Another Sheaf
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHILDREN'S JEWEL FUND The mere male novelist who takes pen to write on infants awaits the polished comment: "He knows nothing of the subject-rubbish, pure rubbish !" One must run that risk. In the report ...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHILDREN'S JEWEL FUND The mere male novelist who takes pen to write on infants awaits the polished comment: "He knows nothing of the subject-rubbish, pure rubbish !" One must run that risk. In the report of the National Baby Week it is written:-"Is it worth while to destroy our best manhood now unless we-, can ensure that there will be happy, healthy citizens to carry on the Empire in the future ? " I confess to approaching this subject from the point of view of the infant citizen rather than of the Empire. And I have wondered sometimes if it is worth while to save the babies, seeing the conditions they often have to face as grown men and women. But that, after all, would be to throw up the sponge, which is not the part of a Briton. It ia written also:- "After the war a very large increase in,the birthrate may be looked for." For a year or two, perhaps; but the real after-effect of the war will be to decrease the birth-rate in every European country, or I am much mistaken. "No food for cannon, and no extra burdens," will be the cry. And little wonder! This, however, does not affect the question of children actually born oron their way. If not quantity, we can at all events have quality. I also read an account of the things to be done to keep "baby" alive, which filled me with wonder how any of us old babies managed to survive, and I am afraid that unless we grow up healthy we are not worth the trouble. The fact is: The whole business of babies is an activity to be engaged in with some regard to the baby, or we commit a monstrous injustice, and drag the hands of the world's clock backwards. How do things stand? Each year in this country about 100,000 babies die before they have come into the world; and out of the 800,000 born, about 90,000 die. Many mothers become p...
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