Show i 6 m tilW' mw OT SALT ' LAKE TRIBUNE' SUNDXYi MORNING NOVEMBER Iff 183 i Are Babies Healthy Babies Today:s American Children Held Most Fortunate in Worlcl NORRIS of mine came to 3 Ice me bringing her two babies ol and a head with a blond is 2 The boy yeais KATH1EEN By a comm curia tight ( q u a brown re traight young body wideopen eyes the voice of an embryo prize fighter too the gul curly headed dark a busy absoroed little party whose life s a continual effort do and say and eat and have exactly hat Bonny Soes one Vnowa what croup colic Norrla colds tight clothes Neither ib Kathleen Indigestible food glaring lights bad hours bogie tales whippings cold wet or darkness are They are not spoiled they say “sank you" they obey readily they eat only what they may eat yet neither one haa ever known punish ment or scolding In his little life In other woids they are the most fortunate little creatures m the world American children and they are reap- ing the fruit of intelligence the experience and science of American mothers We have built up in this wonderful country of ours a code of baby handling that Is not matched In any other nationpn the world we have watched and experimented labored and waited and the re-- i suit is physical perfection in todaj'j youngster with all that means for sane and healthy and happy man-anwomand hood tomorrow moie than 40 years ago first began to take a big sister’s passionate interest in the neighborhood nurseries how different it all was! It 1s almost unbelievable that one life can pan the two conditibns that the babies ef 1934 are only decades and not centuries iw'ay from the babies of the nineties AU babies had colie then and most Something when I ef them had croup Colic was violent spasmodic pains in the little turn the baby grew acarlet he doubled up he shrieked In agony— sometimes for an hour sometimes for three That a cold bottle unclean milk a lump of sugar wrapped in a handkerchief corner and given him to suck had anything to d with It never occurred to the Victorian mother She might give him iquills ipecac paregoric or soothing syrup to quiet him but seven night a week he awakened roaring at midnight and the whole thing had to be done over again Comio weeklies made much of fathers who walked the floor with their wailing children Parents slept lightly in fear and trembling of the first fretful agonised cry Babies had rashes pimples convulsions and spasms then vomiting elegantly known aa “degurgitation” was expected after every meal Poor little babies with their small atomachs distended with completely indigestible food their small skins hot with eruptions their tender little eyes blinded with lights their soft little bodies swaddled in flannel and silk and embroidery how did they ever get thiough it all! One of my clearest recollections is of the way every female in the family used to dance the baby Ha was shaken andI rocked incessantly he was trotted by the hour on the knee of aunt or nurse who some foigot that perhaps in a daze he had Everyone who liked atopped crying babies at all kissed him on the mouth It didn’t want his food it was forced into him between times he sucked on an empty nipple shai ed with 50 or moi e flies and calculated to fill every inter-atic- e in his little being with wind Quite suddenly perhaps 30 years aeo a great light began to dawn on the American mother She began dimly to visualize an ideal of comfortable sanely fed babyhood of babyhood healthy and rested of babyhood sleeping vaking smiling sleeping again And she haa realized her ideal Nothing more marvelous than this can be said in piaise of the mothers of America If they had painted a new Sistine ceiling if they had written a new “Der Ring des Nibelungen" they would not have accomplished one hundredth part of what they have done for their children and for their nation This forest of new babies that is growiAg up all about us represents an increase in national wealth so startling that we can take si little time off from worrying about communists and labor atnkes hard times taxes and unemployment to consider it The most Important thing in any nation is its children Our children are the - absent-minde- this new one coming along— I could alt down and cry about it” It presents a fearful picture of a mid dlewest farm doesn’t it with whining half sick babies waiting in the heat dirty clothes accumulating dirty cribs unmade and the crippled mother dragging herself about when her own system l burdened and upset trying to get through two women's work? She never trained her children t® clean personal habits and to a normal attitude toward theimeals She doesn't know that small children should b served small