YOUNG MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9593, 3 February 1910, Page 6

YOUNG MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW

That the purest, sweetest and most economical method of preserving, purifying and beautifying baby's tender sKin lies in warm baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle applications of Cuticura Ointment. For eczemas, rashes, itching 3 and chafings of childhood, and for the prevention of minor irritations or skin humours becoming chronic, as well as for sanative, antiseptic cleansing of ulcerated, inflamed mucous surfaces and other uses which readily seggest themselves to women, these gentle emolients • are indispensable. Every mother should send to R. Towns and Co., Sydney, for a copy of the free Cuticura Book on the Care and Treatment of the Skin and Hair.

tative, Commissioner Hay had something more to say about the slums, aud the Army's work there. He drew a picture of the wealthy aristocracy on the one side, aud of tlie poor wretched beings who lived iv the the slums ou the other. It was among the latter of these that the Army officers worked. Thoy kuew of the hunger that existed, of the crime and the vileness; their work brought them into continual eoutact with it, and they were there to alleviate it as far as they could. But they kuew also of the treasures that existed at the bottom ot even the lowest slums, people who, if ouly giveu a cbauco, would make good, respectable citizens. Mrs Hay had worked among tho slum people for over seven years. There were probably somo eight huudrod thousand human beings there whose life was oue long precarious struggle for bare existeuce; people who had lost their chauee of success in life either through misfortune or crime aud vice. Two hundred thousand of these could be classed as those who had fallen through misfortune or illness, aud had not baeu able to get their footing again. The Army, which had been described as the ringleader iv this work, tried to deal with all of them. Tho hungry"were fed, the naked clothed, employment fouud for the workless. missing husbands were traced, drunken mothers and wretched children rescued. Misery, wretchedness aud vice abouuded; harrowing sights, such as we in New Zealaud could have no conception of, were common, and poverty and crime had stamped its almost indelible mark ou thesa teeming hundreds. Iv the winter time eighty thousand children were constantly at the doors of tbe slum hall waiting to be fed aud sheltered. And all this work was most wonderfully managed by women. There were instances innumerable of men aud women who had beeu reclaimed from the depths of infamy to lead sober, respectable lives; instances of people who had suddenly beeu tempted aud had fallen, and then gone down, down, continually down. Oue mau held a positiou of trust, aud was getting a saliry of £800 per aunum. Iv a moment of weakness he embezzled some money, and within three mouths he was ou the Thames Embankment, au outcast shunned and deserted by his people, repudiated ty his wife and daughters. The Army people got hold of him, fed him, clothed him, and helped him *"0 regain ouce more the self-respect that he had lost. Theu there was a woman who, through drink aud bad living, had got so low that she absolutely neglected her live children, and tramped the slums of Lambeth. The Army took tiie children, and fed them and clothed them, and eventually were able to rescue the woman.

Both he and Mrs Hay would convey this message to. New Zealauders: "Beware of letting sin aud vice develop itself. If it does, it will have no mercy; it wili defile legislation, aud it will curse the nation."