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Show COWS FOR THE BABIES. Just nqw, when Salt Lake is having so much trouble with its milk supply, it is interesting to read of the report of Dr. W. A. Evans, commissioner commis-sioner of health of Chicago, in which he says his department has been the recipient of three first-class, first-class, tuberculin-tested dairy cows, the milk from which is to be-used exclusively for babies. Edward Tilden was the giver of two of these cows, and Edward Ed-ward X. Hurley gave the other. Mr. Tilden last year gave the city one cow, the milk from which contributed to the recovery of seventeen infants who had been close to death; He was so satisfied with the result of his gift last year that he gave two cows this year for the same purpose. In an interview concerning the gift of three cows to the city of Chicago, Dr. Evans said that fourteen babies died in one day in Chicago of dysentery, probably due to impure milk. He added that if the department could have given these children pure milk their lives probably would have been saved. Here certainly is a philanthropy that is quite equal to founding a library or endowing a university, uni-versity, and there is not so much show about it. We don't know who Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hurley are, but would suppose they "are a couple of big-hearted big-hearted farmers or dairymen somewhere in the vicinity of Chicago. But whoever or whatever they are, it is plain they have in their hearts a love for humanity, a love for children, ancl they want to see them have good milk and grow up into strong and hearty manhood and womanhood. Certainly in a few years, when the infants who are now benefiting benefit-ing by the gifts of these men have grown up,there will be a small army in Chicago to rise up and call them blessed. |