portions of plain food attractively prepared at rigidly stated hours and should have no other A regime of cereals and cooked fruit vegetables and dry wholewheat toast plain cookies and an occasional piece of molasses candy with plenty of clean milk would straighten out nerves snd systems ihsure the babies nights of deep restful sleep clear their skins and banish stomach and intestinal troubles Four small babies present a problem at best For several years to come they will be a constant care but there is no need sick crying babies today to have-fou- r They should be turned out to a shady sandbox with plenty of spoons and pails at about 9 each morning should come in sleepy and hungry at noon for sponge baths and lunch and should sleep-th- e sleep of happy babyhood until 3 at least With more play perhaps by a pool or stream for the afternoon supper at 8 and goodnight kisses at 7 they would a minimum of care and give a maximum of delight To be sure mother almost drops to sleep at the dinner table and hardly knows what is going on after 8 but then she must remember that she is in the biggest business in the world and give it a few years without grudging The difference between the baby of 3895 and the baby of 1935 is the difference between black and white between sanity and stupidity Be sane with your baby ex-a- ct kisses at With more play supper at six ami gooil-nigseven they would exact a minimum of care and give a maximum of delight ht finest the tallest and strongest weather In Kansas when she wrote and her four babies were all upset Twins of 2 had sunburn teeth rashes bowel trou-bl- e the most normally developed in all the woild This means something It means that spme day we’re going to have fine men and women heie to decide things for us to carry on these high standards for their children and those children's chil-die- n t candy she won’t touch any mote" writes the desperate mother “Our house is big and shady she says “But you'd think it was a hospital if you ebuid hear them all crying at once and me with another baby coming at Thanksgiving trying to manage the girl that helps me and see that four men get their meals on time I have never m turn Which makes ft all the more amazing to read a letter like the one that arrived at my desk a few days ago a letter signed by a name and after the name w ith the words “Desperate Mother” This wohlan is 33 and she lives in Kansas It was burning hot summer 1000 a daughter of 5 had an arid stomach and prickly heat a daughter of 4 couldn't seem to eat anything “even 1934 the Bell Syndicate ) (Copyright Free for Asthma been able to manage my childien very good” she adds simply ‘‘as they are all fussy eaters and expect things between meals and they all have terrible strong wills Adela I could not manage from the time she was a year old she would eat mama's dinner or she would not eat at all and it made her sick if it was pork or fish or something not good for her Bertha Is real good tempered but it takes me an hour to get a meal into her and even then she does not put on weight The boys are big strapping fellows who are not trained yet and make a terrible lot of work and now here is If you Buffer with attack of Asthma terrible you choke and gasp for breath If restful sleep la impossible because of the struggle to breathe If you feel the disease ia elowl wearing your life away don’t fall to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Co lor a free trial of a remarkable method No matter where you live or whether have In faith you any remedy unany der the sun send for this free trial If you have suffered a lifetime and tried everything you could learn of without relief even if you are utterly discouraged do not abandon hope but send today for this free trial It will cost you nothing Address Frontier Asthma Co J32-Frontier Bldg 462 Niagara St Buffalo N Y so i Advert iaement and 98 other cash awards for writing just one line to complete this jinglo about the tasty hot cereal VV IIEAT HEARTS - 1?