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Show 10 Women : The s Baby Develops Sociability Through 'Association With Others Your Baby Br MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Our free leaflet on "The Timid Child" may be hd by sending a three-cent (tamped, self-addressed envelope with your request to Mrs. Eldred of the your baby and mine department depart-ment In care Of The Salt Lake ' Telegram. ! There U no absolutely safe world I In which we can bring up our children unlet we would pen them up In room devised like hospital operating room! and keep out all but aterile nurses. Children mutt develop an Immunity to ordinary hazard! of daily living and they develop It by contact with them, not by rigid Isolation from them. This Is preliminary to the only answer I can give to the following question: "There has been a problem prob-lem In this neighborhood which I would like for you to answer," writes Mrs. D. F. R. "We have a nine-month-old son and we feel that we are the only ones who should pick him up. We don't approve of people getting right up dote to him or playing with his hands. Should other children chil-dren oe permitted to play with him?" It Is plain that this Is your first child and most precious to you. But I feel that you are trying to create an artificial world Instead of letting the boy grow up in the world into which he was born. That means a world of relatives rela-tives and friends and children, all of whom should come to have some personal meaning to the baby. Unless a person Is tick -or shows evidences of a cold, there is no reason why she should be denied the privilege of touching the baby or showing him loving attention. This can be done without lifting him from his crib. If it isn't time for such a service, or by Imperiling Imperil-ing the digestion of his food by totting him around right after a meaL Babies are always enchanted by the antics of other children and do not seem to mind their rough caresses. In fact, you'U find the baby will be a better child and will not develop timidity if you allow nlin tu get ustd te the sara and attentions of other persons. You do want him to develop so- can't and won't unlets he has constant con-stant pleasing experiences with them. |