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April 26, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE HEALm WEEK RECALLS ! sometimes in stores, sometimes in settlements or the field houses of public · JNFANT WELFARE WORK of parks, where signs mark the location . the Infant Welfare stations. From these small centers of medical and Agency Sponsored by Chicago social knowledge, in districts approximately a mile square, the staff of the and North Shore People Inf~nt Welfare society works. Twice Renders Invaluable Service a week a staff doctor holds conferences By Observer May I is National. Child Health Day ~o proclaimed by President Hoover' who is also president of the America~ Child Health association, and the week of April 28 to May 4, in Chicago and suburbs, is Baby Week, in which the Infant W~lfare society of Chicago asks everyone 111 general and in particular to give his spedal attention to the benefit~ that are brought to the babies and . under-six-year-olds through it~ service. Th~ intensive work of the society in teachmg mothers modern scientific methods of caring for children is done in the most congested and poorest sections of Chicago, where living is most hazardous and where the infant death rate would normally be highest, but the breadth of the influence radiating from the society's work is hardly calculable. Working Score of Yeua For nearly twenty years the Infant Welfare society has been working on this problem of child health from every possible viewpoint, and it has reduced the death . rate and improved the hea.l th of Chicago's chilciren to a marked degree. From the earliest days of the work, when a program was started of getting- pure milk for the habi~s and distribt!ting it properly modified to mothers 111 the poorest districts of the city, the scope of the work has grown. Today, the mother is taught not only the right feeding of her child but everything that modern science can offer in knowledge of proper . s<mitary conditions, hygiene, r~creahon and good behavior, indivtcl.~al and social. Physical defects whtch stand in the wav of health development are observed and corrected before they can affect the growins · child's health and his future well being. The Scene of Action How is this brought about? \Vhat sort of picture' does this phase of the city's life present? l\ot far from the ~oop: P.erhaps twenty minutes away, 111 dtstncts following the river the railroad yards, in sections lying' back of the Stock Yards and surrounding the steel mills, there are quiet rooms. set up with the clean linen of hospitals and the bright pictures of playrooms. to which mothers bring their children for examination and advice. The rest of .the week the society's trained nurses and the dietitians call on the mothers and children in their homes to show the mothers how to carrv out the doctor's instructions, and to ·demonstrate the proper preparation of food and to teach right hygienic living. If special difficulties in behaviour or eating habits stand in the way of the child's development, the advice of the society's psychiatric social worker is taken, in the effort to set these little beginners on the track of right living. The city's resources of relief of care of the sick, of education, ar'e at the. call of these staff .workers so that real needs need not go untended. Guard Child's Health The work hegins with the prenatal mothers, and carries .on until the babies, grown through their preschool period, come under the supervision of the school medical service. Their physical, social and mental life is watched carefully, and the best advantage that modern science knows is giren them. They arc being put in the way of having strong, normal bodies, with handicaps corrected in every way possible, and with personalities adjusted to getting along with people successfully in groups. Rather a large order, but one which experts are working enthusiastically and successfully eight hours every day, to fulfill. Exhibits in stores, radio talks, motion pictures and articles in newspapers and magazines will bring to your attention all this week the benefits that are being brought to these little childrrn by the Infant Welfare society of Chicago, and you are cordially invited to visit conferences and see the work for yourself. Call the Infant Welfare society and they will be glad to arrange for you to see what they are doing for some of the smallest children who are making their start as Chicago's citizens. Mrs. Helen Hyde Carter has sold her home at l..J26 ·Forest avenue to the Roland B. Smiths. Mr. Smith is a nephew of Royal D. Smith of Wilmette. Mrs. Carter is now making her residence at 458 Winnetka avenue, Winnetka. j. ~ "'V>C , ~ SOCKLINGS - TUMBLEDOWNS FOOTERS; The newest thing in summer socks. Imported and domestic, Fifty cents the pair. = PooL & PtPER = ~ ~ ~ ~ ·INC· CHILDREN'S SHOE 1608 Chicago Avenue ~ ~ l'8l' t:IJ. W 8 TO fl STORE HOURS - lit SPECI~LISTS .,~~t Evanston ~~~~~~~9~~~~~-~~~~~~~ lit lit lit · Truly expPessJVe of Jhe gpea} PaPis crealo~ ape fhese beauliful PepPOduclions bv a · THE SUMMER SC·HOOL ~marl fabPJc 1s oulslandi~. vunexpected placements of fup conlPibufe , desis~eP.luxuryof leading New Yo~ dislinclion. ))pices ,. of eight weeks of enjoyable art training In the studios and out of doors begins July 8 and ends August 31. There are sketching classes along the lovely lake front and In the woods and gardens, and there Is work indoors In the beautiful, spacious and airy class rooms that overlook miles of trees on the shore . line. To those who are Interested to learn what the very advanced methods of this School glve them in the eight weeks' intensive training course we would be pleased to send full information. Tht rtgular dt~y-achool year begins September 9, 19Z9 and enda June 6, 19JO. Et,ening School continues throughout the acbool year. Enrotlmtnta art t~ccepttd tit tl1ll/ timt. Junior Classes meet Saturdav mornings. held well in PeslPain+. Eva Karon Schur, North Shore Hotel Bldg. EVANSTON Inc~ School Exhibit Mag 1 6, 17 and 18 THE EVANSTON ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS 626 CHURCH ST. EVANSTON GREENLEAF 1674