Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-06-24
THE INCUBATED BABY
a Well-Spring of Pleasure and
Parental Joy.

Baby Cries mo More-The Carriage
needed NO LOnger-Its Slumbcrs
unbroken N Mamma Untrou-
bied at the Ball "A Valuable
French Scheme.
The question, "What shall be done with
the next-door baby ?" has at last been an
swered. 1t shall be ~incubated. Even the
next door parent could not object to this
remedy, since it is primarily designed for
the benefit Of the infant, and the delight
full results to the n~e;ghborhood are purely
incidental. The formula for the prescrip-
ton m from France, where it has been
tested with gratifying euccess by DR.. Ia
varnier, who must hereafter be reckoned
one Of the worlds greatest beneafct-
ors. Under his ingenious process sick
ly children become healthy, and discon-
tented ones cease to complain. There is
no more walking with them at night, and
that regular see-saw Of the rocker which
penetrates partition walls, and becomes
thunder when executed on the floor over
head, IAN, with stage coaches and bob
wigs, pass into the bygone. There need be
no anxiety about teething, no disturbance
because Of collie; the ~incubating infant at
tends to these matters for itself, and emerg-
es from the incubator fully equipped for
childhood's trials, having had no expert
ence Of q baby's tribulations. The incu-
bator itself is & very simple affair. 1t is q
box covered with . brass slide, and kept at
q temperature Of SO degrees by means Of hot
water. This is placed in a dark room, and
the child provided with a nursing bottle.
Here. in that serene contemplation, dear
alike to Buddha and to infants, it passes
the early months OF its existence. No one
trots it, no one bangs 1t on the back, nor
holds it so that its loose, unbalanced head
rolls helplessly from side to side. The
light does not shine into its winking eyes;
it is not tortured by stiff embroidery nor
thrown into fits by pins. Under such
beneficent influences it thrives as q young
animal should. II comes out strong Of
limb and ready to walk, and has outgrown
its little bod. 1t has escaped SO much that
it has accumulated q reserve fund Of stay
ing power, and meets childhood with
equanimity. 1t loon learns to talk,
and when it comes into the family circle
1t Is still an infant, but it is reasonable-it
is jolly. 1t has no sad recollections, no
suspicious and sudden alarms. The rela-
tons have taken no advantage Of it, and it
knows nothing Of the modification Of be-
ing put on exhibition and praised by the
false neighbor. The experiments Of DR..
Tavernier have been IN q large scale, and
he had at one time $50 infants reposing in
their little ovens. In the Founding Hos
pital, where he made his experiments, the
confusion Of a bedlam was succeeded by
the serenity Of a Quaker meeting. The
babies averaged the age.of eight months
and the weight Of sixteen pounds. Puny,
sickly, cross, they went to their little beds;
they drank from their bottles, they slept,
they meditated, they threw their arms and
legs about; they had new views OF life.
They stayed in this s~eclusion six months
and came out heavy and strong. One had
died, one had been reclaimed by repentant
parents. but the 1858 remaining charged
into the rooms like children of three years.
They experimental in motion, and in a
week were on foot walking. They began
to talk, and when a select committee Of
twelve, appointed by the French Govern
ment, went to investigate this astounding
discovery who can doubt but that they
could have given it intelligent verbal testi.
mony? One Of the beauties Of this expert.
ment lies in its simplicity. There is moth
ing expensive or difficult in the arrange.
ments. The warm little box would not
cost as much as a silver rattle; there need
be no nurse on constant duty; the coal
and cap, the numberless dresses are sup.
planted by a little wrapper; the carriage
is not needed; the mother can go intt
society, and, no longer on spasmodi'
guard. can give her husband her society
in the evening. His slumbers are un
broken either by walls or soothing, ant
the incubated infant is a well-spring O.
pleasure, a perennial joy.