Checking System Applied To Babies

Checking System Applied To Babies

In some of the New York department stores babies can be checked like so many umbrellas, while their mothers pursue the elusive bargain from counter to counter. A small boy is detailed to stand guard over a certain number of infants. The small boys and the infants have not been asked for an opinion, but the mothers are enthusiastic in their approval. In Brooklyn the checking system as applied to babies has appeared in a new form. Brooklyn being recognized as the city of churches, the new development is naturally along the ecclesiastical line. The Rev. Dr. "Wiley of the Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal church is the originator of the scheme, and the mothers are once more the gainers. A large room has been fitted up with hammocks and cribs, perambulators and toys. Here a volunteer committee of young women assembles every Sunday morning, and here the mothers, who "would otherwise be kept at home, leave their babies, while they themselves attend the regular church service. The plan is a novel one, but promises and deserves, to be popular. - Harper's Bazar.