Show Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE MEYER 1 ELDRED Dress your Our child according to the temperature and not as you think he should be clothed Mrs Eldred's leaflet Dressing Children Children Chil Chil- dren in Winter Time will help you select the proper raiment There is no charge for the leaflet but each request should include a self self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope Write to the Your Bab Baby and Mine department of this newspaper Next to food tood sleep is the most Important Important Im lm- Im- Im item of good child care Mothers Moth Moth- ers who would consider themselves criminal for slighting the childs child's three- three meal schedule have no compunctions against dragging a small child to a motion picture show or some social function unction Rest early bed hours a period for forda da daytime time rest are demanded by the growing body They must be be- regular enough to become habitual with the child hild It Is 13 during these hours that the he broken down body cells are built bum up and renewed Children become Insomniacs only because these regular habits ore are so constantly disrupted that there is no possibility of establishing any orderly rhythm of sleep steep Children accustomed tamed tomed to ear early bed hours are literally liter liter- ally unable to keep awake past those hours But they very readily adopt Irregular sleeping habits and are then hen never ready to go to bed no matter what the hour The really serious aspects of night entertainments for children is not only the flouting of their regular schedules but the unnatural excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment to which they become subject subject- ed d. d Children are fatigued at the end of f a day of hard and vigorous play The They could not keep awake were they not ot stimulated by excitement This emotion plus the additional fatigue sure ure to be Incurred when the child runs uns about sliding up and down floors nois noisy quarrelsome keyed up to o the point of breaking has its aftermath aftermath aftermath after after- math the next day Children do not like adults make makeup makeup makeup up their rest If U deprived of their rightful allotment they go on strained trained to a higher point by fatigue with Irritable dispositions finicky appetites appetites appetites ap ap- ap- ap petites and more querulous demands for or excitement Up to the end of the first year ear the child hild needs two dally daily nap periods and 12 2 hours of sleep each night After the he first year the child needs on one nap period daily dally around noon and sleep leep at it night from 6 or 7 p. p m. m to the same time ime in the morning After 2 years I Ia a daily nap or a daily rest period and night sleep from 7 to 7 becomes the he schedule Up to 5 years this rouine routine routine rou- rou tine ine Is still Ideal Alter After that the bed hour lour may be advanced to or In n the summer But clear up to and beyond high school age it Is desirable that hat children observe early bed hours They are exactly as essential to their well being as fresh air good food lood and exercise |