But when she came she actually had a baby with her, a real baby. With black eyes great big black eyes, filled with wonder, with a bottle half full of rich warm milk so that the baby was not even hungry. She and the car porter had nursed it all night.

A grandmother was born that night on the sleeper of a New York Central fast train. The boy baby had a grandmother born to him as he nestled confidingly in the bosom of the strange woman who had so sumarily adopted him and fled westward on the first through train. A grandmother, all ready made, grown up, fully equipped to play the part of grandmother-a real grandmother with a heart filled with sensibilities, and a mind stored with sensible abilities.

As she handed him to me, a little bundle of blue wraps and pink flesh and right there at high noon, in the push and hurry of a metropolitan railway station-a grandfather was born. A proud, happy grandfather, ready to do anything or be any. thing for the sake of the little boy so unexpectedly bestowed upon him.

We had played grandmother and grandfather before to many a poor little boy and girl without home or parents until some permanent home could be provided for them. But we were not playing grand. father and grandmother now. This grandchild was "for keeps," just as long as the three of us are permited to live.

Four months he has been with us-our little boy with the big black eyes full of wonder. He has learned to laugh, he knows by sight his grandmother and grandfather, he knows one just a little bit better than the other. But which one it is we are still discussing.

The baby-carriage-the trundle bed-the high chair, the rattle box, the teething-ring, the latest device of nursing bottles, ah me we are going over the same ground we trod years ago when we were raising our other babies-over the same ground again. How queer it seems.

We are doing it better this time, we think. We were young then, and inexperienced. We had cut and dried rules for everything. She had read some books about babies. I was a graduate of medicine, had passed through college, yes, two colleges. We knew it all, she and I did. Knew all about babies, she and I. Grandmothers were old fogies-grandfathers old fools. We knew it all.

But we did pretty well considering everything. But we can do better this time, I guess. In those days I was busy with other things, and so was she. We are busy now, but in a different way. In those days we were busy in trying to make the world over to suit ourselves. In these days we are busy in trying to make ourselves over to suit this great and glorious world in which we are permitted to live. There is

a great difference between these two kinds of "being busy." The first kind makes you tired, brings small results, creates endless friction. The second kind of "busy" is restful, helpful, wholesome.

We are learning many things in that greatest of all colleges, experience.

I had always been saying to those under my advice, that mother's milk was the best, if not the only safe nourishment for a young baby.

Well, perhaps that is true. Nine times out of ten it probably is true. With our first babies mother's milk was a plenty, and we had very little need to experiment with anything else.

But this time it was a case of artificial feeding or nothing. Modified milk, re-inforced by Eskay's Baby Food, was what the child was taking before she found him. We continued with it, but with a protest in our minds.

We were thinking all the while it would be better in every way if a wet nurse could be procured. At last, we were fortunate enough to find one. A healthy girl, who had a baby of her own, but no home. was very glad to come with us. We took care that she should have the best kind of food, at the right time, plenty of it, well cooked. Denied her nothing within

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Everything seemed to be perfect, so far as human wisdom could dictate. She apparently had plenty of nurse for the two. Both quantity and quality seemed amply sufficient. And yet our boy did not do well. He became peevish. His food did not digest well. But so strong was our belief that natural milk was better than artificial, that we clung to the method two or three weeks.

We were driven to alternate with modified milk, trying first one baby then the other. One day on artificial food, the next day mother's milk.

We found to our surprise that both babies did better under artificial feeding. If there had been anything visibly wrong with the mother we could have easily accounted for it. But so far as we could tell there was nothing wrong. She was healthy, happy, digestion good, slept well, and yet her milk did not agree with either baby.

Finally, we went back again to modified milk and Eskay's Food, according to the formula furnished by the Eskay's Food Co., with our own baby.

He began immediately to thrive, while the other child remained peevish.

We found another place for the girl where she was wanted, not as a wet nurse but on account of her baby, and let her go, since which time the nursing bottle has been substituted for mother's milk.

Surely no baby could thrive faster than he is thriving. No baby could be freer

from indigestion or derangement of any sort.

It was an experiment forced upon us, and while it has not entirely uprooted my faith in mother's milk, I have had a lesson in the feeding of babies which has at least slightly modified the opinion I have held so long.

Doubtless there are a great many babies in this country that are not thriving on mother's milk, that would thrive if put on properly prepared artificial food. However, I am not jumping at any conclusion because of one experience. But I feel quite confident that at least in cases where the mother is fretful or worried or is subjected to any conditions that interfere with digestion or a proper amount of sleep, or is indulging in any excess calculated to disturb her nervous system, that an artificial food can be devised that will be far better than such mother's milk.

My experience, to be sure, has shown me that in some cases at least the artificial food is better even where no reason can be discovered where the mother is not wholly fit to nurse her baby.

I am not intending, however, to say that the food as we have prepared it is the only or even the best artificial food that can be made. It is the only one we have used. It has given perfect satisfaction. Indeed, I am astonished at the result. There may, however, be other foods that would have done equally as well.

