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Show PROTECT BABY FROM THE FLY BY THEOKA CARTER, President Society of Good Cheer. Keep the flies from your baby they are more dangerous than elephants. The big thing chows the big danger. The tittle fly buzzes into manure heaps, tilth, putrefaction, and then .comes to liabv bringing all kinds of disease geriiis. Flies are deadly. If baby is unable to overcome the deadly germ the fly brings, baby leaves you. I have been watching the work of deadly flies for many years. 1 know i'vo families living in the little town of B. B. These families were neighbors neigh-bors one lady brought out a family uf three and tbey are robust youngsters. Mother kept them out of reach of flies. Sbo went hunting for flies covered her voungsters regularly in summer time. The other mother did not believe a little fly could hurt her young she paid no attention to the fly. One by one she laid away her babies until now they are three silent empty places in her heart, and gloom is in the household. house-hold. If you can 't keep flies out of the house, cover the habv with a netting, or if you can 't afford a net get a piece of cheesecloth anything that will give baby air. See that the babv gets air, and keep it away from the fly. If you can get a little carbolic acid, 'nix with one part of carbolic acid and three parts of water. Get a whisk broom and spray with the broom on the floor of the room where baby sleeps in the dav. We will need good men and women for our future don't let the f'v tarry one single one away. The langer is in front of you it's as real as a big elephant. When babv cries, trv to tind out the reason. It may need a spoon of water it mny be a bandage that V too tight it raav be it has laid in one position ton long. Coo to baby, but use yuur mother judgment. Of course, it "s hot and vou have so many problem, but j rejsj can fight them. Babv hs problems, prob-lems, too, only baby's problems are solved by fans. Trv to overcome your irritation before be-fore vou pfk up baby. It's part of OT jf rou are cross, baby is more than likely to be cross. It's hard, this life but it is easier if you are of Hood Cheer. |