Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-08 | Page 8 | Your Baby and Mine

Y Your 13 b 00 Baby And Mine ne neBy By Myrtle Meyer Eldred BAD REPUTATION DESERVED The second summer that ancient an an- dent bugaboo rears liE its head each cad season sometimes long before summer sum sum- mer Iner has had a chance to wave a 0 lealor lear leal 0 or OJ color the grass Yet I 1 admit t there was a real cause for this fear lear of the second summer which exists no more Lets Let's try tc to realize why mothers cling to this ancIent ancient an an- dent fear lear and how really unnecessary unnecessary sary it is today The second summer is is first of aU all that period in a childs child's life llIe when he lie is definitely out of babyhood We may maj safely say the ages are from 12 to IE 15 months or older I During this time the thc baby sprouts sprout six teeth four tour of them double ones Likewise he becomes more demanding demanding demand demand- ing about diet has hIlS a greater great r variety of foods and helps himself more liberally liberally liberally lib lib- lib lib- to those foods which heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore lore his mother has not considered suitable for lor him In the past the mo mother paid less attention to the food of the child chUd during the second summer than we wedo wedo wedo do today She put him up to the table and gave him small portions of whatever appeared there good bad bador bador bador or indifferent Likewise the runabout was often placed in Ill the care of some older child chUd who took him on the street at all hours of oC the day fed him to keep him quiet regardless of what or when or how much I FLIES BREED FILTH We ought to mention right here that our knowledge and fear of the common fly has grown tremendously with the years cars Flies were always present where there were stables and outhouses and while they were annoying annoying an an- they were not feared leared as they are today They were accepted as natural and inescapable We Ve know now that flies lies breed and live live on filth of all ll kinds and that they are capable of transporting on their feet feet- the germs of serious Intestinal intestinal intes Intes- Linal diseases Any object upon a fly lights becomes a repository repository tory for Cor such germs and until we knew this this' we allowed them to walk walkabout walkabout walkabout about the room loom with impunity re re- re of their propensity for washing washing wash wash- ing their feet in the food we at ate With a perfect knowledge of what caused the second summer to be becom become be- be cornea come a a. of terror for the runabout runabout run run- about child our line of attack is all aU planned for us We simply eliminate cUmi- cUmi I nate those which are potential dangers to ro the young joung child during the hot season We boll milk We keep it ice cold after aCter that until ready to use We boll boil water if necessary We see ee that all foods are clean and not too ripe or too green and then if doubtful we cook them for greater safet safety We do not force the child chUd to eat cat when he Is Indisposed and appetite appetite- less We take off all aU woolens in summer summer sum sum- mer in fact almost all clothes and keep him as quiet and as cool as is humanly possible We screen against flies flics and kill kUl all those that crawl In On hot days we avoid heating diets and give more water and less Jess milk to drink We avoid between meal tidbits tidbits tid Lid bits and scrutinize conscientiously everything the children cat Then we can laugh at the sec second nd summer view it with indifference With the precautions we now practice it is no nomore nomore nomore more dangerous than any other sea sea- I lson son