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Show I " " " How Biliie Burke Cares for Her Baby Sleep and Routine She Believes Are Next to Food In Importance 1 1 NO "DON'T DO THIS" IN THE PLAYTIME OF ACTRESS' DAUGHTER. By BILL1 E BURKE (Mrs. Florcnz Ziegfeld, Jr.) NEW YORK. Next to feeding, I he most important thing about a child's life Is sleeping and keeping a regular 'routine The nignt hours aro made for jbsbles to sleep through and everv hour I taken off night hours is that much taken off tho babies' lives. Seven or half past seven o'clock is Into enough for any baby to be up and if properlv traine 1 the bnby will sleep all through tho night without waking A baby should not be takn from its I bed at night under anv CfrCUmBtanceB, for once it gets In the habit of getting up, It will Insist on It every time It wakes up. As it grows Older under no prctenso should ir be allowed to "make excuses for staying up when It should be in bed. My three-year old Patricia in vents the most wonderful excuses for not going to bed when she should but they are of no rv. all as far as I am concerned. AS SHE PLE ACES My baby awakes every morning at seven thirty and Is ready to go out, by nine o'clock She stays oui three hours has her lunch and then goes out again, taking her nap later in the afternoon, from two to four, which Is essential for a baby whether It sleeps or not. This daily schedule Is almost invariably followed and Patricia Pat-ricia knows well that she cannot change It. The morning play hour for Patricia H a wonderful thing, for I have an Idea all my own about It. She has her own place to play and In it during 1 her three hours piny time in the morning morn-ing sho may do uny thing she wills and there is no one tc tell her "you shall not." - ; vj 'j Bilhe Burke and Patricia in th garden. 1 1 I believe that some mothers are capable ca-pable of taking care of their child bet ter than others And In such cases the mother Bhould by all means devote her time to the training of the child. In the case of a mother who know in tuitlvely that sh. Is no: capable of training the child, it is far better to I employ a nurse I do not believe a I child should be turned over to a nurse ! entirely, but thai the mother should supervise the iiuise and should spend a certain time each day with the child. Or course. I know quite well that all cannot afford to have a nurse or someone some-one to take care of the child, but when it Is at all possible it Is far better for the relations between mother and child if the mother looks more after the mental than the bodily health of tho child. And do not mistake If I believed that it would be belter for I me to do every single thing for mv child and sacrifice everything of my outside life and v. ork I would do it As to dressing I have always been of the opinion that children are bun died up too much and Patricia has been ver lightly diessed all of her life. In warm weather and cold. Everything Every-thing she has hangs from the shoulders shoul-ders and in all her little life she has never had a cold. She has cool, not cold or v. arm. baths Fresh air, I believe. be-lieve. Is an essential After all I rath er believe that the Spartacans had something of Hie right idea when they exposed their children to the weather, for a hot house child is a terror to its parents and a sad thing to itself. |