Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-22

| Mess you have put your Child on a
| SAFE dIct OF lactatcd food. or have it al
hand |" ee used at once on the first indi-
! taton M looscness or loss Of strength.
| the door is wide opcn for fatal summer
| diseases that carry of one-fifth of all
| IN. ,r, babies before they. are a year old.
| Tn" slight attack Of diarrhoea that 7
| enid icd on lactated food rapidly over
comes, prosrates the infant who has not
nrcn Keeping up its strength because the
heat has robbed him Of all appetite for
More persons viii lie during the com
in& Two months than at any other time
of the year.
And the greatest proportion Of these
deaths. says The New York Press will
strike down children under five years.
ana lI"m six T. eight out Of every ten
Will PC traced by the board Of health to
the ignorance or carelessness OF mothers,
VINO VIII mourn the loss Of their children
could
Thc, greatest source Of mortality this
month ana next will he Intestinal dis
eases, due to improper food, which sowS
the seeds Of diarrhoca ana cholera Hot
whiting nights ripen them into full fru-
tion.
Boards Of health. physicians ana moth
eIS agree that there are but two ways by
which babies lives may be absolutely in.
sured against cholera iufantum and the
wasting disorders NC hot weather One IN
healthy. abundant mothers milk ana H..
nthcr = lactatrd food. In thousands OF
homes where love ana watchfulness seem
/" nave surrounded baby with every safe
guard, the TWO conditions that lead ID
cholera infantum often exist-an unnu-
tritiouS dtct ana the possibility Of conta-
gipn in food.
There il M reason today why young
children should not receive perfect nour-
lihmcnt and De kept absolutely free
from amy possibility Of contacion Lac
tatcd food is always obtainabie, and chit
dren of every age take it eagerly and re-
taInft on their SiOmachS. Physicians AMI
nurses who have watched the growth or
large families Of children, know how nu-
trltI9us. how easily diEested. and how
absolutely pure llctated food is. and how
eagerly it ~ taken by children that can
not take other nJurishment
Mothers Who have III settled plan for
feeding their children, but drift along into
hnt weather. giving them all sorts OF
food. hoping ana praying they will gel
through tbs summer, have every reason
I'D dread the hot weather ana the cholera
inlantum which is now raging in every
city in the country.
Mothers who have had large experience
with sick children emphasize the fact that
houses where lactated food is used
cape wasting diseases in most Sgnifl-
cant manner.
Lactated food is prepared with the true
scientific knowledge that nothing better
can be done than to follow nature as
closely as possible in the feeding of young
children. Lactated food is most like
milk. Pure milk sugar is the
basis. because 1t is also the basis 81
mothers milk; there is added the richest
gluten -four Of wheat and oats. These
are subjected to high steam heat. and
while in constant motion and perfectly
cooked the finest malt barley is added,
mus making a partially digested food
hat is easily assimilated by the feeblest
stomach. II has protected thousands Of
title ones from summer ailments ana
iIVc1 their lives, as it did in the case of
he baby boy Of Mrs. W. A. Shea Of 81
fremont St, Peabody. Mass. whose pict-
ire is given above. Her letter follows:
Peabody, Mass. Dec. q. 1895.
Wells, Richardson & 90. Gentlemen
)ur baby is now 10 months old ana with
nut a blemish. lie is just pink and
white. with large violet eyes and light
lair. lie is so fat he is all dimpies.
must tell YOU what ! think of Lactated
'Ood. | think there is nothing like ii.
This is our second baby, a boy. The
irst was a girl. ana | nursed her until
he was Is months old. Now, isn't this
TRANCE, our hoy would not take the
,reast. although the nurse actually
tarvcd him? Our doctor advised me TO
se Lactated Food. as he thought it the
est | tried it and think it is as gOod.anI
n many eases better than mothers milk.
wish might have been able to send his
lecture ut 10 months. he looks to he
year ana q half. but / send this, taken
{ Just ) months. | have already recon-
1cnded Lactatcd Food to numbers. L
ave seen babies who have taken other
Gods ana | know that Lactated Food ls
ar SUPERIOR to them.