PALACE FOR BABIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 8 April 1911, Page 10

PALACE FOR BABIES.

SUNLIGHT AND FLOWERS INSTEAD OF SQUALOR.

The energetic and advanced methods of Mayor Seidel and his Socialist colleagues of the City Council of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are proving most displeasing to wealthy residents of that city. The Council's latest enterprise, which has roused a storm of indignation in the fashionable Grand Avenue district, is the conversion of one of the palatial mansions into a municipal maternity hospital. *

The mansion, which belonged to a millionaire named Schandein, had been unoccupied for some time, and the municipality offered to purchase it. The sale was effected, and, to the rage and dismay of wealthy neighbors, the Mayor announced that it was to be used as a hospital for poor mothers. The mansion, which contains 10 fine rooms in its three storeys, is surrounded by beautiful grounds, and this experimenting Council declares that babies born in happy, beautiful surroundings will make far better citizens than babies whose first view of the world is distorted by squalor and misery. The little ones are to be greeted by sunlight and flowers iustead of poverty, and skilled nurses will be in attendance where they could not be available in the shim districts.