CRADLE ROLL.

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 218, 18 August 1913, Page 14

CRADLE ROLL.

Dear Fellow-Workers, — All W.C.T.U. members should be interested in the Cradle Roll work. The aim of the department is to enroll little children of any age under seven years, who are dedicated by their mother* or guardians 10 total abstinence. No child can be a member whose mother takes alcohol during the period of nursing, the alcohol being thus transmitted to the child. The environment of child life iYom its earliest dawn, freed from alcohol, will give U* in every country the ideal little While Kibboncr, healthy, strong, and pure. This 1* foundation work for our White Ribbon army. The Superintendent arranges meetings for the mothers of the Cradle Roll babies, “who feel the need of all the help thev can secure from other intelligent mothers, that they may give to their children the* best possible care, training, and environment, in order that they may become* citizens and homemakers of whom they will ever be proud." 1 have some papers suitable for reading at Cradle Roll mothers’ meetings: Assorted packet, containing one dozen, po*t free, sc!; Cradle Red! pledge cards, boy or girl, post free, is per dozen; Maori Cradle Roll pledge cards, po*t free, 1* per dozen; Cradle Roll birthday cards, boy or '4lll, post free, o<l per dozen. I* aflet on how to organi*e a White Ribbon Cradle Roll, free. I would also recommend for distribution two medical Temperance leaflets, “Alcohol Injures Children" and “Alcohol and Nursing Mothers,” each 4d per dozen. 1 rusting that every Union will endeavour to take up the work of this department. Sincerely your* in the work, CLARA M. NEAL. N.Z. Superintendent.