My former attitude toward artificial foods has been that they were useful more as therapeutic agents than as a regular diet for infants. That they did supply a very important want in many cases, even when the child is nursing its mother, but especially where the child is deprived of mother's milk.

But that any child could thrive as our child has, and be so exceptionally free from digestive or nutritive disturbances, subsisting wholly upon artificial food, without any change except as to quantity and richness, that is almost new to me.

Doubtless many of my readers may have known of similar cases. If so, I would like to hear from them. No better subject could possibly be imagined for The Columbus Medical Journal than the experience of parents with baby foods.

From time to time, no doubt, I shall be talking about babies, based on our experience, and I invite discussion among my readers.

It does not make a particle of difference with me that the makers of these baby foods do not think it worth their while to advertise in The Columbus Medical Journal. My opinion of their foods is not altered in the least by their attitude toward me.

As a matter of fact, I presume the makers of such foods are afraid to advertise

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in The Columbus Medical Journal, for they know quite well they would be boycotted by the doctors and the medical journals who differ from me on medical subjects. I am quite content to let it go that way. I shall first see to it that I am furnishing my readers those things I believe and practice myself, honestly giving the whole truth as I see it, without fear or favor. I shall be content to do this, even though I do it at a loss financially.

No doubt many of the mothers who read these lines are as competent as I amperhaps more so-to advise mothers as to the care of nursing babies, but I feel sure of this, that to assist other parents in such matters the experience through which we are passing now will be worth more as editorial preparation than book knowledge or the information received at medical colleges.

Come, now, let us talk of our babies and see if we cannot help each other.

The Social Evil.

By Clara Newman Murray, 2003 San Antonio St., Austin, Texas.

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HE ideal life is a happy home, with a kind and loving husband and father at its head, and little children around the family hearthstone, with both father and mother realizing their sacred charge, and walking in holiness before God. Every true woman longs for such a life, and the young girl has beautiful dreams and visions of such an ideal existence. How great the disappointment when she learns from bitter experience that such earthly Edens are mostly dreams. Far better to live in single blessedness and never feel the clinging arms of dear little babes about one's neck than to marry a debauched man and take the risk of unkindness, unfaithfulness to marriage vows and cruel disease and the operating table; a life of suffering and an untimely death.

I believe there are pure men in the world -men who value their own personal purity as highly as women do. I would not like to live in this world if I did not believe that I meet and know such men. Should women take the stand regarding impurity that they ought to take, men would after a time look at this evil in a different light and our sons would have a better chance to grow to pure and noble manhood. Surely there can be no physical necessity that means such a terrible degradation and slaughter of womanhood.

The laws of our land do not protect the female sex as they should. A study of the age of consent laws of our different States as they are now, and as they have been, prove this. It is almost impossible for woman's wrongs to be redressed

through our courts. If the girl is at an age when the law is supposed to protect her, there are so many loopholes through which a man can escape that if he has plenty of money and a shrewd lawyer he often escapes justice, and the questions with which our gentlemanly lawyers ply the poor girl in their efforts to obtain the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, are so indecent that it is enough to destroy the last vestige of self-respect she may have.

Did not I know positively how these poor victims of man's inhumanity are plied with vile and humiliating questions in our court rooms I could not believe that any man could so far forget his native chivalry. If the poor victim refuses to answer, or has spirit enough to protest in vigorous language, she is fined for contempt of court. If the woman has passed the age of consent, any attempt to right her wrongs through the courts generally means only the greatest humiliation and defeat. Witnesses are not lacking to testify that the woman's character was not above reproach, even though they compromise themselves. Witnesses have been brought from long distances sometimes to give such testimony.

People who read accounts of such trials know how universal this is. It seems that women are at a disadvantage in law from start to finish, if it be true as stated that had Billy Whitla been a ten-year-old girl, and had made no more effort to escape from her captor than he did, and though the man had taken advantage of her innocence to rob her of her virtue, it would have been absolutely impossible to convict him of kidnaping.

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May God speedily avenge the wrongs of women. Their blood cries out day and night unto Him. The social evil is the most serious and complicated vice that the world has ever had to deal with. "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes, but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee unto judgment."

There is no evil that causes such suffering and disease (often to the innocent), nor which causes so many divorces, and as much unhappiness in married life. It deprives the wife and children of their proper support. The wife working and economizing to the straining point to keep her family decently clothed and fed, because "times are so hard" and "business is so dull." It is an expensive vice, and one which fattens the pocketbooks of specialists in vile diseases-and quacks. Surely a man pays dearly for his folly.

It is stated by some that late marriage is the cause of the great hold this evil has taken upon our country. How can this be when our boys in their early teens practice this evil? Some of them before they are thirteen years of age are ruined for

ever.

One mother told me that her boy nearly died at the age of fourteen because she did not know what was the matter with him, and did not employ a physician soon enough. Our houses of ill fame are freely patronized by married men, and married men support their mistresses in far better style than they do their wives and children. In view of all this early marriage cannot be expected to prevent this evil.

