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Show ABOUT BABIES AND CHILDREN Be Kindl Be KindJ-Be Kind Be Kindj How to abandon foolish theories and continue growing is tho question. Common advico Is about as useful as uncracked cocoanuts arc digestible. Ono mother confesses that tho theories which wero successful with her first threo children wero entirely annihilated by tho fourth. A million babies dally cry for a drink of cool boiled water. Smllo on tho baby Just out of a nap and show a happy faco when picking It up. Good rules may havo so many exceptions excep-tions that thoy becomo dangerous In common use. . Ono mother asked another, who had a one-year-old baby, whit she had been doing tho last year. . Her reply was that sho had beenjtelvlng her theories a respectful burial. Tho baby .should receive dhcrlml-natlng dhcrlml-natlng attention. Fool IB atST unriec-essary unriec-essary worry that endangers tho health of tho parent, and dangerous carelessness which harna tho baby, aro tho extremes to keep away from. A father of a largo family reported that thoy used to enjoy chlldroh at their house. At ono time thoy had a two-year-old, a pair of one-year-old twins anil a pair of one-month-old twins. Tho neighbors had to help a little occasionally on sowing, but tho children grow up to marry well and win Indopondenco. They wero bright nnil smart thoy had to be to get out of tho way of each other. Itecontly ono caso has been placed on record where a baby was smothered smoth-ered In bed whllo sleeping between its uarents. At an afternoon reception, whllo sovernl Indies wero exchanging baby wisdom, these reports were given: "I have just heard from our friends with tho now daughter, their first child. Thoy are so afraid that Boraothlng will bo wrong with tho baby that If sho sleeps they think sho Is dying, and thoy sit up and watch her, and if sho awakos and cries they aro suro sho is rinnirermiHlv sick. They havo a; hard tlmo drosslng her. The father was suro tho nurse put tho llttlo vest on over its feet, but tho mother succeeded suc-ceeded in getting It on over Its head." A baby is an appetite framed by nature. Almost all articles on babies tako it for granted that tho children aro to bo brought up on bottles, nnd yet thriro, .aro flvo babies In ono neighborhood' taking naturo's solution. It may bo, that babies like thoso hvo do not need any editorial assistance. Charlie's wifo writes, us this: "Tho Lord doesn't send any babies to this homo. I guess ho thinks 1 don't know much about taking caro of them. But I do lovo tho llttlo folk." Can you toll by a baby's cry whether, it is a pin, pain or spunk? Bnby's first attempts to uso its hands nro as humorous as a young man's first attempt to uso his heart. What nboat adopting children? Whon should tho childless prefer responsibility re-sponsibility and doing to only giving charity money? Aro thoro principlos to go by? Bo just as caroful of tho boys as you aro of tho girls. It may bo only carolessnoss which makes It harder to ralso a baby boy than It is to ralso n baby girl. Why Is it oaslor to toll your friends all about your baby than to listen to their reports of tholrs? |