| Show SLEEPY TIME Bedtime is generally a culmination of all the daily nerveracking episodes In the experience of the mother Up to 2 years of age a child regards his crib more as a place of punishment than of rest and even at that age rh percentage of children who a ready to go to bed at an appointed time and woo the drowsy god im solitude is lamentably small I is a blessed household house-hold that escapes a scene when the baby finds his lids weighing heavy As babies only learn by precedent habit can accomplish much in doing away with this unpleasantness From his birth lay the baby in his bed at the same hour every nIght without any preliminary rocking and leave him alone ill the > dark At first he will howl oh yes but persevere and the victory will be yours When old enough to be fed give gv very light suppers and try to keep company away from him I only excite ex-cite him < to see strangers A romp with papa is 3 treat to all children but it should be short and followed by the sand man A wellaired crib and room and absence ab-sence o light are great sleep producers produc-ers A fait tale at bedtime Is not I specially good in its effects banishing sleep more often than wooing it Ogres and griffins and murders are apt to prove but poor bedfellows and like as not produce > night horrors not once only unfortunately but sometimes for years One horrible circumstance will often fasten to a childs imagination making sleep a dread because at the I haunting phantom I a story is a necessity let It be a simple tale of birds or animals with no bloodcurdling bloodcurd-ling incidents to excite the already tired brain and nerves KENNET WOOD |
