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Tn . : ; . WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1923 WELFARE NURSE WORKS MIRACLES Visitor Cites Hero Work of Winnetka Infant Wel- fare Station CONCRETE EXAMPLES Entire Family Learns Value of Life BY THE VISITOR If you have ever been to one of the conferences of the Winnetka . Branch of the Infant Welfare Sta- tion, you have seen an important part of the work, but still there re- mains much to be learned. To know the whole story one must go with our nurse every day in the week through the streets and alleys and yards and up and down the ten- ement stairs into the home of our future citizens. For it is only through patient and repeated instruc- tion in her home that the average mother becomes a dcer of the work and not a hearer only--the nurse must show her how a baby can be bathed and dressed and aired and how his food-formula can be made up. Sometimes she has to try to dispel the general atmosphere of filth from the room, and sometimes she has to go back of that to dispel clouds of superstition from a mother's mind. Direct Attack Needed . Here sometimes an indirect attack is effective. A nurse once told me how discouraged she felt to find Mrs. Podesti's fifth baby in swaddling clothes and from his odor evidently unbathed for an indefinite period. The mother explained pathetically that the others were girls and it was well known in her part of Italy that you might do what you would with girls but it was very bad luck to let water touch a boy baby. "Oh, but not at ten o'clock in the morning," cried the nurse, "it is al- ways safe at that hour, though at no other." And so Joseph was brought up as clean as his big sisters. Sometimes the nurse has to be con- tent with a little progress at a time. I hear that though the O'Ryan kitch- en is still filthy there is one spot scrubbed on the floor every morning and the baby set in the 'middle of it. When he can toddle perhaps a larger area will benefit. Child May Save Family Then again there are homes where our nurses work a complete revolu- tion little short of a miracle. Of course every relief institution in Chi- cago is at their call, whereas the av- erage destitute person is ignorant of the existence of such agencies. So the little child in their midst is often the means of saving a whole family. As a Class A. Infant Welfare Sta- tion, the work of the Winnetka branch is 'extended to the expectant they arrive, and many a Winnetka 'mothers as well as to the babies after woman has worked on the simple lay- ettes used in this connection. I had always thought of the mothers who needed this help most being those who were looking forward to their first baby but as we read the case records it is easy to see that it is the mother of several children that needs most careful watching for varicose véins 'and other distressing symp- toms as she also needs the greatest moral support. Mrs. Ferroli was such a one. Had Real Good Time When our nurse first found her she was forty-two and in her eleventh pregnancy. She could not work on account of swollen limbs and was about to withdraw her fifteen year old daughter from school to help sup- port this new burden. We procured her a rubber stocking so she could safely walk and persuaded her she could get through without her daugh- ter's help and arranged for her to go free to the Lying-In-Hospital in- stead of employing an inadequate and, for her, expensive mid-wife. When she came back with her baby she said she hadn't had such a good time since she had been married. One of the most striking records we have is of the Cantalano family, brought to the attention of the nurse at our station about a year ago last Christmas. They lived for twenty- five years on a small cotton farm in Texas. They had had nine children, eight living, all of whom had worked on the farm from early morning 'till late at night, none of whom spoke English or had ever been to school. Then the flood had come and wiped out their farm and they had fled to Chicago to their only relative in this country who were almost as destitute as they. Mrs. Cantalano was forty- four years old and seven months preg- nant. Fighting Against Odds The story of the fight that our nurse made for that family against almost overwhelming odds is too long to tell here. The report says. "The home they resided in had probably been used for a shed until the hous- ing shortage, had plenty of draughts, many disadvantages and no advan- tages." All of them were ill and the oldest boy died. Both mother and baby had broncho-pneumonia, pulled through somehow. The baby goes regularly to the Infant Welfare station and weighed over 19 pounds at ten months. The older boys are working but are studying English at the Commons at evenings, the girls are at school and Mr. Catalano has just taken out his first papers. They have paid back $5 that they owed their relations. Without help it is almost inconceivable that the mother would have lived through her delivery. Is the work of the Infant Welfare society worthwhile? If we believe it is, let us share in it to the utmost ex- tent of our ability. NOTED RABBI SPEAKS HERE Rabbi William Fineschriber of Memphis, Tenn., will speak before the North Shore Branch Sinai Con- gregation Tuesday evening, April 17, at 8:30 o'clock, in the Hubbard Woods school, Laurel and Burr avenues, Hubbard Woods. idea. Ride Right ima Black & White. 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Langworthy, Winnetka Village trustee, recently elected a vice president of the Illinois Munic- ipal league, 'last week attended a meeting of the executive committee of that body held at Springfield. The committee met to consider nec- essary legislation for municipalities before- the session of the state legis- lature. WILLYS-KNIGHT--OVERLAND $1,235.00 SALES-ROOM 1549 SHERMAN AVE. Phone Evanston 140 F. O. B. Toledo $525.00 SERVICE-STATION 1324-26 SHERMAN AVE. | Phone Evanston 745 C. H. BRIGGS Skokie Motor Co. Fort THE UNIVERSAL CAP Headquarters for the North Shore 712-714-716 Elm Street Winnetka Authorized FORD Dealers ture. with others. Mr. Armour Said It! "There is no mystery about competing them. Everybody sees the results. But a man may be thoroughly outdone by him- self without recognizing the cause." And with so many business firms being judged in their importance and dependa- bility by their printing, how desirable it is to think seriously about the comparison between your competitor's printing and yours, just as you think of the contrasts between his business and yours. With service such as ours at the disposal of alert business firms, there is no reason whatever for that firm to be "outdone" by itself through neglect of the import- tance of its stationery and business litera- "LLOYD HOLLISTER, Inc. WILMETTE Phone Winnetka 388 They beat you or you beat a hf ST