Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — PRAISE DUE TO WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

PRAISE DUE TO WOMEN.

To Their Efforts Must Be Credited the Fare-Milk Crusade. The pure-milk agitation that is now being carried on by official and semiofficial commissions all over the country began with the diet kitchens founded by New York women to furnish suitable nourishment for expectant and nursing mothers, bottle-fed babies and sick persons requiring a special diet. At first, says Van Norden’S, they paid little attention to the source of milk supply. To-day file diet kitchens not only give out the certified milk that their crusade has secured, but they keep matrons in charge of their stations to show mothers how to modify milk to each baby’s needs and to give systematic instruction in child care. And here we have another movement started by women—instruction for women in the care of children and the business of home-making. The visiting nurse associations—founded, supported and made up of women—oegan it. Then other organizations, such as the Little Mothers’ Association and the League of Home Economics, took it up. Recently the woman physicians of the country formed a public health-educa-tion league to give a popular instruction—particularly to women—in general hygiene. The 498 day nurseries in America, in addition to giving immensely better care to the children of mothers who have to go out to work than the mothers themselves could do, are carrying on an extensive and intensive campaign of education.