HOME AND EDUCATION

...Mother's milk is the best of all foods for babies...

...Miss Putnam's welcome dispelled all our fears for her...

...Nurse the baby regularly, never oftener than every two hours during the day, and four hours during the night...

...Make use of ferryboats, recreation piers, vacation schools, parks, and roofs...

...From 1S92 to 1897 Dr...

...We who had come in the hope of comforting, were comforted...

...AIR Give the baby fresh air day and night...

...Give the baby only good milk, prepared exactly as the doctor directs...

...Miss Hunt is no, longer associated with Mrs...

...Drop on greased tins...

...WATER Wash the baby whenever the diapers are changed...

...He was one of the first to take up broad social questions from the legislative end, was the first experienced charity worker to enlist in the Massachusetts Civic League, and helped secure the establishment of the State Board of Insanity, the taking over of the Boston Insane Hospital by the state, medical inspection in the public schools of Massachusetts, playgrounds, better probation service, the juvenile court, better laws dealing with tramps, with drunkards, and many others...

...A New Sort of Woman s Page" By SELENE ARMSTRONG HARMON In the "Cincinnati Enquirer" ONE OF THE CLEVEREST and most read-able woman's pages in the country is edited by Belle Case La Follette, wife of Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin...

...In 1875 he became physician to the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, and from 1898 to 1910 he was also president of the board of trustees...

...Putnam was one of the founders, in 1873, of the little-known but extremely important Boston Society for the Relief of Destitute Mothers and Infants, which was a pioneer in establishing the policy of keeping mother and child together, and was president of the society until his death...

...I remember on my first visit to his much-loved shanty in the Adirondacks I came to believe that if, when walking up a mountain, you happened to want anything, from a piece of maple sugar to a volume of Shakespeare or a box of paints, you had only to look under the nearest stump and you would find that Dr...

...The eldest, Fola, is on the stage, and is the wife of George Middleton, the playwright...

...The time at his disposal seemed always to be indefinite, and he had no observable bias as to hours...

...College offers you at least two valuable details of opportunity: a large variety of people to know, and a large variety of means to make yourself worth knowing...

...In addition to this she gives these readers frequent glimpses of the interesting personalities with which she comes in contact during a Washington season...

...She was probably the first editor of a woman's department to go on a strike against the conventional formulas for hair dye and the accepted recipes for beauty...

...She had lived through the Civil War in her young womanhood and had believed no sacrifice too great to free the nation from slavery...

...Senator and Mrs...

...In hot weather give the baby a cool sponge several times a day...

...Death is as natural and inevitable as birth and I believe we should meet them in the same spirit...

...An alert and trained intelligence is the essential requirement which modern society makes of its women...

...We went at once to the Putnam home on Marlborough Street...

...Recently when T spoke in Boston at the Twentieth Century Club on race segregation in the District of Columbia her sympathy and approval had a depth and strength that came out of a life-long devotion to a cause...

...Putnam was for a generation the backbone of social work in Boston...

...He was the son of- Charles Gideon Putnam, M. D., and Elizabeth Cabot Jackson, both -of Boston, and grandson of Dr...

...Putnam was among these last...

...La Follette in their early youth were students together at the University of Wisconsin...

...La Follette, like her husband, is an ardent advocate of equal suffrage...

...His sense of humor, indeed, lived always just beneath the surface...

...Putnam became connected with it, and he by his skill and devotion again reduced it by two-thirds or more...

...A loose cotton shirt and diaper are enough on hot days...

...When we were, told that "Miss Lizzie" was not well but would see us in her room, we feared to find her broken by the loss of her brother...

...Ten bottle-fed babies die to one that is breast fed...

...La Follette inaugurated in the first issue of her husband's paper a woman's department after her own heart...

...And I knew she spoke out of a deep inner conviction...

...be sorry that he went quickly...

...And then there are the essential men, those without whom the thing will not be done...

...James R. Chadwick in founding the Boston Medical Library, of which he was an original member in 1875, an incorporator in 1877, and which he served upon important committees until his death...

...CLOTHES The baby feels the heat more than you...

...Putnam was among the earliest supporters of Dr...

...Putnam had been since the beginning of his practice of medicine a leader in charitable and social work,—almost from the beginning the most important leader of such work in Boston, the first to take hold and the last to let go of each new and important enterprise...

