Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 18 | Your Children

YOUR CHILDREN Sometimes it Is hard to get a baby to take something new besides his regular milk Of course since it has become a apart apart apart part of oC the regime to supplement the regular feeding with cod liver oil and orange Juice at a very early age babies are more likely likel to accept new additions to their diet with philosophy But mothers still sun say as the they have always alwa's said I Just cant can't ge get him to take it One mother complained Just recently that her baby wouldn't drink water He pushes the bottle away the minute he tastes it she said I dont don't believe she needs to worry however because although it is a good thing for babies to drink plain water they are getting a generous supply in their milk for milk itself is a good many per cent Just that regardless of ot the Jokes about the pump But as the baby goes along and the doctor orders soups of vegetable Juices one small nose is likel likely to wrinkle at the sudden shock of a new taste and f lingo bango down goes the bottle or the cup on the floor What's this they are giving him Nothing doing the doing the old dope was good enough for him AWAIT PSYCHOLOGICAL IO I MOMENT Now there Is for this ticklish business business business busi busi- ness as for other affairs of state a psychological moment and that is when he is good and hungry and Just before his feeding time If It he refuses it once keep his bottle waiting and dont don't give It to him until he takes the first food offered Do not substitute the thing he wants for tor the thing he doesn't want You cant can't starve him of course but buta a little patience will usually win out And if it you ou win this time It is going to be easier and easier as along anti and his diet must be still further further further fur fur- ther increased to get set him to sample new and strange dishes One thing sure he sure he will never learn any younger and if It he is one of those people who doesn't want what he doesn't want when he hed d doesn't want it i. i It is s gol going S t tp to be be- bein in in- in to make him hUn new- new food They say that babies dont don't notice Oh dont don't they Well Vell they notice things so much that they can tell the Instant they look at you OU that something something something some some- thing Is in the wind I Just know that Wilbur wont won't take this is written written written writ writ- ten all over his mothers mother's anxious face and anti grandmas grandma's face and Aunt Claras Clara's face and everybody's face Id hate to fool them says Wilbur Wilbur Wilbur Wil Wil- bur and proceeds to stage a show when the cup of nice spinach carrot car car- rot celery and asparagus broth is put putto putto to his lips The whole family should adopt a take granted attitude and not gossip about the chances of his not I liking it Little LUlIe pitchers have great big cars ears and eyes too and another sense which we lack knowing when something is about to be put over o on them So be nonchalant and 4