Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Cruelties of Nurses. [ARTICLE]

Cruelties of Nurses.

Servants employed to look after the little folks are. as a rule, so anxious for their own pleasure that they frequently slap their charges into submission in order to be free to gossip with their confreres below stairs. This course of action usually takes place at bedtime, and any frolicsome disposition on the part of little “wide awake” is, according to the personal observation of our informant, speedily reduced to a- condition of sobbing and sleep, owing to the employment of methods known only to these guardians of these treasures of the home. There are other atrocities also practised on children by their nurses, which savor of actual cruelty. If these cases are numerous, can it be possible mothers are unaware of them? Is it that the duties of society so completely take up both time and attention that the doings of the nursery are unknown to the mothers of the little dwellers therein? Motherhood is a far nobler office than social leadership, and the little souls commended to a mother’s keeping are greater treasuers than the diamonds that are the envy of all other women in that circle in which only the elect move. Therefore these human jewels should be guarded with a constant and jealous eye, and their caretakers should be chosen with due regard to their mental and bodily welfare, instead of selected at random simply to get somebody who will be capable of keeping the children out of sight and hearing when company is around, by whatever means, fair or foul, they choose to employ.—[New York Telegram.