...Though the fact is not generally known, she is a pioneer in the establishment of a new sort of women's page...

...Putnam's most distinctive characteristic was the power of enlistment...

...He graduated from Harvard College in 1865 and from the Harvard Medical School in...

...It was she who questioned me as to my impressions of the colored people in Washington and encouraged me to write "The Color Line" for the Magazine...

...Now she cannot...

...soldiers with names known not alone to Boston but to the nation-Shaw, Putnam, Savage, and many others...

...The ordinary death-rate in such institutions was at that time something over ninety per cent, a year...

...she said...

...Since he must go, we could not...

...Do not wean the baby in hot weather...

...La Follette have four children...

...Putnam took a leading part in the very important movement for the reorganization of the Boston Institutions for the care of prisoners, of the poor, and of poor, neglected, and delin quent children, being on the special committee appointed by Mayor Matthews in 1892, chairman of the board of visitors of 1S93-94, chairman of the standing committee on pauper institutions of the advisory board appointed by Mayor Quincy in 1896, a steady fighter for the reorganization bill of 1897...

...Hints to Home-makers CHOCOLATE MACAROONS...

...With Miss Caroline L. Hunt, former professor of home" economics at the University of Wisconsin, as assistant, Mrs...

...For some years she has made it her contribution to the suffrage movement whenever a request to do so came from any organization in Washington, or nearby...

...Keep the baby quiet...

...we would not wish him to live and suffer...

...Do not nurse the baby every time it cries...

...The pictures on the walls were the feature of the room...

...He was active in the campaign against tuberculosis and a director of the Mental Hygiene Association...

...There Were some of the great generals of the Civil War and, Lincoln of course...

...In her spacious living room there was a piano and comfortable couch and chairs, but everything was very simple...

...Charles Putnam, had passed on...

...Mrs...

...It Was a privilege to go up to her floor of the fine old house...

...We have all looked to him to do the hard things—to take up the new line at which the timid balked and which the unimaginative could not see, sustaining the old from which the glamour had worn off, stiffening up the weak places, making the hard decisions...

...Keep the windows open all day and all night...

...La Follette in her work, so the latter now gives most of her leisure time to her editorial duties...

...The Massachusetts Infant Asylum had already brought the rate down to less than a quarter of that figure when Dr...

...Home and Educati on Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE A Tribute AS I SHARED my friend's joy in arriving at her beloved Boston, so I sensed the pain that was hers when she learned that during her absence, the family physician, her lifelong friend, sympathizer, adviser and co-worker, Dr...

...Noise or unnecessary handling is harmful...

...Ever since their graduation from that institution they have been profoundly interested in its advancement...

...The other children are Robert, Philip and Mary...

...continued his medical studies for a time in Germany, and began the practice of his profession in Boston in 1871...

...And then these two women who had given so much of life to human betterment, talked of how this good man had advised and helped at every turn...

...Since that time he had carried on a general practice, though for many years he made a specialty of pediatrics and did some excellent pioneer work in orthopedies...

...Charles Pickering Putnam, who died on April 23 last in his seventieth year, was born in Boston September "15, 1844...

...Give b,aby plenty of clean, cool boiled water to drink...

...When the new system of separate unpaid boards of trustees was established he was appointed a member of the Board ,of Children's Institutions, and was its chairman from 1902 to 1911, performing in that capacity a great and harassing, though invisible and unappreciated, service to his fellow-citizens...

...Bake in moderate oven...

...and he was always one of the sustaining members of that society in the real, not the conventional, sense, working in many capacities, as president of a conference, as director, as chairman of many committees, including the present important one on inebriety, and, since 1907, as president...

...One of their sous is at present a student there, and they expect their two younger children to attend the same institution...

...I hope, my son, that you will avail yourself of both of these details.—E...

...Time was, perhaps, when she could succeed socially, and as a wife and mother, by being merely sweet and pretty...

...In each of the many services he undertook it seemed to those he served and to his fellow workers as if that must be the only thing he had to do...

...She is a fluent speaker, uses a conversational style of address and is always independent and fearless in her expression of opinion...

...Do not ask your neighbor advice about feeding, ask your doctor...

...Besides there were the family pictures, fine faces all of them—many Were of the coming generation, "nephews and nieces in college, entering life, full of promise, already achieving...

