Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-16 | Page 6 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE 1 MEYER ELDRED ELORED LET IET CHILD JUDGE WHETHER liEIS liE HE HEIS liEIS IS DRESSED COMFORTABLY COMFORT Mary screams the mother on the heels of oC her dau daughters daughter's headlong leap from the house Come back this minute and put on your sweater There is something in mothers mother's voice that brings Mary Iary back her face filce clothed adequately with a frown fro But mother you dont don't understand understand- its it's so hot Ill I'll just die in that sweat sweat- er Cr Please please dont don't make me wear it no it-no no one else has to To the mother the air or still seems very sharp and cool despite the warm sun But mothers walk about se sedately sedately sedately se- se and md children race and Jump until their blood is leaping and bounding bunding and the children really Ire are hot CONSIDER TEMPERATURE Tf There may be bc days dRYS when sweaters sweaters' arc necessary but often oCten children I know know better than mothers when they I are arc warm enough h without them It isn't the date or the day that is to be considered but the temperature and the individual child Perhaps the child who is hardest to dress is the infant Were We're so fearful fearful fear lear ful Cui that hell he'll grow row cold and he isn't as able as u the runabout to express his opinion vehemently And his mother moth moth- er Cr who is wheeling a heavy carriage or cart may well be a poor one to decide whether or not the day is warm She like the active child chUd is probably burdened by the warmth of ol her clothes WATCH THERMOMETER lETER It behooves mothers to keep an art eye on the thermometer If its it's an accurate accurate accurate rate one it cant can't lie The weather ma may seem and look warm but if the thermometer is below 68 68 we may consider consider consider con con- sider that the baby and small child under 5 need wraps I If it is between 70 and 72 degrees it should be warm wann enough for them to be dressed exactly as the they would in the house That is the re regulation lalion temperature indoors for lor a child and is suitable to light underwear thin dresses cs and no wraps If the baby is iser er very vcr very new he should wear stockings stocking a cotton cotlon shirt a thin wool part-wool band petticoat I dress coat and hood Because e of ol their theirl small body surfaces babies chill very cry easily easil They Ther should never ne be clothed to the point of oC perspiration as as that only encourages colds but butI I thc they should not be sent out with in inadequate inadequate in- in adequate protection against winds or temperatures of or a spring sharpness GIVE CHILD CREDIT The thin and spindly child will in inthe inthe inthe the main always need more clothes than one more comfortably pad padded ed with fat at Keep a sweater handy for lor forthe forthe the child to snatch up when chills begin racing racin up tIP and down his spine The child of school age is usually I sensible enough to know lenow when he is cold Mothers often overdress their children during these in-between in seaSons seasons seasons sea sea- sons and so colds run riot not A burden burden burden bur bur- den of 01 woolens which results in jet a damp skin upon which the cool winds blow blow is even cven more productive of oC a runny runn nose than fewer garments in which the thc child i U comfortable withOUt without without with with- out perspiring Let the child decide the lie question of ol clothes Let the mother refuse to dictate but say Look at the thermometer If its it's below below below be be- low Ga 68 It means you need a sweater The child wont won't rebel at that sug sug-