Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-21
Days of Anxiety Re-
turn for Parents.
Will Baby Get Through the
Summer in Safety?
Many Little Lives Depend on
Proper Diet.
Cholera Infantum is Most to be
Dreaded.
Lactatsd Food the Best Preventive
Known.


Approaching summer casts its shadow on
many mothers heart
Every summer safely passed is a golden
milestone in baby's life.
But think of the countless little lives that
in June, July and August are to swell the
list of infant deaths under five years.
How many mother would like to hide
her precious baby in her bosom till the
danger is passed. But che must know that
only intelligent, thoughtful care can keep
the baby well.
High temperature with improper feeding
now brings dread cholera infantum, dia-.
rrhGa and convulsions.
With the use of proper food, and there 10
nothing so absolutely good as lactated food,
these dangers may be avoided.
Reports from homes all over the country,
and especially from the large institutions
where the great number of infants gives
ample data for accurate judgment, show
that babies thrive best upon lactated food.
The supreme Importance Of pure, nutri-
tious nourishment, and the long study by
many of the most prominent physicians in
the country of infant disorders from mis-
| takes in diet, led to the preparation of
lactated food. Next to pure mothers milk,
it is the most nourishipg, strengthening,
readily digested and most pslatablc food
that can be given baby.
| 1t more closely resembles mothers milk
than any other food known. Its basis 10
sugar of milk which is the basis of mothers
milk. With this is combined the nutritive
elements of wheat, barley and oats in such
proportion as best meets the requirements
of the rapidly growing child.
Baby must eat well to keep up strength
and resist disease.
| When teething is added to the fretfulness
due to hot westher, many babies refuse all
other nourishment except lactated food,
which they take with decided relish.
In the preparation of lactated food not
only has absolute purity and freedom from
possibility of contsgion, as well as . re-
markable nourisbing power been secured,
but also pleasant taste that induces babies.
especially when being weaned to take food
when nothing else will tempt them.
1t is when the strength is not kept up
and the child is allowed to grow nervous,
thin and fretful that a slight increase in
heat brings on the exbaustig disrrhna or
fatal cholera infantum. No household
where there are children should be a day
without lactated food, especislly in June
and July.
With lactated food and reasonable care
in keeping the baby's dishes carefully
scalded, parents may watch baby with de-
light as it grows every day stronger and
healthier.
Summer after summer testifes to the
power of lactated food to make plump,
rosy checks and sturdy little legs and arms
and bodies, and days full of noise and glee
and nights of sound refreshing sleep.
The prettiest babies are the healthy,
chubby, rosy ones. Lactated food gives
babies solid flesh and bones and saves their
lives when threatened with wasting diseases.
1t is to be had at any drug store, and 10 50
inexpensive that no mother need be with
out it.