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When my child came along and I had to get a baby nurse, I got a good baby nurse, a graduate of St. Christopher's Hospital, trained for baby nursing. I got her from a home bureau. They had plenty of them. I must have interviewed four or five before I made my pick. The one I took was their most experienced and their highest priced nurse. I paid her ten dollars a week. That was in 1916. That was very high, but that was expert, special care for infants.

I remember these things because they were part of the way I figured my costs. It did make a difference in my way of life and in my attitudes. As I look back at it now, I realize that at the time I married, while. I fully intended to complete every project upon which I was working - legislation for women and children, fire legislation, factory legislation, and the whole pattern of the factory law - I had anticipated that I would work at it more less as Mary Dreier and Anne Morgan worked at it. I expected that I would be an advisory and board member, but would take perhaps a little more responsibility and lead than they did because I knew more and had been more deeply involved. I didn't anticipate going an at quite full-tilt professionally.

This double name seemed natural too. So far as my professional work was concerned, I would carry on my name and correspondence, but I wasn't upset by the idea that





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