Show f Your Children Ch f What's become of all nIl the sick babies True we still tUl have some poor little lIlUe mites miles who ho arc are having hn a miserable time of it IL When 1 I look lookout lookout lookout out of oC the window at the sweet s spring the the middle of oC February always ah marks spring for me some someway way vay because I 1 once saw my first robin on that date date I I wish that every little Ittle child chUd in the land could be well ell well well And out in tn the thc sun aim But the truth b Js that tha most babies are re really well now You young oun mothers with th contented little ho who cat and sleep Ie-ep and behave c like hike models rodels know l little of or the thc old days when certain windows of the neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- neighborhood at nl night ht marked the spots where the b-a b babies bles were For scarcely any mother expected 1 a baby to be well veil If such uch a thing happened she was as conspicuous by her good luckNow luck Now it is iz the other way i round FEEDING G WAS 8 AS lilT HIT AND D MISS It was as unknown twenty t years ago agoto agoto agoto to give a baby any kind of or supple supple- I feeding coding under a I. I year jear eal of age Artificial bottle foods were hit and miss If a mother couldn't nurse her baby bab It U was a n cn case e o of experiment all along the line of patent foods until something was found that would stay itay J down or that would not cat eat the linIng linIns lin- lin Ins Ing ng of off his poor little stomach The Theu use u e of or modified milk was becoming and being used but the public was as not c educated to it Dr Holt had published his book and there is no question that he saved hundreds of Ii lives cs but mothers looked hooked largely larely on book babies as business and md branded such mothers as used them either lazy or crazy I 1 raised my babies by the book and was as the only mother I knew who did Now mothers all do do either either directly or indirectly for what their doctors I tell them is Js the same thing thins This much also I 1 shall 11 divulge In ill this confession con eon of ot the past Doctors knew little about babies then as a I. I rule Bab Baby specialists were few and far be be- tween The word ob obstetrician Itsell Itself was wa-s as one of oC those things you looked up like ike or anthropoid The baby b-aby was the suffix of the fam family ill ily not the prefix as he is now omega instead of or alpha lIe He merely merell also ran If he be lived li he lived and I cried and starved and suffered hi way through the first year or two I and after that he got along In spite of or them I THAT BOOK DOOK S WASN'T T COMPLETE Now he hc gets ets his cod liver ll oil oU lii his orange Juice his vegetable Juices His Ills bones grow gro and his teeth cc de de- clop How lIow our children ev c cr r got enough calcium in the old days 1 g tc Ie I crow nt bones and teeth Ill I'll have ha to ask fisk I you r ou for r- r I don't dont know ow Even I Even Iv book Iland I land and all nil didn't know all th these c things for Cor twenty years ago even that good oo book couldn't tell all it should as it does docs now no Another thing weaning thing weaning Is no bu bug bug- abeo When a baby was born h his mother started to worry about weaning wean weM- Lug ing time months ahead It was some ome thing I tell you OU People used to say that the poor little souls who lived through gh It were saved ed for something Now it is merely a transition another another another an an- other event ent with scarcely time out for lor or a hiccough You young YOWl mothers of 1931 had better soy ray a long special prayer of oC thankfulness that at last this old world has become baby conscious |