8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A HBH'SP.IPER FOR THE H/JMB Pounded iSjr Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH FIUXTING CO., Telegraph Bulldlne, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOL.E, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. ST>EINMETZ, Managing Editor. I A Member American rl Newspaper Pub -rgjvg Ushers' Assocla aSi tion. The Audit Bureau of Clrcu yE|M latlon ar.d Penn- BTa sylvunla Associat es «I Eastern office, Has gt Kh brook. Story & HI BJ Brooks, Fifth Ave SS nue Building, New ££jff ern office, Has brook. Story tion of sewers, which are paid for by city. Same may be tapped by , property owner paying $1.25 per root front of the property to be tapped. 1 Smile! The world Is all too sad for tears. 1 I woud not weep, not I, But smile along my life's short road, , Until I. smiling, die. , The little flowers breathe sweetness out Through all the dewy night; i Should I more churlish be than they, And plain for constant light? THE CARTOON OF THE DAY DUE FOR AN INTERRUPTION BETTER CARE By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON is Just at the end of a Baby Week. From the the sixth to the thirteenth of May the National capital has been turned over to the National Federa tion of Women's Clubs for their bet ter-babies exhibit and propaganda. One of the most important features of the week's program is the exhibits and conferences of the Washington Diet Kitchen Association, which has work ed so vigorously during the past few years to cut down the infant mor tality of the District of Columbia. The whole nation has recently be come aroused to the need for taking better car® of its babies. The Chil dren's Bureau, which has conducted exhaustive researches on the- subject of infant mortality and investigated the problems of several representa tive communities, last year opened an Infant Welfare Station at the Panama Pacific Exhibition, where large au diences were lectured on the proper care and feeding of babies, many of whom were examined and treated on the platform. In New York city, pam phlets on the proper care of infants have been distributed in seven differ ent languages in an affort to reach every mother who might possibly save the life of her baby with the aid of a little knowledge and advice. In Louis iana and Texas, exhibition cars are sent into the rural districts where practical demonstrations are given to instruct the mothers how best to care for their infants. Here the Washing ton Diet Kitchen Association has opened five infant welfare stations to act in the nature of training schools for mothers. The Washington Diet Kitchen Asso ciation was first established in 1896 by a woman philanthropist, for the purpose of supplying milk and other nourishment to the sick poor. The society grew but slowly and in 1901 considered dissolving entirely, owing to the lack of finances with which to meet administration expenses. But at this juncture the Visiting Nurse Society of Washington came to the rescue, of fering its services in the distribution of broth, milk and eggs to the poor on its visiting list. Subsequently, upon the recommendation of the health de partment, the distribution of broth and eggs was discontinued and only milk was delivered free. In 1908, the first milk stations were established by the association at Neighborhood House and Noel House—social settle ment houses —and later another at St. Mary's Chapel. It soon became apparent, however, that the need for free milk was rela tively unimportant as compared to the need for proper instruction and training for the business of mother hood. In the poorest districts the ma jority of the babies were fed on human milk and in other cases the families were able to pay for good, clean milk. The association also realized that if : they were to b(* successful at all they must do all of their work themselves, employing special agents for the pur- I pose and not depending absolutely on I the Visiting Nurse Society as a med- [ OUR DAILY LAUGH §J UST THE I hear the la dles are organiz ing a Monday Morning Club. What's it In tended for? For ladles who already belong to (six afternoon I presume. Harry proposed 4 to me four times * In two weeks. Ksnfil i'&xtrfa- "1 Whom do you suppose he is \QCjf practicing up for? gSrajßaflfcAflS WANTED—A SAFE! By Wing Dinger A friend of mine, who, with his wife, Sometimes gets round our way, Called at our house, the other night. At cards a while to play. I mentioned the infrequency With which the families met And my desires that oftener We might together get. Friend's wife replied: "I've wanted to Come often heretofore, But hubby has begged oft. so that O'er Journals he might pore. And thus in work keep up-to-date— I've acquiesced in past, But I've served notice on him now The last time was THE last. "One of those periodicals I looked through t'other day. To get a hint of what It said In a technical way— I delved through it, and then my throat Filled up with gasps and choices— Ohe page was scientific stuff. The other sixty,. Jokes." JUNE 3, 1916. ium of distribution. As a result, a large charity