THE SUNDAY OITEGONTAX. PORTLAND. JULY 18, 1915.
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UTTLE BROTH E Pi "PICKS
THE DlteTY TJACIFIEfa
FROM THE PLOOia- AND
GIVES IT TO THE &eY.
THE 51GHT OF IT PLEASES
THE YOUNG5TEE.
INTO OUl ETUDE.
NEW TORK "Out with It I" Bald
Miss Adelaide Thomas, head nurse
of the New York City milk
station In Thompson street.
As she spoke Miss Thomas pulled
out of the mouth of a very tiny baby a
rubber pacifier on which the baby had
been sucking: with much content.
This Is typical of the Health Depart
ment's attitude toward the pacifier,
which is one of the things the City of
New York Is trying: to eliminate in Its
campaign for better babies.
For a nickel, or for 10 cents, if a
very fancy pacifier is desired, a mother
may purchase a whole lifetime of
trouble for herself and child.
The pacifier acts as a main conduit
through which vicious germs may
swarm into the mouth of the child, its
constant use Is responsible for ade
noids, malnutrition, affections of the
respiratory organs and serious diges
tive disorders. Moreover, this deadly
instrument, which Is part of the every
day equipment of at least a third of
the children seen on the streets In all
sections of the country, distorts the
child's Jaw and permanently damages
Its appearance.
Dr. 8. Josephine Baker, director of
the City's Child Hygiene Bureau, con
demned utterly the use of the pacifier
and declared to your correspondent that
It would be a very good thing for the
babies of the country if a law could
be passed prohibiting Its sale.
"All pacifiers are pernicious," says
Dr. Baker.
DR. S. J05EPH I N E DAKEE, DIRECTOR OF
THE CHILD HYOI ENE BUREAU OF NEW YOCN
CITY. WHO WANTS THE EVkBIES TO BECOME
STRONG, MEN AND WOMEN
Is so much to be said agalnrt It and
not a single thing to be aald for It. ex
cept that It makes things easier for
the mother. When the baby cries, if
the mother would investigate the trou
ble instead of thrusting the pacifier
Into his mouth. It would help a good
deal In the campaign to grow better
babies. Babies are much wiser than
you think and when the baby Is first
given a pacifier to stop his crying he
at once learns to cry In order to get
the pacifier. Thus mother and baby
become accustomed to this wretched
habit.
"If. between feeding times, a baby
cries without apparent cause. It should
certainly be Investigated. Often It Is
for some very simple thing that can
easily be remedied. Sometimes the
baby Is only thirsty. Grown persons
seem never to think that a baby likes
a drink now and then. A drink of cool
boiled water Is good for a baby and
will often atop his crying. Then, lots
of babies cry because they have too
many clothes on or their clothes are
to warm or tight.
"The use of the pacifier Is a lasy and
Ignorant habit, but It Is due much
more to Ignorance than to Indolence
In most caeca Many mothers are not
In the least aware that when they stop
baby's cries by thrusting a pacifier
Into his mouth they may be robbing
him of health and happiness In aftr
life.
"In the milk stations maintained by
the city we try to educate the mothers
to throw away the pacifiers, but In
order that the work might be done on
a larger scale I should like to see a
law passed prohibiting the sale of ail
such appliances."
Miss Adelaide Thomas, head nurse
of the city's milk station at No. 114
Thompson street, one of whose dutlee
is the summary removal of pacifiers
from the mouths of all babies who
enter the station thus accoutred, said:
"One of the worst features of the
use of pacifiers is that the babies go
to sleep with them In their mouths
and thus become . mouth breathers.
Their lungs do not develop properly
and they grow Into narrow chested,
pigeon breasted children. The pacifiers
contribute their part to the making of
rickety children and children burdened
with all the Ula of malnutrition.
Resplratery Orgaas Affected.
"But everything about a pacifier Is
bad and nothing Is good. Babies who
sleep with these comforters In their
mouths are frequently affected as to
their respiratory organs so that they
become a prey to bronchitis and bron
chial pneumonia.
"Then. too. the use of the pacifier
robs a baby of his natural right to a
good hearty cry once In a while, and
this crying Is absolutely necessary It
his lungs and digestive organs are to
be developed properly and hts digestion
be of the beet.
"A healthy. well-cared-for baby,
whose comfort Is not neglected and who
leads a normal life. Is not spt to cry a
great deal of the time, even without a
pacifier."
NEW CANCER DRUG FROM PLANT LIFE
THE' NEW BABY TAKES EAGERLY TO THE
INSIDIOUS KJE, THE CHARACTER- DE
STROYING PACIFIER ti'
so. since he does aat eat properly, his
anaemic condition grows worse.
"With adenoids come serious ear
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filthy.
"The pacifier is dropped on the floor,
wiped off with anything at hand and
thrust Into the baby's mouth, without
being boiled, thus serving as an ever
fruitful source of germs.
lassitude or what appears to be
stupidity is also a frequent accompani
ment of adenoids.
Increases Tendency to Tuberculosis.
"Anything that interferes with right
breathing increases the susceptibility
tO COntaKlOUS dise&x.ll- Tha tnHr
"Constant use of the pacifier develops tuberculosis Is decidedly Increased by
adenoids and makes a mOuth breather conditions which arise from the use of
of the child the pacifier.
"This means that he will not take In "As the continual use of this ap-
sufficient oxygen and so he will be- pliance Is apt to make the mouth and
come anaemic gums sore and thus interfere with
The pacifier moves in a vicious feeding, we have another element con-
circle- tributing to malnutrition Serious di-
"As the child has failed to breathe gestive disorders are promoted by the
properly through his nose he becomes use of the pacifier. The child who al-
languld, his appetite is impaired and ways has a pacifier in his mouth swal
lows a great deal too much saliva, be
cause the constant sucking of the com
forter makes the saliva secrete too
freely. This condition Is apt to lead
to collo and digestive troubles.
