3 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 (Continued from page 2) 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— (Continued on page 5) but only a few minutes." Louis Danto Says: When you need life insurance, you can't buy it at any price. Every tenth applicant is impaired in health and declined. Secure adaquate life insurance before you need it. "Next year's widows will appreciate the benefit of this year's life insurance premiums. Men come and go: the in- surance companies stay, and pay." Act today—for her. Louis Danto Offers: The oldest American company. All forms of life and endowment insurance. Convenient premium settlements. Premiums waived upon loss of feet, hands or eyes, or upon total disability. 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