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Show Your Baby And Mine y afYBTLI METIS iXDEED SLEEPING BAGS ABE BOOMY, j WABM I We hav not yet reached the season sea-son wken wa can forget about covers or how to keep restless babies and children under them. I DISLIKE COVEBS Bablea dont like heavy, burden-some burden-some covers: they don't Ilk being wrapped tightly In them or pinned fast under them. So they wriggle and kick until they are free of them, with mother keeping on worried eye open so that ah may Jump up every minute so often and tuck tier chicks In again. Wilhiej my experience there has bean nothing devised which ends this worry quit so conveniently and comfortably com-fortably as the sleeping bag. Sleeping Sleep-ing baga cam into prominence with the vogu for sleeping porches and while fewer homes are now supplied with the porches, the sleeping bsgs hav won permanent favor for babies and children. Dressed In his nlghtia, the child Is slipped Into this warm, commodious, square envelop and buttoned or otherwise contrived so that It may be opened and the child's diaper changed without removing him from the bag. Some modern bags hav woolen tops and cotton backs so that the portion of bag which la ao constantly damp may be easily washed. The baga are of sufficient aire so that baby may mov about freely and even sleep In the classic position with th arms high above his head. Sleeping bags may be purchased ready mad or they may be made at home. Directions for msklng a sleeping sleep-ing bsg are contained in one of my leaflets. "Simple Directions for Making Mak-ing a Sleeping Bag" This leaflet Is available lo any reader who will send me a self-addressed, stamped envelope with her request Soft half-worn blankets, eiderdown, or heavy, cotton blanket material may b utilised to make a sleeping bag In warmer weather all cotton materials mate-rials may be used. In winter the materials should be warm, aa baby can be well protected In this bsg and needs but a single extra cover thrown over him loosely. Any covering which so completely shuts out th air if certain to be warm. It is advisable to make two baga, so that on may be washed and dried thoroughly while the other la In use. The convenience of the sleeping bsg for the mother Is obvious.' She csn go to sleep and stop worrying that baby will kick himself out of his coverings. cover-ings. For the baby It offers th protection pro-tection of a warm but not suffocating or weighty burden of heavy blankets or comforts, pinned down ao tightly that there Is no room to wiggle a toe. Tomorrow: "Baby Does Not Neel Back Propped to Learn How to Si Erect" |