Show WHAT MOTHERS I I SHOULD KNOW By DT DR CHARLOTTE C C. WEST Copyright 1924 New York Tork Evening World Press publishing Company GUARDING CHILDREN AGAINST INFECTION The Phe Idea still sUll prevails among many people that children must have the ordinary diseases of childhood childhood childhood child child- hood and that It Is better to expose them to o these various ailments as early In life as possible p so as o o o get through them as soon as possible The Idea originated In an earlier period before we knew as much about infectious diseases of or childhood childhood childhood child child- hood as we do now It Is an an alto altogether altogether altor gether mistaken belief and the ob object oh- oh of ot physicians today is o o protect protect protect pro pro- children against injection Infection in instead instead in- in st stead ad of exposing them to It As Aa children are more susceptible to va- va In temperature han than adults so are they also more apt to con- con trac certain diseases The safest way to protect them against Infection Is of course not notto notto notto to expose them This Is extremely difficult where there are large gatherings of ot children such as in public schools or in thickly populated populated districts but if the health of ot otI oty the child I Is maintained I by pursuing s proper p hygienic y e measures e Ya as to food bathing sleep fresh air and sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine It is safe to say that he runs a pretty small risk of ot contracting one of ot the Infectious diseases even when exposed to It This is proved over OVa and over again during an epidemic The children children chi chi- chil chil- dren who fall fal victims to the pre- pre ailing diseases ases are always below par in one way or another It I Is again shown where a number nuber of ot children In one family are stricken and one e escapes apes This one is In a better condition to throw trow off of the disease In oth other r words the childs child's tissues resist the at attack ac and when all al Is said and done this is the highest we can a. a accomplish to to to develop develop develop de de- de- de the tissues of the body by by proper rope modes moes of ot hiving to such sch a a. degree de e- e gree that exposure to t unfavorable condl conditions lons will wil be met with wih r resist resistance ance and disease completely thrown off of owing to the proper balance of ot health heath that is being maintained I cannot repeat too often oten that fresh tresh air ar and sunshine are as necessary necessary necea- necea sary to health heal as proper foods In fact digestion cannot go on in vitiated bad air There must be a sufficient supply of oxygen oxygen tal taken en Into the body boy to enable the tha foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs to be burned bue up You can give a child the richest milk mik fresh e eggs gs and so ro on but If it you do not give him at the same time Ume sufficient cleat clent fresh air he win will not derive much benefit from his wl good goo food fod Just as plants plant bloom in the sunshine sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine and an wither In d dark rk places plaes so children glow with heal h under the beneficent rays ry of ot the the sun sun Bacteria Bac Bac- teria tens germs that cause the intec tous diseases of childhood are rendered rendered ren ren- dered less virulent by the powerful rays of ot the sun Therefore give your children natures nature's remedies sunlight fresh air fresh feh foods and watch them thrive |