - ILK IFLMIS . , . ., -.... , - . .. . j ... . , . ( . Makes Strong, Healthy Children A ddiciousy appetizing food, ready for serving as it comes from the package . Moderrr food scientists recommend the use of barley as a strengthening J6od, as it is rich in mineral salts, which play an important pkrt in body economy. Nat WiKl I ... t Large size package of whole some, nutritious food Order a package today from your grocer tions which may become serious can go to them either before their babies are born or afterward with the babies They may remain perhaps a day, per haps two or three days, or a week. Their trouble is diagnosed and simple remedies are prescribed. New York has its stations .where mothers can go with their children for aid and advice and to obtaain the right modified milk for their babies, and its low death rate shows the value of the work, but it only reaches the poorer classes of people. The whole outlook, as'regards the health future of any country, is bound up in the problem of training and educating girls to make them fit for motherhood, and capable of caring properly for their babies. Children in a War Garden Window One merchant in Texas who is mak ing a window display along war garden lines used kindergarten chil dren with little hoes and rakes, hav ing them go through the motions of planting a garden. This novel window was devised by a piano house. 3i In Previous Wars Planning our menus these days has brought us close to our sturdy fore fathers. When we think "what can I have for dinner with so many limita tions" a shaming second thought of what our grandmothers did in early days puts us on our metal. Good old-fashioned hominy was one, of the sustaining foods of the founders of our nation. Hominy is truly an American dish. The Indians were eating hominy long before white men saw North America. The first colonists foutd it wholesome, appetiz ing, strength-giving, nutritous, and adopted jt as their own. It was intro duced into Europe as a rare and ex pensive delicacy and today a large part of our people consider it among the most delicious of our native foods. To prepare hominy properly it takes matiy hours of slow careful cooking and several changes of water. For this reason many people do not know this "wholesome and delicious food. But canned hominy relieves you of all this work and gives you practically ready-to-serve this food which found such great favor with our forefathers. , A quality brand of hominy is the whple grain of white Indian corn, cooked first in lye water and then thee times more with repeated washings. It comes to you with the old-fashioned flavor and with thor ough preparation and cleanliness. It is first cooked for 45 minutes, which loosens the outer horn-like husk of the corn, and then it is thoroughly washed in clear water before again being cooked for 40 minutes, and washed again. After this second washing it is given a third cooking of 55 minutes and then given a final cleanng before being hermetically sealed in the big cans in which you receive it. After being placed in the cans it Js subjected to a final cooking of an hour and ten minutes in superheated steam, which thoroughly softens the entire kernef and prepares the light, numness, making a hominy dish su perior. Uncle Sam Takes Time for Babies Babies! Looking up from his moh umental task of burying one kaiser Bill, Uncle Sam has found time to care for the citizens of the future your baby and mine. And in the city of Omaha we have babies. One may be a pound over weight and another possibly a pound short of ringside Qualifications, but. all in all, the registration of Omaha's youngest generation has shown that the average is right up to what the united Mates government desires. Here and there is found one which has not received the proper care, but in the future aid will be given in these cases to make a better man or woman in years to come. Civilization, true to its complica tions of the twentieth century, de crees that the baby shall have his ex- Kafe Douglas Wiggins says: "If we do not give children i is very find men' childhood sure that we sh; lacking in manhood.,, The Buyer at Matthews , Book Store believes this saying to be true, and the mothers who want books, and educa tional games should visit this store. 1620 Harney St. perts as does his father and mother. Trained nurses are in a special hospi tal to usher him into the wor'.d, baby furniture stores stand ready to supply his need of a bed and expert shops to make his frills to wear. Even to take his first picture tl;:re are the children, experts, and as he grows older the in genuity of man has been applied in special foods, producing health and growth. And not to forget that there is mind as well as body, literature for . the mother and for the growing child is a special study in itself. ' ,f Bringing Belgian Children Back To Health The Belgian information bureau re ports that the. children's department of the Belgian government has added Jo its program since February, 1917, the creation of open-air sanitariums for debilitated children between 3 and 12 years old. "For this purpose it appealed to owners of unoccupied country houses and chateaux. The appeal was not made in vain. Twen ty-nine chateaux have been placed at the department's disposal, and it has also opened 36 colonies. "The children for these establish ments are chosen in the canteens for debilitated children. They spend six weeks in the colonies, where they are carefullv nourished. Between 4,000 and 5,000 Belgian children are taken every month from the alleys and courtyards of the larger cities into the country air, besides many French children from occupied communes, who partake of all the help given to the Belgians. ' ' . "Recently the department has en larged its operations by setting up day cures in urban centers. To these are removed, for 30 consecutive hours at a time, debilitated children between 2 and 12 years of age. Even this short outing does the children a, noticeable amount of good." Colorado Interested In Child Welfare The Woman's Council for Defense for Colorado says that it is preparing to do its share to decrease infant mortality during 1918, which has been designated by national authorities as children s year. Mrs. James Rao Arneill. chairman of the child welfare department of the council, sent letters to all the county women's councils for defense urging them to choose leaders for the work and to organize for it. , "Children's year" began April 6. the first anniversary of Ihe United States participation m the war. : In many counties ot the state the chairmen of the child welfare com mittees serve as leaders. In others special leaders are being named by the chairmen of the county councils. . States Ready for "Baby- Saving" Campaign Twenty-nine states are organized for the baby-saving campaign of the federal children's bureau and the woman's committee of the Council of National Defense, according to Dr. . Jessica Peixotto, head of the child' welfare department of the woman s committee. The states conspicuously ready. Dr. Peixotto reports, are: Illinois, Con necticut, Indiana, Kansas, Massachus etts, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island and Utah. St. Louis and New Or leans are the cities mentioned as best organized to carry on the campaign. . r'pw - 1 "Pep" ijh Baby's Picture - - V ANY normal .child has a boundless store of "Pep" and "Ginger." But it tests the mettle of even the be st of photographers to get a child sit ter to DISPLAY this "Pep" and to squeeze the camera bulb at JUST the right moment. v j We are never happier than when making Children's pictures. Delighting in the work as we do, we cannot fail to impress upon the sensitive photo-? plate JUST the pleasing whims, smiles and graces that make lovabjie chil dren's pictures all the more appealing.' . , K you've a little Lad or Lassie at your home, have some photos made the kind with "Pep." REMBRANDT STUDIO ARLEY Made in Omaha by CSU m BREAKFAST F00DX0. OMAHA. NEBRASKA V Ji The Uncle, Sam Breakfast Food Co. Twentieth and Farnam Omaha