Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-06-03 | Page 14 | Your Baby and Mine

YOUR y By MYRTLE ED Mrs Eldred will willbe willbe be glad to answer all questions pertaining pertaining per per- taming to babies and children A stamped and self self- addressed envelope envelope envelope 0 ope forwarded to The T h e Telegram will bring a personal personal personal per per- reply FUN IN THE HOME YARD Mothers have a naive way of wondering why their children al alwa always always al- al wa ways s 's find the neighbors neighbor's yard jard ard more fascinating than their own and why they prefer the streets to the safety ty of the yard There Is usually a reason and the best one Is that there Is nothing In the yard ard to hold holda a childs child's Interest Just going out outto outto to Lo play Isn't enough there enough there should be play equipment suitable to the age of the tho child which will center and hold hoM his Interest Better to have the whole yard ard cluttered with play material than to be wondering where your wandering child Is THE The first thing In which every child who begins to run about is In Interested Interested interested In- In Is a This should be boxed In so that the child can sit on a n wood rim If he so chooses and so that his sand wont won't become i dirty and full of refuse as It surely will If allowed to spread out all aU over the yard ud and have to be raked ra d Into place every so often These sandboxes sandboxes sandboxes sand sand- boxes can be made at home easily a sandbox three feet square can be constructed from four six-foot six lengths of pine by sawing the four pieces In two and using four three-foot three lengths for supports and the other four three foot lengths for the seats or rim This sounds as lucid as the directions of most amateur carpenters The approximate approximate approximate mate cost would be about two dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars and the approximate enJoyment enjoyment enjoyment enjoy enJoy- ment incalculable HORIZONTAL BARS FOR OLDER CHILDREN For the older child chUd the horizontal bars are excellent for exercise and andas andas as a help In acquiring good posture I Boys love such equipment and the entert entertainment value Is as good as a n whole gymnasium The bars should be made of good hard wood and the whole should be steady and well put up Dont Don't risk a bad fall tall with flimsy material Instead of ot bars one may add leather rings to the center bar or better yet both The horizontal bar can be made for foress less ess than seven dollars and with the rings for tor a little over ten Steel bars jars are of course even better One huge bar cart cars hold swings rings and anda a short trapeze It Is wise to keep a profusion of soft shavings shavIng under the bars to make falls faUs easier easle THE THE CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S OWN GARDEN The small daughter may prefer preer a playhouse where she can keep her dolls doUs In comfort The small garden gardenIn In which only son and daughter may Plath plant vegetables and flowers should be an accompaniment to any I adults adult's garden and even 1 if the adults prefer to buy their vegetables vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables they should not deny the youngsters a chance to dig and plant and water and weed and watch the tho miraculous result of ot their efforts effort Back yards ards can be Just back backyards backyards backyards yards or they can be the playground and laboratory of the household But If one wants ones one's children where they can be safe and happy under the maternal eye ere One ne has bas to provide some healthful Interest for them at home