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Show CONSERVATION IN CARE OF CHILDREK While the urgent tieed for war workors has sot most of us at th .task of inventing new methods o saving labor tho American lied Crosi (6como to be playing a leading par (ln the work of extending tho consor ration idea in various novel and im portant directions. One of tho man; ways In which this wonderful organ tion Is adding to lta army of work-i, work-i, ji is by pooling, as it were, the matter mat-ter of baby-care. It was found thai large numbers of mothers would like to help In the Red Cross work but were hnable to do so because of having little ones to take care of. The Idea of having a single tot of a baby monopolize the entire time of a possible Red Cross worker when two or three clever women could easily care for a hundred such little folks while the mothers worked, struck the Red Cross leaders as frightfully wasteful of labor, and they proceeded proceed-ed promptly to arrange with largtt numbers of such mothers to bring their babies and place them under the care of competent nurses while they themselves engaged In Import, ant Red Cross work. This simple' I plan has not only added to the num-t num-t ber of people available for this wore but It also affords both the mothers and the children a pleasant and healthful change. An extension of this plan throughout through-out the country, both la connection .with the Red Cross aad also la many other directions, seems to be entirely entire-ly feasible aad desirable, for why ShouldmlUions of yoaagsters keep the nerves of millions of mothers oa i edge to rtwenty-four hours each day and seven days each week, when alt of those mothers can secure a tew hours each day tor rest, recreation, or other useful work, by adopting some such plan as the one above-' outlined? , -',, ' '' 'I |