“ FIRST PRIZE was the response to the first two Wheat Heart new name and a slogan for this delicious breakfast cereal Now in appreciation of the public's interest and help the' makers of Wheat Hearts offer a third and even easier contest in the form of an interesting Limerick Game with 52100 more in cash prizes This is your last chance to win one of these rich cash awards Don’t fail to enter this new contest so simple ’and easy that even child can take part and win At the left you will find four lines of a merry jingle called “limerick” All you have to do is make up one more line — and 51000 first prize and 98 other awards will be paid for the best lines submitted I Get acquainted with Wheat Hearts and you’ll have a dozen ideas for that last line Children never have to be coaxed to eat this creamy nut-lik- e hot cereal Made of choice wheat it contains anradded amount of the grain' a rich aourc of Vitamin B the appetite growth and assimilating vitamin Wheat Hearts gives times mor Vitamin B children eleven and one-hathan farina cereals OVERWHELMING If the pride of your home just won’t eat If he spurns beans and spinach and meat Give him Wheat Hearts to try For second helpings he’ll 4 cry a How Make up this last Une and eemplete tha Limartch) h SPERRY FLOUR CO SAN FRANCISCO Last Lines That Win Make the Hat word in the lint you ubimt rhyme with the Hat word in thj firsttwe line ef the limerick For example the word “fleet" rhymes with ’eat and “meat" One good way to make up a last line u to first write down all the words you can think of that rhyme with ‘meat’ (like "trat" er fleet ’) and then pick out the once that make the moat tense and atari building you r hne 1— IvVTha mam thing fa to remember that we want plain everyday "com " lines You don’t have to be poet ! You don't have to be "clever" to win the big Si 000 prue Start now to play the Limerick Game— it’B fun and it may win you enough money new car to take a fine trip to buy ot refurnish the houie And be sure to get your entry blank in the mail postmarked not taler than midnight December 9th f DON’T HAVE TO BE “CLEVER” She Almost Lost 31000 Thinking Her Entry Too Simple! lf Cttyntkud JW Up not eat hit meals Then he tried Wheat Hearts Now— whit happened? Did he grow’ Did hit mother have any more trouble getting him to cat? Here are come sample Iasi linen "And kilt grow like § gob f tke fleet" m Tktrit health galore in thii treat" "A ktahktat lad you'll not meet " life-ger- Order a box ol Wheat Hearts and enter this easy contest which may win you as much as SI 000 cash Entries must be in the mail before midnight Sunday Dec 9tls to Make I—All you do it mike up a last line living your idea of a good way to finish the four lines of the limerick already written At the first four line certain little boy would fomt out Mrs McParlin Long Beach winnei fa the recent Wheal Hearts Naming Contest writes—" nave dreamed my entry would win it woo mo simple shiver now when I think 1 olmost lost my thousond doilot prise because thought worn t clever enough to win But I couldn t offotd not t try so I sent my entry tn anyway " t Only a lei minute ol you time and ontett Lite Mrs McFarlin you twt 1000 TO WIN AS MUCH AS Jg stamp t U I yourtelf li enter this Ml Iryt CASH I t I H 1st Prize RUllSl 2nd Prize 3rd Prize $ prizes— so your chances "ettra good— Contest clones i ’ 10 each 26 Prizes 5 each 60 Prizes 2 each midnight Sunday December 9th Prizes HO 1 — fttad paragraph “How to make up Hit fines that win then All out entry blank (at right) and write in the Une you make up to complete — 2 the la Attach the limerick to your entry leaflet packed every bos of Wheat Hearts You may submit as many entries as desired but each must be 1— Entries must be postmarked before accompanied by a separate leaflet midnight Sunday December 9th e 4— Sample liner to complete the limerick which are given here art not eligible for any prue but the same words may be used tn other combinations f— The judges in this contest are: Mm Genevieve Callahan kditor of Sunset Magazine Miss Helen Webster Editor of Woman’s Magaxine at the Air National Breadcasting Company Professor Dwight K Watkins University ot California Awards will be made on merit and contestants accept judges' decisions as final Neatness er fancy stationery will not influence the decisions 4 — Only residents ef Aruona CaDforai Idaho Nevada Oregon Utah Washington and Wyoming are eligible for prises No person sonnected with Sperry Flour Co er member of their families s 7— Winners hereby permit use of the winning lines eligible for any prue nd their own names end addresses in advertising Prire winners wifi be notified by mail and will be announced in Martha Meade's radio broadcast Thursday December ZOth f 30 A M (P 8 T over NBC stations No sntnes returned In the event of any tie identical pnxes will be given Sponsor reserves the - —right to use er not to nsc the lines awarded pr'ies Uett before midnight December 9th to BAN FRANCISCO PEXJtY PLOUt CO CALIF hne you moke up to complete the haenckj lest line ef the Wheat Hearts Limerick 1 attach the leaflet packed in my boa ef Wheat Hearts Below f give my name and address to which prut should t (Wntein I have written above my suggestion for the be tent if I is “la-1- NAME 2 — ADDRESS POST OFFICE STATE 4 bond drown entered fociimtlt ot the Wheet Heertt brood witt bo accepted in lira of tooftn ( I |