"When there Is added the Infection
R. W HOMER AXFORD, of the, the development of the drug was with
Polyclinic Hospital. New York, chest affections, and only three weeks
iroused great Interest before ago the first treatments for abdominal
the Medical Society of New Jersey cancer were started. These apparently
recently when he said that In a have been as successful as the first
drug derived from plant life, dlscov- kind. 'according to Dr. Axford.
ered two years ago by Professor
Alexander Horwlta. of Cornell ini- medical profession of the world as soon
verslty. there had been found what ss Its curative properties have been
experiments Indicate will prove a cura- proved without question was the prom
tlve agent for cancerous growths and u 0f rjr. Axford. who said It would
all abnormal cell developments. still be months and perhaps years be-
The new agent, which Dr. Axford fore the research work could be com
said was simple In form, is applied pleted.
hypodermlcally. being as effective If The quick effects of the drug make
placed la a healthy part of the body as It advantageous In the treatment. Dr.
In the tumor mass Itself. Its use must Axford said. Within a few days after
Dr. Silas Besbe, also of the faculty of
Cornell University. Their Joint dis
coveries led them to seek a field for
experiment, and this was readily grant
ed at the Polyclinic Hospital, the ex
perimental work having been turned
That the drug will be given to the over to Dr. Beverldge.
The first experiments with the drug
were In poultices, which were found to
greatly relieve the palrx but did not
show Indications of curative value to
any great 'extent. It was not until a
few months ago that It was prepared
In extract form suitable for hypodermic
administration. Spring Lake IN. J.)
Cor. New York Sun.
this rule on rainy days. The Isst stea
of a car Is a most enviable position In
a downpour and the man occupying It
wtil bless you.
If yous transfer Isn't good, berate the
conductor you offer It to. He didn't
punch It, but he's to blame anyway.
If you get on the wrong car. don't
fail to hand the conductor a piece of
your mind. He ought to make the car
go on the street you thought it was
going on.
If you're a man. never give a seat to
a lady. Half the time they don't say
"Thank you." and when they do they
don't mean It. If you're a lady and a
man offers you his seat, ignore him and
plunk down on It before be gets a
chance to get It back again. It wouldn't
do to spesk to the man; ha might be
long to a lower stratum of society.
Alwsys bicker about paying the fare
with any companions. Those who are
siting are always .-mused by your
mutual generosity.
To the ladles on the pay-enter: Do
not bother having your fare ready, but
get on the car. close your umbrella, open
your handbag, open your purse, hand
the conductor a 16 bill. As "everything
comes to those who wait," the people
behind you have something coming.
If a seat Is Intended for two. be sure
to occupy at least three-quarters of It.
The other fellow hsd no business com
ing alongside of you. anyway. He ought
to have est some plac else.
Always berate the streetcar company.
It Is a very popular practice Just now
and you aren't likely to get hit back.
Particularly if you have never been in
any other city, talk volubly about "rot
ten service."
Surreptitiously take a few puffs when
you get the. chance. You can hide the
cigar if the conductor comes after you.
Every Hlany for Himself.
wa LWAT3 push ahead of everybody
I else. On the streetcar It Is a
arising from the unclean condition of be guarded, however, as the element of the Injection the skin of the patient
the pacifier there is frequently pro- reaction is dangerous, experiments have Invariably clears up and loses Its sal-
Cuced the gastro-lntestlnal diseases shown. The drug has been applied only lowness: there Is soon manifest a les-
which are so serious and so often fatal In cases called Incurable by physicians, senlng of the pain and the tumor
to babies. This is particularly true In who have sent patients to the Polyclinic growth shortly begins to fall away In
Summer, when babies as less resistant for X-ray treatment as a last resort. sixe and weight. Dr. Axford said that
to disease than in Winter. Dr. Axford and Dr. J. Wallace Bev- both he and Dr. Beverldge would still in the words of the poet, every man for
"A minor 111 which may arise from eridge are In charge of the work at the urge the use of surgery In the first himself and the devil take the hind
the use of the pacifier Is the disfigure- Polyclinic More than 200 patients have treatment of cancer, as they had not most.
ment of the child's Jaw. As the Jaw of been treated and only one has died. The been able to take up the disease In Its It Is a clever thing to block up the fooL
a baby is soft the ccn.tant use of this experimental work has not permitted a primary stage as yet. He made this aisle. Having the front of the car May the United States avoid having
appliance pushes it out of place, and thorough test of Its effectiveness In ab- statement, he said, because he could not empty while the back la crowded to to reproach Itself a year or two hence
this disfigurement may be permanent, dominal cancer cases. Dr. Axford said, say what the positive curative value of suffocation tends to sociability. Many with the thought that similar misery
Nothing to Recommend It. this branch having been taken up only the new drug would be. fine friendships have come from peo- and waste might have been avoided
"It seems to me that a strong lh- a few weeks ago. Dr. Horwltt Immediately after his pie being thrown together In Just this by it if It hsd made adequate defensive
dlctment of the pacifier Is that there The first work of those In charge of discovery of the drug consulted with way. Be particularly sure to observe preparation. Buffalo tN. Y.) Express.
COST OK I XrRF.PAREDXESS.
A Canadian officer, writing from the
front to a frtend In St. Catherines. Out,
says:
"All this misery and wests could have
been averted it we could have thrown
1.000.000 men Into France and Belgium
at the commencement of the war, be-
case of first come, first served, or, cause Germany would not have taken
the risk, but anyone who advocated
national training In England or Canada
was looked on as a scaremonger and a