entertainment was given at the residence of a Washington so ciety woman, the proceeds from which were turned over to the association and used to establish headquarters for the first infant welfare station. This was in 1914. The experiment was at once a success, and to-day there are five of these infant welfare sta tions in the poorer districts of the city, with a staff of twenty-eight volun teer physicians, a superintendent and eight nurses. Each station has one large, well-lighted, well-ventilated room, equipped with plain white fur niture that would be within the in come of almost any home. In one cor ner there Is a white screen on which is hung the model baby outfit. Including a small woolen shirt and band, a flan nel petticoat, a white petticoat—not Insisted upon—and a white dress made of longcloth or nainsook. The gar ments are fastened with strings on the shoulders, so that there will be no tight bands around the baby's waist to give him indigestion or interfere with the expansion of his lungs. Here the mothers foregather and have their conferences learning the principles of hygiene and home sanitation. On back of this room is a small kitchen where the babies are brought after the.v are weighed and examined by the physician, who advises the mother as to the baby's health and. if necessary, prescribes a formula for ar tificial feeding. The nurse in charge then takes the mother over to the gas stove In another part of the room and shows her how to prepare the milk with materials kept for that pur pose by the kitchen. The Diet Kitchen, is not, primarily, for sick babies, although it handles many cases resulting from malnutri tion. If the infant has any serious trouble, the mother is given a card to, a dispensary or a hospital. It is es sentially for well babies, and its ob ject is to keep them well; for It is a la mentable fact that motherhood, the one professional monopoly of women. Is often the least understood. Routine at the Infant Welfare Cen ter runs something like this: The mother of a young baby hears of the Diet Kitchen—either she reads about it in the newspaper, or a neighbor tells her about It. or perhaps a visiting nurse of the society that used to deliv er the milk, explains Its advantages. So a day or two later she takes the baby to one of the stations. Here he is registered on a card of application, and the mother is told to bring him the next week. A baby must be brought twice in two weeks before he may be enrolled on the records of the station, in order to prove that the mother ls\ actually interested and In tends to come regularly. The second time he is undressed, weighed on a large set of scales In the front room and then carried into the kitchen to be examined by the doctor. The results of the examination are written on a large record card, together with his date of birth, original weight, history and heredity. THE STATE FROM DWTODW i ■ - i It's never too late to mend, think the romantic younc couple who were the other day granted a marriage li cense to wed, the one being 78 years of age and the other 71. The question is, who will gather at the foot of the stairs to catch the bridal bouquet? A contribution to a Philadelphia peper recalls history in the matte* of kidnaping and cites the instances of the baby of A. Levine, Sharon, who was stolen in 1599, and the case of "Billy" Whital, of Sharon, kidnaped It; 1909. Sharonites don't have to worry for three more years, at any rate, if the kidnaping takes place at such stated intervals. The Warren High School is this year graduating young girls and men of all sts-es, says the Mirror. Helen Hall is tlie heavyweight of the class and weighs 166, while petite Doris Hazel tine tips the scales at Just half that weight. That's the long and short of It. The Philadelphia Inquirer is worry ing considerably about the length of skirts nowadays. It comments pro fusely. as "Suppose Ihe girls would get. mad if we referred to some of those high shoes as hip boots," and "Pres ent day skirts remind us of the song of the frog: 'Knee deep, knee deep.' We see no reason why the girl's can't find a legitimate excuse in blaming it on the war and the shortage of skirt materials. Everybody's doing it. "Japan will become a second Pitts burgh," said Sukuro Yamada, the steel buyer from Tokio, Japan, who has just contracted for $2,000,000 worth of structural steel. Immediately the price of soap in Japan will soar, we foresee. The Gou*lersville band Is in a bad way. There is a violent dispute as to the ownership of band instruments, uniforms, and a set of harness, which was worn by the saddle horse of the band team. A touch of the dramatic entered into the "trail-hitting" that followed a sermon by Evangelist Nicholson in South Bethlehem the other evening. A tall figure wearing a black mask striked In a sinister manner down the aisle, while terrified women nearly fainted with fright. It turned out tl"at he was a Phlladelphlan, and his sanity will be tested. lEtonittg (Etjat Hello, 1b this the editorial room of the Telegraph?" "Yes." "Well, I want to know whether Buchanan was born In Lancaster or Franklin