Show Your Baby And Mine By MYRTLE l MEYER ELDRED ELORED BETWEEN Mla MEAL LUNCHING INEVITABLY DULLS APPETITE Mothers are given to making makin extreme cx- cx reme statements In their eyes the wakeful baby never sleeps the appe appe- child never eats the wilful child never obeys Mrs F. F J. J has an nn eating problem In her home My boy has no 8 appetite petite at all aU He cats eats hard hardly y anything 1 I dont don't see how he stays alive He wants to run and play all aU da day and can hardly be dragged in to meals In spite ol ot this he Is healthy rosy and full of energy What shall shaU I do MAKE lAKE NOTES First of all find yourself a notebook notebook notebook note note- book and each day enter in itt it honestly honestly honestly hon hon- estly and without bias every bite of ot food the child consumes Note the cookie the half halt an apple the piece of ot gingerbread the Ice cream soda Coda goda- all the things which you Oll are probably overlooking overlooking and and at the end of a week sort them out Into meals and you'll probably find that the sum total is a full portion for the day The child who has no appetite and never eats can hardly be rosy healthy and full tull of ot energy The picture is too distorted What you probably mean is that he never eats at mealtimes There are lots of reasons for fog ap- ap Fatigue anemia overfeeding overfeeding over over- feeding of rich foods feeding too often otten in the day or offering too many many sweets may apply to the baby on a aas bottle as well as the runabout TOO TOO MUCH EMPHASIS El Some of this s Is probably chained tightly to the amount of ot attention the modern mother bestows upon her childs child's diet It is admirable and essential that she feed him according to the right stan stan- dards But the emp emphasis upon the nece necessity for eating so much of ot this or that destroys something that Is es essential essential essential es- es to a good appetite The adult neurotic who puts his attention on every food lood he eats weighing its advantages advantages advantages ad ad- vantages and the possibilities of Its ils disagreeing grows more and more dyspeptic The child who must eat every bite of ot cereal drink every drop of ot milk and consume every spoonful of ot his vegetables comes to look upon food with distaste The business of eating becomes a monotonous ceremony ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony inflicted upon him Mm by fussy parents The leaflet offered by this depart depart- ment called Physical and Psychological Psycho logical Reasons for tor should clear up for the parent whether er it is Johnnys Johnny's body that needs at attention attention attention at- at or his mind that needs distraction dis dis' distraction traction from the duty of ot eating There Is no charge for this leaflet but a self addressed stamped envelope envelope envelope enve enve- lope should be sent with each request to Mrs Myrtle Mrtle Meyer Eldred of ot the Your Baby and Mine department of ot this newspaper Whenever a mother becomes obsessed obsessed obsessed ob ob- ob- ob with the idea that her child chile isn't eating it is absolutely certain that her emphasis upon food will aggravate aggravate aggravate ag ag- ag- ag the very condition she is intent Intent in in- tent lent upon improving The only ad advice advice advice ad- ad vice Mrs F F. J J. J seems to need is to stop worrying about food make i it impossible for lor the child to eat cat except at the table and let there be no talk tan about it Hers is obviously one o of those children who eats cats on the run It is this habit that needs to be changed Tomorrow What Is Right Way to Curb Biting and Slapping 4 WRIGHT TO SPEAK Gus Wright of the Ogden Rotary club will address the weekly luncheon lunch eon meeting of ot the Salt Lake Rotary club Tuesday at the Hotel Utah on Employer and Relations Music will be furnished by the glee club of the L. L D. D S. S hospital tr training school |