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Show How Would You Like It? How would you like it, you grown man or woman, to be hauled along by a giant; your weary legs vainly trying try-ing to keep up with his seven league strides? Yet that is just what happens when you take your small boy or girl out for a long walk. Children often get spanked for badness when they are cross from utter fatigue. Try walking at a forced pace for an hour or so and you will see the wisdom of the children's specialist who insists that the baby carriage or push cart should go along on every long walk taken by a child up to the fifth year, longer if the little one is not sturdy. If mothers would cling longer to the push cart, nuisance though it be, there would be fewer sufferers from curvature curva-ture of the spine and infantile paralysis. paraly-sis. Four-year-old Johnny or Mary will balk at being pushed and consider it beneath his or her dignity. But the knowing mother will insist upon occasional occa-sional lifts because of the benefits to tired legs and backs. No child of three or four years old should walk more than hal a mile at a time. |