The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-07-22

Unless you have put your child on a
safe diet OF lactated food, or have Ii at
hand TO be used at oncs on the first indi-
cation OF looseness or loss OF strength, the
door Is wide open for fatal summer dis
easss that carry of one-fifth OF all the
babies before they are year old.
The slight attack of diarrhoea that a
child fed on lactated food rapidly over
comes, prostratss the infant who has not
been Keeping up its strength because the
ordinary food
More persons will die during the COM
Ing t~o months than at any other time
of the year.
"Ana the greatest proportion of these
twill strike down children under fve
years, and from six to eight ont OF every
10 will be traced by the board of health
to the ignorance or carslessness OF moth
ers, who win mourn the loss of their
children as sincerely and deeply as any
mother could
The greatest Eouroe of mortality this
month and next will be intestinal dis
eases, due to improper food, which sows
the seeds Of diarrhosa and cholera. Hos
whiting nights ripen them into full fru-
ition.
Boards Of health. ply sioIans and moth
ers agree tlat there are bus two ways by
which babies lives may be absolutely in
sured against oholerasinfantum and the
wasting disorders Of hot weather. One is
healthy, abundant mothers milk, and
the other Is lactated food. In thousands
OF homes whers love and watohfulness
seem to have surrounded baby with every
safeguard, the two conditions that lead to
cholera infantum often exist-an unnutri-
tious diet ard the possibility of conta-
GIN in food.
Thers is no reason today why Young
children should not receive perfect nour-
ishIuent and to kept absolutely free
from any possibility Of contagion. Lac
tateo food Is always obtainable, and child
rem OF every age take 1t eagerly and retain
1t on their stonlaohs. Physicians aud
nurses who have watched the growth Of
large families Of children, know how nu-
trlt1ous, how easily digested, and how ab-
soluteiy pure lactated food is, and how
eagarlysit is taken By children that can
not take other nourishment.
Mothers who have no settled plan for
feeding their children, but drift along
into hos weather, giving them all sorts of
FOOD, hoping and lraying they win get
through the summer, have every reason
TO dread the hot weather and the cholera
inlantup which Is now raging in every
city in the country.
Moshers. who have had large experience
with sick children emphasize the fact
that houses where laotated food is used
esoaps WASTING diseases In most signiti.
can't manner.
s<aosatoa iool ~ prepared WIN tne bru5
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 uke
mothers milk. Pure milk sugar Is the
basis. because 1t Is also the oasis OF moth
er's milkj 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, thus
making partially digested fotd that Is
eaailg assimilated by the fesblest stomach,
10 has protected thousands Of little ones
from summer ailments and saved their
boy of Mrs; W. A.. Shea of 81 fremont
81, Peabody, Mass. whose picture is
giien above. Her letter follows:
peabody, Mass, Dec. 81, 1895,
Wells, Richardson s. Co., Gentlemen
Our baby Is now 10 months old and with
ont bleunish. Ae Is just pink and white,
with large violet eyes and light hair
tell you what think of Laotae~E food
I think there Is nothing like it. This is
our second baby, boy. 1he frat YVES
girl, and nursed her until she was Is
months old. Now isn't this strange our
poy would not take the breast, although
tne nurss actually starved himf Our
doctor advised me TO use Lactated Food
as he Thought 1t the best. tried it and
s1ink it as good. and In many GASES
}betFer than mothers milk, 1 wish i
might have been able to nd his picture
40 10 raqhths, as.te looks TO be q year and
half, but ! send this. taken at Just s
months. have already Recommended
La thtsd Food to numbers. 4 bave ssSn
babies who haze taken other foods and i
know that Lactated Food Is far superior
to them.