This sign begins November 25, 6:32 a. m., and ends December 22, 5:53 p. m.

People born under this sign belong to the creative trinity, the same as Libra and Scorpio. And yet, notwithstanding they belong to the creative trinity, they have a different disposition. Negative in disposition. More apt to say No, than to passively submit to what other people say. They are not so inclined to go forward and take a positive position on any subject, as they are to wait until some one else has expressed an opinion and then criticise what other people say. It is. great deal easier for such people to say

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No, than to say Yes, to negate than to affirm.

If they see a contrivance made by some other person they immediately try to pick flaws in it. Their brain is set to work at once to create another machine that shall improve the one they are looking at. They will at once say, it ought not to have been so-and-so. Or it should have been made this way or that way.

This disposition of mind not only applies to contrivances and machines and inventions, but also applies to every-day life. In looking upon the deeds of other people they can instantly see some flaw. They never entirely give their consent to any one's program. They have a program of their own slightly different from the one that they are criticising.

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The Sagittarius person does not go on and invent programs or implements. He only invents such things after he has seen some one else's invention. He does it in a spirit of protest.

This sort of a person would be very destructive and disagreeable were it not for the fact that he belongs to the intellectual type of the creative trinity. As stated in previous lectures, the Libra subject is animal in feelings. The Scorpio is emotional, while the Sagittarius that we are now considering is intellectual. He is finding fault. but he is doing it with his intellect. If he was negative and emotional he certainly would be unbearable. But being negative and intellectual his wellfounded reasons for his objection neutralize the disagreable features of his constant negations. Here we have him capable of creative ingenuity, criticizing other people's ingenuities, finding flaws and faults everywhere, and yet doing it intellectually.

In temperament he is phlegmatic. That is to say, when he once takes a position he is inclined to stay there.

On the whole he is a very useful person in society. He is not easily led. He does not attack. Is not one of those restless, iconoclastic fellows who seek to tear down without any provocation. Not that at all. But once present to his mind any proposition or show him any contrivance, he finds some way to say No. He is not the fellow who will invent a piece of machin ery, but he is the fellow who will improve upon it the moment he sees it.

Such men make excellent machinists. They do better in a subordinate capacity than in the capacity of a leader. Their initiative is not strong enough to hew their way out into new fields, and yet they have original minds and bright intellects that cause them to scan closely the doings of others who undertake some new enterprise.

They realize in the concrete form the passage of scripture that reads: "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Their negative disposition puts everything to proof. Their creative tastes make it possible for them to suggest something in the place of the thing they have criticized. Their intellectuality gives them excellent abilities to explain their creations and their negations.

Then, to crown these active qualities, they have the phlegmatic temperament which holds them steady in any new attitude they may assume.

Sagittarius subjects do not find themselves very congenially related to those born under the sign of Virgo, Leo and Cancer. But Sagitarius, Scorpio and Libra are very uncongenial to them. They can get along better with people born under the signs Aries, Taurus and Gemini. But

the people they like best are people born under Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.

Remember the caution that I have already referred to several times, that these antipathies and affinities must be taken with considerable allowance for a great many modifying circumstances. But the suggestion is well worth the study. Try it and see if it is not true. That is the way to get at it. It is simply a study of human nature reduced to specific examples, and gives the readers of The Columbus Medical Journal a new text each month to attempt to apply either for approval or disapproval.

Like all other theories, it should not be taken too seriously. When it works, accept the evidence gratefully. If it doesn't work, no matter. Nobody is injured, even though the theory should be disproven.

I have been dabbling with this subject for many years, and I have noticed one thing, that those who submit the claims of astrology to actual test are the ones who have the most faith in it.

I stand ready to answer any questions that may be asked by any of the readers of The Columbus Medical Journal.

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Movement as a Remedy.

By Rev. Dr. J. B. Bernthal, Oakwood, Wis. HE want of exercise, which arises from a sedentary occupation, tends to diminish the circulation of the blood and of the respiratory organs and is a frequent cause of disA very fair amount of exercise is very needful to health. The best of all exercises is walking, if possible mountain walks. However, care should be taken that the legs do not do all the work; the other parts of the body should also get their share of exercise, and thus be able to enjoy all the advantages of the good open air. The chest may be increased in capacity by crossing the arms behind the back, by placing a stick between the back and the arms bent at the elbows, by doing easy gymnastics with the arms.

In the course of a walk it is a good thing to stop from time to time and to take a long and deep breath through the mouth, whereas during the rest of the time it is far better to breathe through the nose. When the air is inhaled thus through the mouth it may be kept in the lungs for a few seconds. Sawing, splitting logs of wood and gardening are also very healthful to the body.

The same may be said of some games, as baseball, football, lawn tennis, etc. Medical gymnastics are of great utility. Their object, as well as that message of which we spoke a while ago, is to favor the exchange of matter as much as possible to facilitate the circulation of the blood and of the lymph, to help the functions of the