An analysis of the Paris statistics for the last six months reveals a diminution of the death rate among mothers and children and a decrease in the number of children born dead.
Dr. Pinard further asserts that an extensive comparison of living children with those born earlier shows that the average weight of "war babies" is considerably higher than it used to be. This he considers due to the giving of natural instead of artificial nourishment by the mothers in consequence of the more serious attitude they take to their duty to the State.
This, says the professor, is one more instance of the spirit of regeneration animating France.
No Premature Peace For Russia
Proceedings at Opening of the Duma, Petrograd, Feb. 9, 1915
[From The London Times.]
PETROGRAD, Feb. 9.
The main impression left upon all who attended today's proceedings in the Duma may be summed up in a few words. The war has not shaken the determination of the Russian people to carry through the struggle to a victorious end.