The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-07

teGo hing adult CANNES novel cerebral
nc ticns is what makes it necessary
for the astute physician TO look upon
grown relatives as members of the
/ semi-criminal class.
There is nothing speculative in the
/ dccior's brain. He did not retire into
himself, like the German who wished
L. 1vlite a treatise on the camel. and
eXLoSitate the Platonic idea of a new
baby. Newness and babyism in Sc are
alike unknown to him. Abstract con-
c. DtlonS are somebody else'S business.
not his His conclusions are arrived
al by watching several babies a day for
! 10 ears enter the world and start
a. ing their several tracks. Some be-
/ lorg 10 the Van Boodlers, some to or
'inary people. while others live in rows,
seven in a crib. and are turned over,
all at once, every hour. by the hospital
nurse All are much alike at the be-
ginning. but at the end of a few
months the youthful Van BoOdler
usually cries when he falls on his face,
wells and wh,nes all night and part Of
! the day. while the ornament of the
gutter takes buffets and rewards in
equal silence.
Ire most the doctor fOrmulates is
that any baby in fair health that he
has ever seen viii be an angel if it is
treated as nationally as the lower ami
niaiS treat their young, and a restless
pest II it is used as the fOOtbs II for all
the undevelODed emotions of it's bored
or neurOtic elders. He cannot diStill a
philosophy from his experience. but he
car tell you that if you give your baby
plenty OF air. winter and summer: food
al regular intervals only. attention only
wren some distinct need is to be salts
rcd. and otherwise let it grow accord
liS 10 Its own devices. observing and
mastering the world for couple Of
years, without any jOlts. pokes gig
fies or other grinding expressions from
its superiors. It's nerves will be serene,
IL understanding calm and original,
ana it Will have no vices. There are
numberlesS persons who think a baby
should be treated like an adult They
do not give it coffee or take ii to
dances, but they pity its quietness so
much that they give it all the excite
n emit they can without creating imme-
dsately visible havoc Anything which
gees against their desire to see the
baby laugh at them they consider the
DRY and absurd. The amusement they
derive from pitching the baby about,
picking it in the stomach and generally
btyinS it up is not a theory. but fact.
Y hat was good enough for them is
good enough for it.
me doctor does not argue with these
profound Observers. He tells the trained
nurse that if she ever pets the baby he
Il never employ her again and the
Parents that if they want TO follow
TIER own ideas there is no need Of
laying him for his. As the time goes
on he finds a larger proportion Of par
er Is who are as intelligent about their
babies as they are about young chick
er< but there still remain many who
don believe in theory. but in natural
ness, and hug the infants as a child
kTSs a newborn kitten. with a slower,
b Z no less certain result
The doctor goes quietly through life.
observing and directing and dropping
ali worry and responsibility when he
le&ves each case. His business is sci
cree. and he has mastered part of the
So ence of small babies. He knows that
Cr,istian Scientists despite surgeons,
an. that all sorts of people refuse ex-
pert knowledge which they don't like,
! ut he doesn't care. He finds progress
Interesting and enough fairly reason
able People TO keep him from feeling
lonely.