Show YOUR BABY I AND MINE I II I By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED i WHEN CAN BABY FEED HIMSELF HIMSELF HIM HIM- SELF AND DRINK FROM CUP Mrs rs L L L. D D. B. B writes I I have profited so much by your sour to advice to others that I should like to to ask asic a few a-few fe questions My Iy son is 11 U 1 months old has eight teeth eth w weighs tw twenty sis nt nty l pounds walks walis and says sas half hat a a dozen words When should he he- hebe be beable beable beable able to drink from a cup alOne ne When sl should he lie feed fee himself himself 3 Does he need nee cod liver oil oi this winter lie He doesn't like It How can I disguise dis dis- guise i g e it I iam especially proud of ot tl the fact that he lie has ba xi never vec had the least bit of ri cold He ie I-ie has been 1 ben I ha tg liali g undiluted d milk for over over a much sugar should he hc have I l am 31 s so so afraid ra d of him too much IT JP TIA loves es 10 to eat cat and anda a lias never refused I Ial al any food lood food ofer offered ll him v ne cl rC S ANSWER This splendid boy ought to be drinking from a a. a cup right ough now and ad an efort effort toward feeding himself Use Usa a a. small light cup smal with a and show and show ho him how I Ito to tG grasp gaP P lt It wIth both h.-both both h hands nd anti and ad lift it It his to mouth It might It might bo be milk Well at first to o put only a a Ut J In th the cup s so IO th that l it will be easy to handle hadle and l he wont won't spill It on wont won't spi himself Just be bo patient hell he'll l learn arn the trick patent hel i het et him use an ordinary long handled bandied found 1 spoon spoon This has been by experiments with children Cn t to b bi be easiest for the thorn them many to ta handle and not and not the curved curd d handled t type p tow Show ow him cur JoP how hoto to dose Close 4 to ho gap it i S the bowl and P put put- t his fOOd in m a a. 1 with wih-an wih an edge Then l Iw by and pushing t trying ln his not spoon to overload toward th the t it el eA edge this e comes with practice he be will find that he can cnn push wi up fOod onto th the spoon and Keep then thel the bring i it I to i hi bi l ot oe ml I m mouthfuls before bim him but let leth make his own mistakes J I If It a 3 child gets lots of air ar a. a al 1 sunshine and perhaps sun sn b. b bat ba outdoors or before an open wIndo this wInt winter r. r he doesn't n need d cliver c liver oil QU the second year If I he he living in a a. a a. a very ver cold climate a agets as g gets get ts v very er ry little sunshine sunshine he sh shot shOU h have ve it Have you in concentrated cod liver hive oil oUr Or J drop of this is equivalent to q o. o 9 and one half one one-haJ teaspoons ot or the pla oil ol On One drop can be bc taken ten Inmost in most any wa way t tUse Use one small teaspoon tt sug with ih hi li c cereal re or leave sugar sua 01 I entirely A child gets sweet sweet P pu dings now and other sweets a aj plenty plent of bread bred cereal cleal and ye tr bles so that he shouldn't carbohydrate foods 1 Mrs p AV H. H 1 j. j H H. 1 h Thank you yon ou for your YOU nice I agree perfectly that children mi mu mu be trained traIne eal early We of offer r a leE leEon on that tat that and nd it contains the e ex exa a method of training very imla yours OUIS so I am amnot not repeating it he hi |