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...Federation has three mother's milk depots at three Health Stations. Thither come mothers who are producing more milk than their own babies need. They can sell the balance of the day's production and earn thereby enough money to keep from working. If they went to work while breast feeding, their own children would suffer from irregular nutrition. Besides, the energy the mothers need for creating milk would go into work. They could go around as wet nurses. But there too the effect of irregular hours would tell. The foster baby would also probably suckle more milk than...
These times have seen a peak of economic emphasis. It has not only been sensed like a rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While...
...Dawes struck up a very intimate friendship, and every Sunday morning the Vice President's car could be seen taking the two ladies and their husbands from the New Willard Hotel to the Congregational Church. Now the President's automobile carrying Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge still goes thither, but the Vice President's car carries Mr. and Mrs. Dawes to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. And furthermore Town Topics saith the Vice President has a "stubborn streak"; he will not be submerged in the brilliance of the Chief Executive...
There remains to this day a place on earth which eye hath not seen. It is 84° north, longitude 160°, 400 miles from the North Pole (90° north, longitude 00°). is variously known as the Ice Pole, or the Inaccessible Pole or the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility. Thither would men go: for one reason, because it is probably the world's most ungetatable place; for another, because it may be the undomesticated capital of a valuable province...
...habit of asserting that the national debt of Peru is smaller per capita than that of any other nation. Often he remarks with satisfaction upon the large investments of U. S. capital in Peru, and the number of U. S. business men who have gone thither...