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Show Car Sickness Not Unusual By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Car sickness is not an unusual ailment ail-ment and the effective remedies for it would seem to be as numerals and varied as tjie sufferers. Per- Your Baby haps there may be small comfort to the mother in knowing that this tendency is outgrown. Meanwhile one cannot allow the small victim to suffer untreated. Experience will have to dictate whether it is more expedient to feed him before a ride, or to allow him to embark with an empty stomach stom-ach and offer food only after the destination is reached. No Fun in Rides Children who become car sick when taken on buses or street cars, as one mother said of her 8-year-old son, should certainly not be "entertained" "en-tertained" by rides on such vehicles. "Schedule for the Small Baby" leaflet suggests that it Is essential for baby's best health that everything about his day be accurately timed. Send a 1-cent 1-cent stamped, self-addressed envelop with your request for the lesflet by name to Myrtle Mever Rldrerf nf the vmir hnhv and mine department of The Salt Lake Telegram. But when it is necessary to go, the child should be cautioned against straining against the motion of the vehicle and allow himself to sway with it Try Out Methods Usually, in such esses, the fluid in the ear canals is in some way at fault and the effort to achieve a body lalance causes the nausea and dizziness. One may note whether the sickness is relieved by lying down in a car. though it may be found that this increases the sensation. Aa was said before, one must know one's child, try out various methods to aid more comfortable travel and then abide by the one which proves most successful in one's own case. |