Show CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE PROTECTION OF SCIENCE IS BABY'S RIGHT Just as I arrived arrIved- at the point where where Dick was moralizing on the duties of husbands and wives I ad lad an mus illustration illustration ration ra- ra tion of ot what It It means to be be a mother My baby's nurse came came to me almost almost in a state of collapse sayings paying Come quickly Mrs Waverly I think that Dickie Is dying When I got to his crib he looked as though he were dy dying dy- dy ing Luckily he was undressed and andI I called to the nurse to start the hot water running in the bath bathtub tub and by bythe bythe bythe the time tim I had gotten of off his little nightie I had reached the tub and Immersed Immersed immersed Im Im- im- im mersed his little stiffening form in the hot water The convulsions ceased almost instantly Instantly in instantly In- In although the water was very hot for I II in my excitement excitement- did not wait walt to use a thermometer but almost I in a minute or two my my baby began to throw up What is this Mabel I asked What has this child been eating He He was throwing up great chunks of something something some some- thing red in the curdled milk Mabel turned pale and said When I was eating my dinner today the baby seemed to want a taste of ot tomato I salad salad and you know the other day your husbands husband's mother said she thought Dickie acted as s t though he were hungry for tor something and she asked you if it you wanted anything very badly Just before he was born and you said you were simply mad for tor some some tomato salad So So wen well Mrs Wavely I 1 gave him hima a little tiny piece he wanted more and andI I gave him more And you are a trained nurse I 1 exclaimed Do you ou realize that for tor foran foran toran an anold old foolish tale you might have murdered my baby All such Ideas ideas' o of pre-natal pre influence have been discarded dis discarded carded long ago Mabel burst Into tears tears Oh Oh Mrs Waverly dont don't send me away she exclaimed I 1 did it because I loved Dickie really I did he seemed to lIk lIkIt like it so so sopo po Do you mean to tell me that you would give anyone you loved something that you knew would hurt him simply simply simply sim sim- ply because he wanted It if f that is the case you have no business to be a supposedly scientifically trained nurse nurse I think I shall shaH have hav to let you go Oh Mrs Waverly I know I will die if you do not let me stay with Dickie Honestly I wont won't ever do one thing that its not scientifically correct as long as I am with you If you only let me stay I have learned my le lesson leason son but hut you see I thought Mrs Trent knew Sloe She had brought up three chil chil- dren We are getting to a point where we realize that a a. baby is only a little anImal animal animal ani anI- mal that he grows a soul from a very rudimentary thing Just as 1 l. grows a body If we keep a baby comfortable we must feed it as carefully and de devote devote devote de- de vote ourselves to it not in a sentimental sentimental sentimental senti senti- mental but in a practical way Just as asa asa asa a stockman devotes himself to the welfare o of his prize stock To the last generation a baby was wall wasa walla a nice little meat dolly given into the young brides bride's arm ann for tor a plaything This g generation has hall come to the conclusion conclusIon conclusion con con- that a baby has rights at least I and I expect that when Richard Waverly Waverly Waverly 1 erly III grows up and takes a wife and owns a baby its mother will have much improved upon tM this baby's grandmothers grandmother's raising Until then men 1 t I however we will apply all the modern scientific methods we know to the proper bringing up of o Richard Waverly Waver Waver- ly III Again the nurse looked at me with such pleading eyes that I said I r think you have learned your lesson and I will keep you on if you wish but you must make a solemn promise that this nor anything like it will never happen again The nurse threw herself down by my knees on which Dickie was lying ap apparently apparently apparently ap- ap in his usual health and none the worse for his experience I To be continued |