Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-09-11

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win be manufactured and viii be put
Immediately into barges for delivery
at any point on the shore. and be dis
tributed by wagons. incidentally the
scheme win avert the 10 cents a ton
tax recently imposed
Matching Babies by Heat.
Those who return from the Buffalo
exposition say thar II comparisons are
not made with Chicago, the fair is a
great treat. The Midway is mile
long. The women are as much inter
ested In the ,baby incubator as any
thing, where one person saw twelve
babies. all from the city Of Buffalo
all being what might be called from
i've to seven months children. In En-
rope there are many such hospitals
| and the record Is that so per cent. of
| the children entered live to be re-
| turned, good healthy children to their
parents.
| Each child IL stretched out on
dolls cot In glass case. Girls are
| labeled with white ribbon and boys
with red. Pure air is fed In through
the bottom, heated by a lamp and
sterilized. A certain temperature is
sustained with critical care, for drop
of few degrees would kill the child.
| II 1t becomes too warm the heat opens
a valve and FLOWS more air to enter
and closes II too cold. The child Is
weighed every morning. The room
where the children are given their
daily bath and where fed and taken
care of when they cry is partitioned
off with glass partitions. The air is
maintained at the same temperature
and purity as in the cots. Partitions
being of glass, visitors are enabled at
| all times to see.
The world is indebted to the French
/ FOR this baby saving idea. Prema-
| ture births usually mean death. es-
pecially In smaller communities,
where skin sad the facilities are
lacking. The French, with all their
faults, are born scientists. l once
visited such an incubator In New York
city, Both physicians and nurses
were French. Especially the former
| viewed their work as a cold scientific
problem. They would have had the
same enthusiasm over bugs or rocks.
Perhaps 1t ls as we'll and we should
he equally grateful for they get the
results,
AS for the white-garbed French
nurses, they eooed and sputtered over
the babies much like an American
| mother. A woman is woman, what
ever the nationality.
DON'T BE Afraid of Spiders.
Madison is rife In spiders and there
are many varieties Our local author
ity on insects is Dean Bryce of the un-
iversity. and when Que finds rarity,
the thing is shut UP in a bottle and
taken to this wise man, who knows
much about many things, If the pro-
lessor needs further light, the insect
is dispatched to Milwaukee or Chiea-
so.
Public Librarian Peckham OF Mil
waukee has large collection or spi--
6ers. having made an especial study
OF them, and in speaking of the death
OF little girl at Neenah. ne makes
the statement that there are no spi-
ders In Wisconsin whose bite can pro-
duce death In tropical countries
there are some, such as the tarantula.
that inject poison with their bite,
but it IS by no means fatal. although
causing the bitten part to swell and be
very painful. o.
Generally" he says. these cases
OF children dying from spider bites
are announced simply to supply some
cause of death. The child is perhaps
overheated and he gets hives and is
sick. The doctor comes and the moth
" says: ooh, doctor. the baby has
been bitten by a spider The skin
is infiammed and the doctor being cas-
lily satisfied, the case is regarded as a
sure result of spiders bite"
1t Is strange fact that children,
as a rule, certainly have no natural
repugnance to insects and the like.
They will play with angleworms,
.oads, spiders and even snakes with
enthusiasm until they are schooled to
dislike by the expression of aversion
on the part OF adults. 1t would be
better to let the child grow up without
this aversions which takes much of the
pleasure out Of life. The natural in
stincts are safe until perverted. A
child looking up into the face of its
father, who was a very homely man,
asked:
Did God make you, papaF
Eyes, my child" was the reply.
And did he mako me, toor was
the next query.
YES, dear
The child thought moment and
then added:
He's doing better work lately,
amt He papaY
ORLANDO BURNETT.
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