Show THE GROWING CHILD twentieth century infancy is cared for with scrupulous attention from the very ilist breath it draws obedience is paid to alio demands of hygiene as understood der stood in aliese days of enlightenment puling babies advent into this vale of tears seems worth so little to them that they appear to be quite ready to relinquish the struggle for existence before jt ha well begun are popped willy nilly into incubator a there to be cultivated into a happier and healthier state of existence in these nurseries within a nursery little babies too feeble to exist under ordinary circumstances are reared on medicated air for even the air of the room in the incubator stands ig considered carrying as it may deleterious germs to the breath of the baby no microbes mic robes no cold draughts not even any sudden jarring sound disturb the deep of the couple of pounds or so of humanity who sleeps and feeds alio weary hours away sometimes ho is so fragile that only a few drops of nourishment can be given to him at once yet in time lie becomes a lusty mho can and will take his meals with alie heartiest appetite in baby land no rustier comfort to the anxious mother exists than the old baying there is life there is hope As blaster baby grows older lie is the subject in many modern homes of new systems rudely called crazes by alic skeptic ac present vegetarianism is being tried in many society nurseries and hardy boys and beautiful gails arc pointed to by fond mothers as children alio have never tasted animal food in their lives aseptic principles have for years reigned in well conducted nurseries for before alic new for and rooms extended to the living apartments of a domicile alio b devoted to the chicks were devoid of all germ traps of the kind the child of today is educated on a perfectly new scheme the old way of teaching the ABC being pushed on one side to make way for various odd methods in alic old days children almost taught to read by learning alie look of the letters on their play blocks not so alie child of today who h taught to read by learning sounds instead of by familiarizing liis eyes to alio appearance of letters and becoming acquainted quain ted with word formations in that way there is a tendency among alie parents of this generation to act upon alie widely debated theory that a childs brain should bo allowed to lie fallow for the first seven years of its existence alic idea is not commended by aduca tiona lists who actually teach indeed they arc as a rule strongly of alie opinion eliat a child should be trained gradually into the capacity for learning rather than be suddenly plunged with faculties that have become atrophied for lack of being bied into alie stress of alio aduca dional arena where competition with other brains will herve to show up his shortcomings in a detrimental light |