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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
Sense In Baby Care
Dr. Jacobi Says Mothers Today Read Too
Many Long Books About Infants.
Dr. J acobi then praised Nathan
The Mayor's Baby NN'eek, for
Straus
for his quarter of a cen-
"better parents, better babies, bet-
ter city," was formally Opened at a tury's work in giving the babies of
meeting in the Casino Theater, New New York better milk.
"Dr. Jacobi has been my silent
York, when Dr. Abraham Jacobi
partner
in my milk work for 25
said that he wanted every woman
to learn that in caring for babies years," said Mr, Straus. "I asked
they should use less that they got him what to do when I started the
from books and more common work. Ile told me and I did it.
That's why I succeeded. He tells
sense.
"If you women have read many you to use milk diluted with barley
hooks," said the venerable physi- water. 1 have distributed 100,000,-
cian, "so much the worse for your 000 bottles of that."
Mr. Straus explained that his
babies. You are reading too many
books about babies, 400 and 500 milk was distributed in round bot-
pages long. What you should learn tom bottles so that it could not be
can be written in a very few pages placed on a table in a tenement and
get contaminated before the baby
—the hygiene of babies.
"As a general proposition, all ba- got it. When he was asked if the
bies are the same when they are pasteurized milk he distributed
born. However, there is a general should be also sterilized, Mr. Straus
belief that the poor babies are most said:
"A man once received a telegram
deficient, the most defective. That
is not so. The most defective ba- that his mother-in-law was dead and
bies are born in your high society. asking whether the body should be
There is no more stupid, more de- cremated or buried. He replied,
fective, and more idiotic class in 'Do both ; take no chances.' "
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise paid an
the world than the ruling families
eloquent
tribute to the work done
of Europe. Unfortunately at pres-
for
babies
by Dr. Jacobi and said
ent they cannot be put away in
"We shall not have done enough
asylums, but you can separate them
from their people, and that is com- for the babies until the state ,says
ing, and the world will be better off that no mother shall work for three
when they are put away. I'm not or four weeks before and after the
talking politics ; I am talking com- birth of her baby."
"We want no baby born into this
mon sense.
world
whose parents are not fit to
"Now, as a doctor who for sixty
years has had to do with babies, 1 bring the child into the world or to
tell you that the baby who lives rear it properly," he added.
The Rabbi condemned what he
through the first week generally gets
thought
would come in Europe—
along all right. And that brings me
the demand of the state that there
to the lesson I want to teach.
"It is generally supposed that a he more babies without particular
baby should lose weight in the first attention to other details of their
few days—until its mother is ready coming.
"This is making woman only a
to nurse it. That is wrong. A baby
should gain from the start. Until baby-machine," he said.
its mother has food ready it should
be fed and not starved. It should
An Artist In Captivity
be fed water with a little salt and a
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little sugar, perhaps with a little
barley or oatmeal water. \\'e arc of the ocean of life rose before him ;
advised by the German doctors to the air became full of agreeable.
feed babies tea with sacharine in it, pleasant odors ; rainbow colors ap-
but I tell you that that is poison.
peared in their clear-cut forms, the
"You ask we what is the best stars in the sky flamed as the eves
food for babies. I say milk. Whose of pretty women on the earth. And
milk? Mothers' milk.
heroism appeared in all its pride,
Nathan Straus Talks on Milk.
and love in her perfect charm.
"The trouble in New York City * * And when the Muse vis-
is that there are too many women ited him, heroes he created who
so. . busy keeping engagements to went to war and conquered worlds ;
play cards that they haven't time to and maidens he created with fresh
nurse their babies. They plead all eves, who danced with swords and
sorts of excuses but I tell you that lances ; gods and goddesses who
a half century of practice has shown emerged from the ocean with the
me flit 19 out of every 20 women sea-foam on their bodies * *
can nurse their babies and should
And the people ran after the art-
be made to do it. Thirteen out of ist. and followed. and did homage
every 20 babies that die in New to hint : and gold and silver and
York City less than a year old die diamonds they poured out to him ;
because their mothers didn't nurse and with odorous flowers they
them:7 ',.`
showered him.
``Cow's - rtilk should not be given
Only a small circle of people sur-
raw. It should always - be- boiled—
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