Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-04-07
ALL ABOUT The BABY.
Chicago Physician Tells Fond Mothers
All About Their Offspring.

ALL ABOUT The BABY.
Chicago Physician Tells Fond Mothers
All About Their Offspring.
DR.. Robert N. Tooker, of Chicago,
has been writing valuable treatise on
babyhood, which many a fond mother
will thank him for. "All About the
Baby" as the title suggests, is prima-
rily intended for the youthful wife and
mother. 1t is written in the conven-
lent form of questions and answers,
and even that personified interrogation
mark, the young mother, will hardly
be able to think up question for
which she cannot find clear, thought
full and sensible reply in the authors
long array of answers. The chapters
on "The Nursery" and on "Food and
Feeding" are especially valuable and
suggestive, and are well illustrated,
the plan given for the second floor of
a satisfactory house for a family"
being both practical and attractive.
In the discussion on food several
"hardshell" superstitions are exploded,
such, for instance, as the time-honored
"milk-from-one-cow" fable. The care
full mother inquiries:
"In obtaining milk for the baby's
use is it best to get the milk from one
cow?"
And the answer is:
"It is far better to get the mixed
milk from a herd of cows, such as is
supplied from a dairy and distributed
by an honest dairyman. No one cow,
however carefully bred, but will have
her occasional illness during which
her milk will be poor and colicky.
Stalled COWS always give milk which
is more or less acid and therefore liable
to cause disturbance. All milk dealers
are ready and glad to provide the ba-
by, for a little extra consideration,
with the freshest and best milk which
comes from the dairy. Your milkman
should be provided with special milk
can for your special use and sufficient
ly rewarded to stimulate him to use
extra care in his attentions to your
special needs"
The late Eugene Field was person
al friend of DR.. Tooker, and it is with
evident pleasure that "The shut-eye
Train" is quoted in the chapter on
"Sleep," wherein great stress is laid
on the Importance of forming the hab-
it's of small persons at an exceedingly
early period of their careers.
eff you expect your child to have
good habits when grown up you must
begin to educate it early-as soon as
you are able to assume the response
bilities of motherhood. If you are
lax and loose about the baby's habits
it will soon appreciate the fact and you
will regret it later. Sleep, perhaps,
as much or more than any other item
of nursery regime depends on habit
and mild but decided purpose. A lack
of firmness in the early months of
baby's life may not only render its
early years a burden to itself but an
annoyance, if not q nuisance, to the
entire household"
Nursing mothers are warned by DR..
Tooker of the great danger of giving
way to ill-temper, "a mothers milk
having been rendered absolutely pois-
onous to her babe by sudden anger or
by some nervous shock" and in illus
tration a story is told of woman who
brought her infant to the Lincoln Park
Sanitarium last summer. The baby
was six months old, thin and wretch
edly nervous, unable to sleep and in
quite serious condition, yet the doc
tors could not succeed in discovering
the cause of the trouble, and were
much puzzled by the case. At last it
was suggested that the mothers do
mestic relations might be responsible
for her child's condition, and she was
asked whether she lived happily with
her husband.
"We quarrel almost every day about
something, and Of course 1 get mad"
was her reply.
1t was explained to the woman that
"getting mad" was a luxury which
she must make up her mind to forego
as long as she was nursing her baby,
and some months afterward she re-
appeared at the sanitarium, proudly
displaying big, healty.looking boy.
"Do you remember me ?" she in
ouired. ~ want to show you my
baby. Isn't he fine? You told me it
was my getting angry that allied him,
and haven't got mad since."