Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-11 | Page 22 | Your Baby and Mine

Your YOU Baby And nd Nine ine nE nEBy By Myrtle Meyer Eldred POISON IVY IW AND POISON OAK I At this time of year children roam In the woods pulling up weeds and flowers lont'S in fact any green thing which can be carried home and put In a vase We have by no means eradicated ted poison polson ivy and poison oak from the woods and until we do children children chil chil- dren should be warned against this vine and shrub and told how to identify each cach The two plants resemble each other being three BotanIcally Botan Botan- they are not exactly the same but both belong to the same family and are equally poisonous to touch or taste The ivy Is a vine growing about the bases of trees The poison polson I oak is a shrub sometimes from six sixto sixto to ten feet teet high bearing greenish I White berries BOTH BOT LOOK HARMLESS In the early spring the leaves of of the poison oak arc are reddish in color and are easily distinguished Later however the leaves turn green so 50 it itIs itis Is hard hud to distinguish the plant fr from m dozens of harmless green shrubs Both of these poisonous plants grow In swamp lands and amidst underbrush underbrush under under- brush so that to avoid them it is only necessary in most cases to keep away from thick underbrush and damp swampy places Mrs F. F H. H has already had trouble with poison ivy and she wants to know how to avoid it and what to do dothe If the child chUd should encounter it She asks specifically What precautions shall I take to insure the childrens children's leaving this dangerous plant alone SENSIBLE PRECAUTIONS One excellent procedure is to go out In the woods with the children hunt for this distinctive three three leaved leaved vine or shrub and then warn them against handling either Suggest that when hen they do encounter one they are to mark its location so that It may later Inter be hunted out and As all childr childrens children's ns n's hands are stained and dirty after a day in the woods I hands face and neck and bare legs should be well wen washed and scrubbed I with soap and water as soon as they arrive home It takes some little time for poison ivy hy to show Its effects and andi i If children were taught to wash their hands and face thoroughly after pickIng picking pick pick- Ing lag flowers Jowers or green things much distress might be spared them If the skin does break out into the typical typical typical cal white blisters the child chUd should be taken to a doctor and properly treated as this poison spreads rapIdly rap rap- Idly and is capable of causing much agony It is too bad that children have ha to be warned against the dangerous In the midst of natures nature's beauties but It is better for them if they think of ofen en evyn the woods as gardens to be enjoyed en ene joyed by everyone There is much to be gained if it children go into the woods to hunt for tor and identify plants and flowers lowers without the persistent desire to tear up what they find only to leave their plunder in a wilted hean heat on the doorstep The precautions to be careful of oC three leaved plants or shrubs to avoid ruthless tearing up of plants and flowers to wash face and hands and andaU andall andall all aU exposed surfaces thoroughly with soap and water as soon as home Is reached should avert any danger of touching the I Ivy plants which repay the vandalism so cruelly Tomorrow Tomorrow Serous Serious Vomiting Demands Demands De De- mands Expert Attention Experiments at the University oi of Pennsylvania have Indicated that fertilizers are most beneficial to trees when placed In a circle corresponding corresponding corresponding corre corre- to the tips Ups of oC their roots