Deseret Evening News | 1891-08-25 | Page 3 | How Legs

llw tgu Mothers, In training their Uttle one to walk, sci in neer to think of how bonn growi that tho imnes lu a child' legs ore soft, half cartilaginous and that It Is an easy thing to bend them. Hence tho need of bwing careful about havlug their children walk too soon, or of keeping them on their feet too long when thuy aro llrst learning to u alk, 1 hu senseteas conduct of many parents tn urging their children to walk prematurely Is j reductive re-ductive of lasting injury. Long Iwfore ay ft bones ought to have any strain put upon them, ou will see these poor Infants tuudo to stand, and et en to walk, aud by tho time they are fourteen or sixteen months old thrtr little logs liuve been Ixnttry considerably, r.tlful and permanent deformities pro-dncod pro-dncod In this way are sueu on every hand. Under a year let tho child creep, bnt do let It n ulk, sehlom, lndeel, stand, aud then only for n moment! and from a J ear , to eighteen or twenty montlis do not I encourage It to walk much, still leu to set It up ou Its feet to make it walk. I Uall'i Journal of UsaltU.