Life — February 21, 1907 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Some try to get the feathers off of hats; some try to keep them on. Some, again, try to come between the soldier and his grog, but not with results that seem as yet to be entirely beneficial. One sure thing— not the only thing—but one sure thing in the doing of which women’s usefulness is absolutely undisputed, is putting babies in the way of grow- || ing up sound and healthy, and making good people. And babies are an especially attractive object of care because, as yet, they are so innocent and so deserving. They have no sins and no bad hab- its. They do not drink or smoke, nor beg in the streets, nor run for office, nor diffuse heresies, nor break the laws; they do not care for money nor for anything that money can buy, foreby it be a little milk; they are not infatuated with society, nor do they wish to excel one another in beauty or deportment; they do not play bridge, nor gossip, nor suggest improvements on marriage, nor read the newspapers or unsuitable books. As yet they have done nothing wrong and they cannot be pau- perized. They are a perfect object for human care. And as to these babies in this hospital, even the race-suicide question does not enter into dis- cussion, for they are all born now, and whether there should have been more of them or less of them is not a thing that needs be considered. It is an incomparably great achievement to raise anything like a first-class person. The bet- ter the start that enterprise has, the better the chance is of its successful development. Babies have always been supremely important. Nowa- days they are even more important than they used to be. It is understood that there are fewer of them to a family than used to be, so they are more important because of their increasing rarity. But they are also more important because they are a less precarious property than they were. ‘The last census report says that, of the babies that are born, three reach the age of five for every two that reached it fifty years ago. Our chances of living our lives well out are not so good as they were fifty years ago, for the census says that for the various ages between sixty and one hundred the death rate has increased from seven to twenty per cent. Our chances of living from sixty-five to one hundred years are not as good by about fifteen per cent. as if we had begun life fifty years earlier, but citizens who begin life now have a chance a third better to reach their fifth birthday than they would have had if they had begun life when some of us did. They say that the reason we don’t last as long as our fathers did is that our lives are more excited and luxurious than theirs were, and the nervous strain of living is greater than it used to be. The reason why a larger proportion of the babies survive infancy is that raising babies is bet- ter understood and practised now than it was fifty years ago. What is more, the improvement must be chiefly in cities, because there has been an enormous movement of population toward the cities. one advantage the city has in the matter of raisit babies, and children generally, is that it gives them bettermedical and surgical care. The coun- try beats it in all the other particulars. The air is better in the country; there is more sunshine there; there are better places for children to play; 288 7 Ot Interest To Artists THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for ILLUSTRATIONS ARTISTS ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT PIC- TURES ILLUSTRATING ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION $250 will be paid Jor the best illustration of 1. Oh wad some power the giftic § To see oursel’s as others $250 will be paid Jor the best illustration of 2. When lovely woman stoops to folly.—Goldsmith. $250 will be paid Jor the best illustration of 3. God helps them that help themselves.—Benja- min Franklin, $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of 4. Knowledge is power.—Lord Bacon. $250 will be paid Jor the best illustration of 5. In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.—de Rochejoucanld, $250 will be paid Jor the best illustration of 6. Those who dance must pay the piper. —Old Proverd, $250 will be paid for the best tllustration of 7. For if she will, she will, you may depend on’t: And if she won't, she ‘won't; so there's an end ‘on't.—Acron Hill $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 8. None but the brave deserves the fair.—Dryden. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 9. But ne'er the rose without the thorn. —Herrick. $250 will be paid Jor the best illustration of 10. But there’s nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.—-Meore, $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 41. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.— $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 12. In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.—Tennyson. Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars will be paid for the best illustration of each quotation, the awards to be made by the Editors of Larr. Five Hundred Dollars Additional will be paid for the best of these twelve drawings method of awarding this prize will be anoounc If one of more of the quotations should fail to inspire illustrations suitable for use in Lire, there will in that particular case, or cases, be no award Illustrations and all correspondence concerning this contest must be addressed to Tux Qvotatioy Eprtor or Lire 17 W. 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