Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buck, 21, feeble-minded state asylum inmate, with a feeble-minded mother and a feeble-minded illegitimate child, protested sterilization proceedings against her. Counsel argued that sterilization was never justifiable, that Miss Buck was being discriminated against since many a feeble-minded woman not under state care was continuing to propagate the species without molestation. With only Justice Pierce Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such...
...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
...child's life, and the first creeping stage, before he has begun to stand or walk, is the time to begin teaching him to avoid them. Long before a baby can climb onto a bed or chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue to draw him gently downward until...
...Presently the mother can vary the procedure by letting him crawl about on the bed first until he nears the edge, whereupon she should turn him face down and help him with his backward slide. He will soon learn to get into the proper position by himself when he sees the edge near...
...Author is Humorist Irvin Cobb's only daughter. Her looks are from her pretty mother's side. About as big as a minute?an exciting minute?she took to writing when other girls her age were seeing how their hair looked "up." The pleasant New York landscape (near Ossining) amid which she spent her 'teens is distinguished also by the estate of Publisher George A. Doran...