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Show BSBSBsassasssai ' V Your Baby i Baby Profits By Habit of Sleeping Alone - By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED For nlttlvu to Interfere In the parent's management of a child is one of thoee acts for which I have little sympathy. It sesms ta me to be self-evident that a baby is the responsibility of the parente and that wtiat they presumably frown up. Independent and, we bops. intelligent in-telligent Individuals want to do with their own baby is their right and privilege. I do not exempt even myaelf from the ranks of parents par-ents who. hoping that they have been good parents, feel their children chil-dren should be able to make thtir own decisions. Mrs. O. J. sdmlts she reads this column daily and finds It both interesting in-teresting and helpfuL "I have a s-month-old baby who Is good and sleeps all night throngh. Shi is too big for the bassinet which I kept in our bedroom and now I would like to have her sleep in her own crib In her own bedroom, whkh Is right next to mine. I could hear her easily If shs cried. "But my husband and all his folks think It 'mean and Inconald-srats' Inconald-srats' of ms to leave her all by herself. her-self. They Insist that I movs ths crib In my own room. In ths first place, my bedroom is small snd also I think I am right. But I would appreciate your opinion." Any baby old enough to be graduated gradu-ated from her bassinet Is old snough to sleep slone. Because you have the baby on your mind, you will hear any notes loud enough ta be important. The tiny notsee a baby makes, even the email cries, might as well bs igonred. Bablea make lots of sounds which mean nothing not even wakefulness, onlstrs wo fuse over them and waken them. No one is more concerned than I that babies shall hava every considers! con-siders! ion. But ths neceeslty that they sleep in the parent's bedroom is not one of these. The baby will profit by uninterrupted sleep and by cultivating the habit of sleeping sleep-ing slone. Free Leaflet My free leaflet, "Hours of Sleep," may be had by aending a 3-cent atamped aeU-addreassd envelope en-velope with your letter to Mrs. Kldred of the your baby and mine department in care of The Salt Lake Telegram. t |