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Show httowMucftWater Should Baly Get? ''AFamous Authority's "Rule Dy TluthBrittatn Baby specialists agree nowadays, that during the first six months, babies must have three ounces of fluid per pound of body weight daily. An eight-pound eight-pound baby, for instance, needs twenty-four ounces of fluid. Later on the rule is two ounces of fluid per pound of body weight. The amount of fluid absorbed by a breast-fed baby Is best determined by weighing him before and after feeding for the whole day; and It is easily calculated for the bottle-fed one. Then make up any deficiency de-ficiency with water. Giving baby sufficient -water orten relieves his feverish, crying, upset and restless spells. If it doesn't, give him a few drops of Fletcher's Castoria. For these and other ills of babies and children such as colic, cholera, diarrhea, diar-rhea, gas on stomach and bowels', constipation, con-stipation, sour stomach, loss of sleep, underweight, etc., leading physicians say there's nothing so effective. It is purely vegetable the recipe Is on the wrapper and millions of mothers have depended on it In over thirty pears of ever increasing use. It regulates regu-lates baby's bowels, makes him sleep and eat right, enables him to get full nourishment from his food, so he ir.-;reases ir.-;reases in weight as he should. With each package you get a book on Motherhood Moth-erhood worth its weight ir gold. Just a word of caution. Look for ihe signature of Chas. H. Fletcher on the package so you'll be sure to get the genuine. The forty-cent bottles contain thirty-five doses. |