county? A couple of us are having an argu ment here and X want you to decide it for us." The Pennsylvania President was fcorn In Franklin county, he was told, ut a place called Stony Batter. The supporter of the argument that our fifteenth President was born In Lan caster county had evidently been mis led by the fact that Buchanan as a young man in his 'teens studied law In Lancaster. As a matter of fact a $26,000 monument has been raised in Franklin county as a memorial to the < only occupant of the presidential chair who came from the State ot Penn sylvania. • • • Until the question of supremacy is settled between the baseball teams representing the Department of In dustry, and State Insurance Fund De partment, daily business will move slowly on Capitol Hill. According to reports everybody is all wrought up over the claims of each team. Wagers are being made and to-day It was said that friends of the Labor and In dustry players expected to raise a purse of $250. Both teams have an rrmy of backers, and the next game will be for "blood." Some wild rumors spread over Har risburg at intervals. How they start is a mystery. Thursday afternoon It was reported on Allison Hill, in the vicinity of Fourteenth and Derrv streets, that two piers of the Walnut street bridge had toppled over and a number of people hurt. Later came a report from West Harrlsburg that ail automobile had run off the Market street bridge into the river. The only accident that occurred during the aft ernoon was the collapse of several small bleacher seats at the track meet. Two persohs were slightly injured. » • • Progress in the plans for the com bining of the High schools of the West Shore into a Central High School, now being made by the school boards, de pends largely on the Interest taken by the people and members of several of the boards in the move. To date it appears that several of the boards are deadlocked on the proposition and in several of the towns the sentiment of the residents is of a like nature. However, it has been learned by the promoters that the transportation ex penses Appear to be one of the rea sons for the ditference of opinion. A campaign of publicity and education will be started soon. • • • "In what other country in the wide world but these United States could such a thing as a great school chil dren's track athlete meet- be pos sible?" smilingly observed Attorney John A. Herman as he gazed up at trio thousands of excited faces of small spectators at the grammar school track meet on the island. "Why," went on the enthusiastic at torney, "I've traveled a littlp bit abroad but I don't believe 1 ran imagine anything quite like this. Boys and girls together having the time of their lives untrammeled by the careful eye of duenna or chaperon. And this Is Just the thing that helps to make of the American boy and girl th e self-reliant youth whom foreigners so much admire if they can't quite understand." • • * Bockville bridge is quite a shelter place In time of storm. On afternoons when showers come up or thunder storms come along the great arch which spans the Riverside road Is sought by everyone riding within a mile and automobiles and teams are packed into the shelter sometimes to the number of eight or ten. In the matter of religious fervor and heartfelt utterances of religious joy there is no race that can excel the col ored race, as shown by the baptismal service which was performed by the Uev. W. Tolliver, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church of this city on Sunday morning. The rites took place In the Susquehanna river just below Verbeke street, where fiats, boats and canoes and hundreds of people gathered to see the converts "dipped." Coal dirt and mud were as nothing to them in their higher zeal and the happy "aniens," joyful laughter, "yas-suhs," "speak-ons," Zucharlahs, "uhtn-m-ms" and so forth ad infinitum followed one another with rapidity as the frosty haired old men caught the spirit of the occasion and joined their voices to [that of the speaker in cries of enthusi astic approbation. t » • There is printed in the April number of the National Geographic Magazine a picture of the oldest living thing— the "General Sherman Tree," the patriarch of the Sequoia National Park of California. It was 2,000 years old when Christ was born. It was dis covered in 1879 by James Wolverton. a hunter, who gave It the name of General Sherman. It towers 279.!» feet into the sky; its base circumfer ence is 102.8 feet. Its greatest dtam eter 36.5 feet. Who knows the big gest tree in Central Pennsylvania and will he tell us about it? Vain Glory It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search their own glory is not glory. —Proverbs, 25:27. Planning Details of Republican Convention < V - - •• , •••"j l < rnl I t/AMes a «swoii>». Chicago, June 3. With a staft of six clerks from his Washington office, James B. Reynolds, secretary of the Republican National Convention U working over the details of the huge conclave.which convenes here on June 7. An almost Inconceivable multitude of details confronts those who are ar ranging the convention.