This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...dressed and then placed upon a feather pillow, which most likely has served for this purpose for generations, and then tied up securely in this so that only the face was seen? Or, have you ever called upon a Polish family and found the mother busy at the wash tub, with the floor of the kitchen all wet with soapsuds and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...dressed and then placed upon a feather pillow, which most likely has served for this purpose for generations, and then tied up securely in this so that only the face was seen? Or, have you ever called upon a Polish family and found the mother busy at the wash tub, with the floor of the kitchen all wet with soapsuds and in midst of this was the baby sitting on the wet floor, clothed only in a thin cotton slip, without diapers, but with a heavy knitted cap on its head, bare-legged, but with patentleather shoes on its feet? Understand me please, I am not making fun of these poor ignorant people, I am only relating to you what you will be sure to find in your daily work, after you leave training school, and I am trying to explain to you ou meet these babies in the hospital and disy. look at the reverse side of the medal; go to the of the wealthy, to the residence streets, and to irks in the fashionable neighborhood, and watch ile babies in charge of some elderly practical nurse tas ignorance and conceit written all over her face, you take a look at these babies you will find that. r of them are perspiring because they are overbed; they have on a knitted jacket and a heavy coat their other clothes. Over their diapers they wear er drawers so that they do not wet the feather bed a which they are resting, their head is buried in a her pillow, and they are covered with a thick comer, and all this when the temperature is 70 above o; but then the nurse will tell you that it is April ording to the calendar. If you could look into that jy's home you would find that the baby stays in a nn the temperature of which is never lower than 70 d that it is always overdressed and therefore in a ntinuous Turkish bath, so to say. Do you understand )w what I mean when I state that t...
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