Keeler-Bailey Family, 1828-1928

Baby Week Window Shows:

Local Merchants will Co-operated and Make First Displays on Saturday

(Contributed by Local Baby Week Committee.)

Yesterday's meeting of the executive committee of the Baby Week campaign in Danbury completed most of the details of the project which opens this week Saturday. Danbury shows she is progressive by getting in line with the largest cities in the United States in this work.

Thousands of cities and towns throughout the country will observe the week of March 4 to 11 in the promotion of infant mortality and child welfare.

Saturday morning will witness the enterprise of store keepers as well home keepers and club women, for many store windows will display everything from layette to juvenile wearing apparel, baby foods, toys, photographs, books and hundreds of other articles. A mechanical advertising device is in the works and it is hoped to have it in working order in one of the local windows and the advertising columns of the News will keep all in mind of the special lectures to be given. One of these is of pertinence for it brings to Danbury Prof.  C. E. A. Winslow, of Yale college. Prof. Winslow, rerently director of the division of Public Health Education in New York state and editor of Health News, resigned those posts to accept the A. M. R. Lauder professorship in Public Health at Yale university. He is of world-wide repute in his chosen field and those who hear his lecture on Child Welfare in Odd Fellows' hall, Wednesday evening, March 8, at 8 o'clock, will enjoy a treat---not a dry, uninteresting lecture, but a talk full of instruction and helpfulness and cheer. At St. James' Parish House, Saturday, March 11, at o'clock in the afternoon, Miss Mary Brennan,  the visiting nurse will illustrate how to prepare modified milk, very important subject; Mrs. Matilda Collins, the school nurse, will talk on Children and Dr. Annie Keeler will be heard on the Care of Infants. The lectures and talks will all be free to the general public and will undoubtedly be well patronized, as they deserve to be.

The home life is the foundation of the nation, says a member of the local press committee, and the babies are certainly a very important part of the home, so conservation of infant life and thorough knowledge of child-welfare but contributes valuable quotas to the future work of community and nation.

Along the line of co-operation by the ministers of the town, it is announced that Rev.  E. B. Barber, pastor of the Universalist church, plans to deliver an illustrated lecture on ``The Children of the World, '' this week Sunday evening.

The pupils in some of the school grades are writing essays for the week.

Circulars containing the following helpful information will go into the homes of babies through distribution by the Boy Scouts:

Best Care For Babies.

•     Mother's milk is the safest food.
•     Modified milk is next best for babies.
•     Feed the baby at regular intervals.
•     Give clean water to drink between feedings.
•     Keep everything out of baby's mouth but its food.
•     Give baby daily bath and clean clothes.
•     Wash diapers after every using.
•     If bottle-fed, wash bottles and nipples in boiling water with soda and rinse before using.
•     Keep milk cool and free from flies; flies carry disease.
•     Have baby keep alone.
•     Keep baby quiet, do not rock it.
•     Baby, sick or well, needs fresh air night and day.
•     Keep sunlight out of baby's eyes.
•     Give baby no solid food until after teething.
•     If baby is ailing, call the doctor---do not wait---it may be too late.

Baby Killers.

Soothing syrups with opium in them, pacifiers to suck, tea, coffee, lemonade, beer, long tubed nursing bottles.

Come to the Parish House, West street, at 2 p. m., on Saturday, March 11th, and hear the talk on babies by Dr. Annie Keeler, the talk on children given by Mrs. Matilda Collins, school nurse, and see Miss Anna Brennan, the visiting nurse, prepare modified milk.

March 8th, at Odd Fellows' hall, at 8 p. m., hear Prof C. E. A. Winslow, of Yale, lecture on ``Child Welfare.''

Admission to all these is free to the general public.