hould frequently sponge her baby
in hot weather,--and explain thoroughly why these are important
details,--is a work of true religious charity. They should be taught to rid
their houses of flies, and especially to keep them from the baby and from
its food, bottles, and nipples. They should be instructed to discontinue
milk at the first sign of intestinal trouble, to give a suitable dose of
castor oil, and to put the child on barley water as a food until the danger
is passed. They should be taught to know the serious significance of a
green watery stool, that it is the one danger signal in the summer time
that no mother can ignore without wilfully risking the life of her baby.
They should be shown how to prepare special articles of diet when they are
needed. If every mother were educated to the extent as indicated in the
above outline the appalling infant mortality would fall into
insignificance. It is not a difficult task, nor would it take a long time
to carry out; it is the work for willing women who have time and who
perhaps spend that time in less desirable but more dramatic ways. It is
education that is needed, and it is education that is willingly received,
as all mothers are ready to devote their time in the acquirement of
knowledge that will help them save their offspring. This is the eugenic
opportunity and it is an opportunity that should devolve upon the women of
the race.

Such a mothers' club would receive the willing financial support of the men
of the community. It should be placed upon a sound financial basis because,
to be successful, it would have to bestow much material aid. I know of
clubs that are self-supporting, however. Each club needs a leader to begin
it; will the reader be that one in her Community?

A Mothers' Eugenic Club would of course discuss the practical side of [57]
the eugenic question: the proper feeding and clothing of children; hygiene,
sanitation, housekeeping and homemaking, and the efficiency and health of
each member of the home, and all other topics of interest to every wife and
mother. The writer believes that in the very near future we shall have a
Mothers' Eugenic Club in every community in the United States; that these
clubs will be guided by, and be an instrument of, a National Eugenic
Bureau, composed of women, that will cooeperate and harmonize the work as a
whole, so that the conservation of human life will be effected to its
maximum extent; that the excessive infant