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Down Will Come Baby: 1915
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 7:55am.
1915. "Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo, nee Eleanor Wilson. Baby McAdoo's open-air bed." The infant with the precarious perch was Ellen McAdoo, born in 1915 to Woodrow Wilson's daughter and Treasury Secretary William McAdoo. At the age of 31 she killed herself with an overdose of sleeping pills. View full size.
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TB
Submitted by APRN on Sun, 11/23/2008 - 9:04pm.
Good way to decrease the spread of tuberculosis. Fresh air was very important for people who lived in crowded conditions where airborne diseases were easily spread.
What would Dr. Spock have said?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 9:38pm.
Subjected as she was to such bizarre parenting skills, I guess it's no wonder she offed herself at 31.
In the Window
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 9:20pm.
>> Sometimes I honestly wonder, and NOT about the topic.
The problem is, people forget that there were no home air conditioners (least of all window units) in 1915. They see a box hanging out the window, they dismiss it mentally as an air conditioner, and they keep looking for the baby bed - something with rails, like a crib.
They simply don't figure out that the baby bed IS what they've already dismissed as an air conditioner.
2139 R Street NW
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 5:52pm.
Still there. With window units! All these buildings look so imposing in black-and-white. Then when you see them in Google Technicolor Street View with a minivan parked out front, they shrink.
The house is now the Embassy of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Sigh
Submitted by Kim on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 5:43pm.
>> I don't understand. Where is the baby?
What the? Sometimes I honestly wonder, and NOT about the topic.
I'm curious where this is.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 4:38pm.
I'm curious where this is. Is it in Washington? I didn't think there were many five story row houses here. Anyone have a clue where this is?
[2139 R Street N.W. - Dave]
Mommy Knows Worst
Submitted by Vic on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 3:55pm.
Lileks has one of these in his book "Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice."
http://www.amazon.com/Mommy-Knows-Worst-Highlights-Parenting/dp/14000822...
Very funny book, with lots of old adverts.
This is going to drive me crazy...
Submitted by Vincent Le Pes on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 3:24pm.
...until someone figures out what in the world this has to do with a baby! I've even tried looking to see in the windows...no luck anywhere...
[The bed is the box sticking out of the window. - Dave]
Window Unit
Submitted by stef on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 1:19pm.
I kept thinking, "What? All I see is an air conditioner!"
HUH?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 12:24pm.
I don't see anything even remotely looking like an open air bed.
[It's a puzzle, isn't it. - Dave]
Where?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 12:08pm.
I don't understand. Where is the baby?
No wonder
Submitted by allie on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 12:01pm.
No wonder she was unbalanced, poor woman.
One way or another
Submitted by Vernon on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 9:18am.
It seems it was her destiny to die sleeping.
No Way
Submitted by Paul on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 9:09am.
That thing could be cemented directly to the foundations of the house, with a forest of backup safety chains, and there's still no way I'd put a baby in it. Scary.
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