...When I had first visited Boston, I had met Miss Putnam, a sister of Dr...

...you felt rather than observed the spotless cleanliness...

...He was a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School on diseases of children from 1873-75 and a clinical instructor on that subject 1875-79...

...She not only keeps her readers informed on all the movements of the day which touch upon child life, the home and the progress of women along their various lines of endeavor...

...IT IS IMPORTANT to know people, but it is more important to be worth knowing...

...For this fine old Boston family combine with their culture and high thinking an inherent and practical appreciation of nature and out of door life, that is apt to characterize the true New Englander...

...Senator and Mrs...

...To many of those who saw him, Dr...

...IF THE BABY VOMITS OR HAS DIARRHOEA, STOP ALL FEEDING, AND GIVE COOL BOILED WATER, SEND FOR YOUR DOCTOR AT ONCE...

...He was one of those who in 1879 took part in the movement for establishing the Associated Charities, the second charity organization society in this country...

...REST The baby should sleep alone...

...There were the young men she had known in her girlhood, who will always be young because, they died young...

...In 1898 he was elected president of the American Pediatric Society...

...He gets thirsty as well as you...

...He was here, as in all things, a man to accept responsibility, take the burden on himself, and carry it,— a patient and successful physician to the community as well as to the child...

...That was, that woman has made progress...

...La Follette conducts a department for women readers in the weekly publication which her husband edits...

...Putnam was a remarkably resourceful man and would reconstruct his patients' world, physically as well as morally, by his calm assumption that anything needed could be done, and in hundreds of cases by doing the most impossible parts himself...

...3 Squares chocolate 3 Eggs (whites) 1 Pound of pulverized sugar 1/2Teaspoon of Vanilla Melt the grated chocolate over boiling water, add gradually the sugar, lastly the well beaten whites...

...Along with many other activities for human betterment she has always been a loyal friend of the Negro...

...Putnam, a woman well known for her good works and public spirit...

...James Jackson...

...does not consider the topic of dress beneath her dignity as a writer, and often enlivens her pages with some lively chat on lighter topics...

...He helped organize and carry on the Directory of Nursss...

...Whatever happened, however badly things might go, whoever else became lukewarm or discouraged, his associates knew that he, at least, would see the thing through, that he had enlisted for the war, intended doing as much, be it more or less, as might be necessary...

...In hot weather remove most of the baby's clothing...

...How To Keep the Baby Well FOOD MURSE your baby...

...He served the Boston Dispensary as district physician from 1871-76...

...There is no evidence, known at least outside his immediate family, that he ever ate or slept, and three in the morning was apparently the same to him as three in the afternoon...

...The response which the serious treatment of these themes has aroused among my readers, however, proves the truth of what Miss Hunt and I argued to our friends some years ago...

...Later Miss Putnam said to me...

...1869...

...Despite advice to the contrary from experienced editors, she decided to give her readers from the start stronger intellectual food than vaseline and cold creams...

...Keep the milk always cold and covered...

...In an extraordinary number of instances Dr...

...Slower minds thought him slow at laying the first brick, whereas he had completed the whole structure in imagination, and was hesitating what kind of chimney-pot to use...

...Putnam had anticipated exactly that need at that particular spot...

...Putnam's impersonation of the policeman at the Charity Workers' ball a year or two ago (I personally took him for a real cop), and of the very "disturbed" patient who brought down the house upon the same occasion, was a revelation of an unsuspected quality...

...I once saw him "cure" a small child's hands by putting on them a couple of envelopes as mittens...

...In short, Dr...

...I have written," she says, "upon the supposition that no subject is too broad, too dignified, too advanced for women readers...

...There are in every enterprise the helpful men, the wise, the brilliant men, the steady workers...

...S. Martin in The Atlantic Monthly...

...And scattered about, I observed snap shots of mountains and lakes and rare camping spots...

...And the best was the power behind it all in the great kind heart, that would see and know only the best, and, with a quality like the sun, could sec only light wherever it was turned...

...She brought us a copy of the Boston Medical Journal wheih had this tribute to her brother: CHARLES PICKERING PUTNAM, M. D. Dr...

...Putnam had a fairy godmother quality, as many of us know...

...I was advised against conducting a department which should deal seriously with health, education, child training, suffrage and other matters of vital importance to women...

...If you cannot nurse your baby, consult your doctor before giving it the bottle...