Show PARENTS OWE CHILD EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR NORMAL GROWTH Dont Don't VI Worry orry if Baby Thrives as asWell asWell VI Well ell Advises Expert Are you planning to make a late summer trip Suggestions Sun for tor traveling with small children n nare are presented in Mrs Eldred's leaflet Ne Necessities for a Comfortable Com Corn Journey Any reader may obtain a a- copy by sending a self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope enVelope envelope en en- with her request By fly MYRTLE l M MEYER Y a ELDRED r When parents are conscientious about food and about proper training train train- lag ing ing for good habits they cannot h help lp but Jut be concerned when the results do not seem to justify the efforts Quite often otten they complain that other children less meticulously cared for seem to thrive as welL welLIn welLIn welLIn In the following case the parents' parents bewilderment arises from the fact that she cant can't understand why the parent most concerned wont won't follow any approved methods of feeding or child training The r results of her carelessness are just what one would expect I Mrs F. F says My friend and I both have babies of 22 months Mine has been reared as closely to the advIce advice advice ad ad- vice In your leaflets as is humanly human human- ly possible He has never been fed between meals kept up at night or offered adult food He now weighs 33 pounds eats heartily has a two hour nap and sleeps from seven to seven My friends friend's baby is exactly the opposite Baby eats when she gets her breakfast ready any anytime anytime anytime time from 8 to 11 and dinner from 5 to 7 7 She goes to bed at any time up to 1030 at night She has baked beans strawberries ries raw potatoes apples with peeling candy fruit cake sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times all of these within a few hours She is so cross all day that the mother feeds her to pacIfy pacify pacify pac pac- her She doesn't take any naps and jumps and cries all night Her mother thinks I am foolIsh foolIsh foolish fool fool- ish to pamper my boy and says she is raising her baby tough Can she hurt the child and injure her health In the future Seemingly Seemingly Seem Seem- so far tar it hasn't hurt her though she weighs only 22 pounds No one can answer the question about future injury The human body accommodates itself to all kinds of conditions But if it careless feeding feed ing and training were in the majority majority major major- ity ib successful there thee would be no sense at all to our present-day present insistence insistence insist insist- ence upon proper roper food and regular r intelligent training Children did survive in the past past past- we all know that that but but 50 per Der cent oJ of the babies born died before 1 year of age Knowledge of ot that appalling mortality inspired doctors and educators edu to do something to lessen it What they did is well within the possibilIty pos pas of ot everyone to know and ap ap- ap ply If they dont don't if it the want to risk a childs child's good health because they are arc too ignorant or too lazy to put it I into practice it seems that neither I you nor I can do much about it The information on proper feeding I and care is available from innumerable able reliable sources for the asking |