Show MOTHER WHO LOSES 1 BABY SHOULD AVOID BROODING OVER OVE PAST PAs By MYRTLE l MEYER l ELDRED ELDREE When weaning meaning time approaches the mother i js is sometimes uncertain uncertain tain fain about the tho correct procedure lure Send for Mrs Eldred's Eldred leaflet Symptoms of Weaning Time for her helpful suggestions on this this' problem A self addressed cd cent 3 stamped tamped envelope will sill bring a n. copy of the tho leaflet to you OU If you u will send your our request to Myrtle Me Meyer cr Eld Eldred red In care of Your Baby and Mine department depart depart- meat ment of this newspaper I Over and over during the years I receive one type of letter that moves me profoundly It Is In the letter from a mother who has lost her child from froman an n ailment the characteristics characteristics char char- of which she Is Ignorant What actuates most mothers moth rs In Jr their questions i Is Is' the curiosity to tc determine whether previous knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge would have averted the trag trag- edy I feel that mothers have a right to know about diseases as the have a right to know about everything everything everything every every- thing which vitally Itally affects them But in such cases I feel it is neither profitable nor healthy to brood over what might have been That chapter should be closed All future chapters may be different different differ differ- ent because of the experience gained in that one but for lor a mother to blame alame herself or the doctor by determining determining de de- de- de whether she or he has acted wisely is b to take the road to despair The following letter leller in part accounts accounts accounts ac ac- counts for the explosion of this fire lre- cracker It Is only one of many of the same type Please explain In your column all about acidosis I lost a three three- old month-old baby of this and my doc doe doctor doctor tor did not explain it It is my understanding that acidosis is not a disease in and of Itself but an accompaniment of many diseases which upset upset the body chemistry Thus Thu a starving baby would suffer from an acidosis So o might a person with wilh a high fever induced by many causes It would be best to ask your doctor to explain explain ex ex- plain this And on another subject Mrs M. M W. W writes I 1 am moved to add more more I objections lions to spanking It Is wiser to 10 slap on the leg and with a thin little whip which stings but does not irrItate irritate tate Late the sex organs as might happen happen happen hap hap- pen if the buttocks were spanked This comment left me flat fiat I 3 thought I had made it plain that the disadvantages were ere about eight to toone toone toone one of any punishment that uses pain as of controlling be be- havior Spanking Is as much spanking whether it Is done with a whip a hand or a hair brush It is the nature of the punishment punIshment punishment punish punIsh- ment which Is d deplorable not its instrument I trust no other reader read read- er made this limited Interpretation of at the term spanking |