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Show Molhercraft In Germany In Pictorial Review for April, Mabel Potter Daggett tells of the great nation al institutions in Germany for the con servation of babies. Wo quote the following: fol-lowing: It was before the booming of cannon began, before the shrieking sound of shot and shell shrilled high above all tht; quiet pursuits of pence. A baby s'ept sof tly on a pillow in litllo glass encased house set in a r-hmi.ig white hospital room. II - w. is a liny mile of h I'nani y, cl nl in m i.-l. tli:mi:mive woolen knickers and a little peaked woolen cap to keep him warm even in the high artificial heat of the glass house so specially prepared for him. On the large white pillow, he looked so uncanni ly unearthly, like a little red gnome from some far-away other world. He was still on his way to this one. Yet in the dreamland, he was but slowly emerging from among his clouds of glory. A grave scientist in a white linen gown, came solicitously in, closing the door carefully after hirn, stood bv the little glass house looking in at the small occupant for a critical moment, and nodded his head in approval. A white linen nurse decorated with an order in a gold monogram bespeaking the highest proficiency in her calling, tiptoed in and examined the thermometer. Came then a lady with billowy hair and kindly eyes, and laying a finger on her lips, she, too, advanced cautiously, looked in at the little glas house and smiled in atisfaction. Here was a baby who, when he should awake to this strange new world with his first taint cry, would find an empire waiting on his call. Across the beautiful beauti-ful white corridor there is another white shining room, the girl mother who had given birth, rested comfortably after her travail and pain. She lay on a soft mattress between linen sheets, and though she was quite without a Pfennig to pay for the service, more white linen doctors and w-hite linen nurses attended to i.er every need. Afterward there were rows of girl mothers like that in ihe hospital -"-ard. There were more babies in little glass houses and utht r.-you r.-you might have heard already cry i i if; thtrir way lustily into life, without anj incubator aid. Down the hall babie? coutd ui d counted their toes contentedly contented-ly in little white cots in the nursery. Out in the garden there were babies 1 ing in baskets beneaih the sun-flecked shade of the trees. Tnere were, liti r-ally, r-ally, babies all over the place. For th i -is the great laboratory of the baby, the most famous in the world. Tne scientist who nodded in approval at the progress of his handiworh tat day, was H.-rr Prof. Dr. Arthur Keller, Germany's greatest child specialist. The lady who smikd in satisfaction was Her Majesty K tiserin August i Victoria. In this institution, she had laid the orner-stone of the great campaign on behalf of mother and child that has placed G'-rmany in the forefront of the j nations in the establishment of the j scie- ce of mothercraf t. |