ANOTHER SPECIAL TRAIN TO SEATTLE
A special train from Chicago to the National Conference of Charities and Correction to be held at Seattle July 5–12 is being planned by a group of charity organization society workers. Others who wish to go, however, will be welcome to join the party. If the number reaches one hundred, a special train will be provided, leaving Chicago Sunday evening, June 29.
All day Wednesday will be spent at Banff and Laggan. The train will remain on the tracks at Laggan, departing early Thursday morning to give an all-day trip through the Canadian Rockies. The party will arrive in Vancouver on Friday and proceed to Seattle by boat. The day’s sail down Puget Sound will be broken by a stop of three hours at Victoria. Return is possible by any route preferred.
The cost of the round trip from Chicago will be $63, not including sleeper.
The committee arranging for this trip is Francis H. McLean, Eugene T. Lies, Fred S. Hall and James Minnick. Those planning to travel with this party should buy round trip tickets at their homes and arrange for sleeper reservations through James Minnick, Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, 10 South La Salle St., Chicago.
A WORKING MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN
When a mother has to work, what is she to do with her young children?
In co-operation with the Child Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation, the Edison Company has produced a motion picture film which is one answer to the question. The reply, as given in the Kinetogram, a semi-monthly bulletin of moving picture news, is that “she should board her baby with some mother who is capable of caring for and feeding another child than her own.” The film is described as follows:
“In this picture the mother has twins, one she boards with a foster mother and the other is put into an institution because the foster mother will take only one. The mother of the twins is compelled to do this because so handicapped she cannot get work. The work of the care of infants in an institution is shown and the only fault to be found is that the individual attention that an infant must have is lacking, owing to the fact that a nurse in an asylum often has as many as fifteen babies to care for alone. That is where the infant suffers. It is not, however, due to any fault of the nurses but to conditions. In this case the fostered child lives while the institution child does not. Seventy per cent of asylum babies succumb while seventy out of a hundred live where individual care is exercised.”