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what it meant to be well taken care of. They knew all the long, painstaking preliminary treatment and observation that they had had. They and their friends knew what could happen to you if you didn't have all this. This is interesting psychologically and I've thought of it later, though I didn't think of it at the time. They were also young women completely caught up in the operation of that basic emotion known as maternal feeling, which is very expansive. They felt therefore warm, sympathetic and tender toward every other child in the world. It's a characteristic, I think, of young mothers to feel that way. Because they were of a class that could pay such a lot for their medical care during this period of pregnancy and maternity, they were well-to-do and had money. Therefore to get their interest and their money was natural and nobody had ever thought of it before. They were profoundly interested and they were more well-informed about the project they were promoting than any other group of supporters of social work that I ever saw. They were well-informed about it because they had just been through, or were in the midst of, an educative process themselves. They were experiencing these very things. Their obstetricians were telling them from week to week what it was they should look out for.

This called itself the Committee for Organizing Maternal Care. As soon as the committee was gotten together they decided