| Show I Little T Facts of General Interest to Women i I I THE RIGHT WAY TO REAR CHILDREN I I I nn T HE liE right beginning for a bab baby Is Isto isI THE J I to be fed b by Its mother Then comes Inevitably Ine the time when tho the mothers mother's milk no longer satisfies tho the bab baby and ami It have c something more snore It requires to be weaned and ver very often otten Inde Indeed d It suffers In the process mostly because of tho the things we use to help It I No 0 baby that has not completed Its first I t. t year c r should be bea asked o to digest an any Kinu ainu 01 Os aLarm The i ne baby docs not not have In Its body tho the kind of ot digestive e ferments ferment which can digest starch and anit no food which contains starch is proper for an Infant that Is Just being weaned There Is no starch In milk but unfortunately mothers cannot be bo persuaded that milk Is Js olid nourishment nourish nourish- ment meat though the thc modern o vogue ue of dry milk must have havo taught many of them Tho Tha chief defect detect In the feeding of or most moat children from weaning until the they are aro far past their s second cond year nr la is Is' Is that thc they do not get enough h milk Milk should remain romain the tho str staple diet of the child for long after it i Is CHILDISH INSTINCT FOR JOn S E SWEETS TS Though milk contains no starch it has a valuable sugar in It it and we need not bo be afraid of letting young children have havo almost as much sugar as they feel inclined for tor This Is a splendid fuel tuel with which the tho bab baby can cap keep warm its small and easily cooled bod body and our grandparents were quite wrong In supposing that a childs child's fondness for CI sweet things was vas a sign of original What hat we must certainly not do Is to I put tho the sugar on a n comforter and let lethe tt t the tho he bab baby whom we wo are aTe weaning suck t that hat tf No bab baby should have ha a comforter at all It Is Js a constant source of ot in In- In f not fit It to put into a n. baby's I mouth thou though h one has scon a com cons comforter f forter orter dropped upon a filthy station platform and direct directly replaced In a baby's babs mouth The Thc sucking suckIng- at the thc com com- Cortor means that the baby's saliva begins bogins bogins bo- bo gins to run and amI this must soon Inter Inter- f fere ere ero with its digestion And nd dental surgeons s have havo lately shown that suckIng sucking suck- suck I Ing ng at a dummy dumm t teat at distorts the tho shape of ot tho the childs child's mouth making the palate palato pal- pal palate ate ato grow forward and BO so O ruining the shape of oC tho Jaws Many Ian of or the ugly ugh mouths and upper lips we see In children chil chil- dren and up grown-up people are duo due to t the tho he comforter Precious little comfort com corn fort It leaves behind it It when tIme the baby's mouth is distorted for life liCe Mothers us use the comforter when bab baby is Js teething but It is not worth while The comforter causes most and often all of ot the troubles which are arc supposed to tobe be due to the teething and for tor which the com comforter Corter Is supposed to be bo useful The rime bab baby that Is getting no starch and that Is getting plenty plent of clean milk will cut Its teeth with l little ittle trouble or none at all Tho The bad reputation of ot teething Is due to the stupid way In Jn which we have been content to mishandle babies and espe ciany cIallI their stomach and their mouths i In n tho tim past Yer Very often we find when we aro are trYIng try trY- ing to feed bab baby on what we think Just rJ right ht that he or she Is apt to become HI ill It is 18 not bah baby's J fault tRUIt but ours be because because he- he cause we thought we knew rather rathor moro more than wo se did cUd lid Milk should have other kinds of diet to go with It to balance It It Cream and butter help labS baby's In InsIde Inside inside In- In side to keep klep active and so 50 have a special special cial I use e hO beyond ond their valuable powers of nourishment FRUIT NECESSARY tRY ny There Is something else which we have havo probably bl forgotten Vc We all know how useful fruit salts ma may be but hut do wo o all know how useful the tIme salts salt In fruit mR may be bo beVe We Ve fancy that fruit Is Isa Isn isa a n luxury whereas H R is aJ aY J necessity In Iii somo form torm or another Orange Juice CZ e lemon Juice grapes apples prunes figs all all these are arc splendid things for children we h however r young oun Often a a. teaspoonful tea tra- spoonful of ot orange Juice twice a n. day has hal saved the life Ufe of a tiny Infant which was dying on some preserved artificial diet Just us as Arctic explorers used to die of or scurvy ln c before lime Juice mado the tho discovery discover of of both poles pos pos- sible The fact Is II that wo we 0 underrate the sense and the forethought ht of n nature tur She endows a baby hab with a sweet 5 ot tooth because Mugar sugar Is ls S good d for babies as It IK Is for adults but we WO think wo we 0 know better better and and a as usual wo we wol l know nw now worse vorse She Khe babl babies and children font fond of ot fresh fh fruit and vego vego- t tables and we fanc fancy that these things I arc ore superfluities But in fact a health healthy childs child's appetite appetite appe appe- tite Is the best guide In tho the world world- world world- and that child is Indeed not nol perfectly healthy whoso hOse appetite cannot be bo trusted P who have made the time ox- ox know that children who t arc allowed fruit anti and even cake and sweets freely friey do not exceed and make I th themselves ill m. The TIme trouble is that thinking ourselves ao so clever cr we wo usually usually usual usual- I ly deprive children of these thORO things and then thon of course the they tako take too much when hen the they do get gel the tho chance and make themselves ill m. When hen Ironing handkerchiefs begin ln In tho time middle When the edges edgeR are arc Ironed first the middle of the handkerchief Is apt to swell up like a balloon making it difficult to Iron the properly |
