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Show DONT FORCE THE ' BABY TO, WALH Let Nature Assert Itself and Your Child Will Use Legs of His Own Accord ' THE time when a child beclns to walk differs greatly in different families. Tho child that Is not strong, or has beeu sick, will not begin to walk as soon as the healthy heal-thy child. About tho eighth month a child shows inclinations to try locomotion. loco-motion. It will pull itself up and stand a lktlo on its feet during the tenth or eleventh mouth. It begins to go alone from the fourteenth to tho fifteenth fif-teenth month. It Is much better for tho child to creep at first, especially if It Is heavy. If walking la trloJ too soon the logs, which aro not yot strong enough to support tho weight of tho child, will bend under, and bow legs will result. The pulling about that tho child does, such as raising itself by Its hands to its feet, all help towards strengthening tho muscles of the Mr-Let Mr-Let tho child develop itself natural' and do not force him to an uprlghf position before he is ready for it- creeping-dress of stout gingham lU keep the clothes from getting sauk It is made long enough to come do3 over the dress and skirts and then t fold and como up to the waist, whea It is hold in place bv a band that but- ( tons around tho waist, tho lower P1 of the Bklrt having heen gathered In to it omo children do remarkable things walk when only eight or nice months old. or stand up and wali about without tho lutermediary practice prac-tice of creeping; but these are only very exceptional mhos. |