The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-17

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- Indication of trouble or pain. He
+r4ouently only exercising his lungs,
80 4 will do him no harm to let him
.bout bit, after making sure that he
= r,t suffering in any way. It is his
o,ry way of indulging in physical Gull
,,rs II may be a little temper, and
- IL should be, and he is we'll under
,,.v il is not well to make him hush
GOO suddenly, if he is crying very hard,
tor in his endeavors to swallow his
sails his whole frame will be convulsed,
gr,lrlv to his physical detriment.
There is a wide margin between a
ocrying baby" whining continually and
one who screams out his disapprobation
when things do not suit.
This refers, of course, to little baby
whose only language is a cry, and is
,ot meant as an argument in favor of
The pink and white tyranny of the
shnd The idea is not to repress too
much or too quickly.
Then. when baby is having a good
-ine in his bath, splashing and kicking
about. he need not be hurried if the
tempera ture of the room is right. Let
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comes to the drying process let him
INN and twist and perform his funny
TrrIa acrObatic tricks before the con-
fning and hampering clothes are
doHned.
Revolution In Baby Clothes.
revolution has come about in the
matter of baby clothes. The best ply
scians now say that there is no use
making a little body like hard log
of wood, pinned in bands and rolled
and swathed, until it can only breathe
with the top of its lungs. Great prog
ress has been made in the last few
Years in methods of caring for the
physical being of the children, and
mothers begin at the beginning dress
ing them in loose, soft, warm clothing
The little girl who complained that
too much starchness made the stiff
ness scratch her barent S." epitomized
the system of dressing a child for
show instead of comfort.
The more a child is encouraged to
spend it's time out of doors, the bet
ter chance it has of growing up to be
healthy, normal being. This is equal
Nv true of the child of either sex.
Girls now have as good d chance as
boys to run, play and exercise with as
much freedom as if they were boys.
This change in the old-time custom
of giving the boys all the outdoor adj
vantages and bringing up the girls to
be delicate and "lady-like" has worked
like magic during the past few years.
One need only to look at the bright
eyed. broad-shouldered, erect forms of
the young girls of to-day to realize
that some potent influence has been
al work to give them such a physical
advantage over their mothers.
The Daily Bath.
The daily bath-not necessarily a
tub" but the daily contact of water
with the body-the brisk rub, a few
simple calsthenic exercises, with deep
breathing, go a long way toward keep
ing a child in a healthy condition. But
all the physical exercises, and all the
outdoor life that can be given a child.
will never counterfeit the evils of over
feeding and wrong-feeding. Plain,
wholesome fare, with fruit and milk,
given at regular intervals. will insure
good digestion, without which child
enters the battle of life severely
handicapped. When a mother dis
eliminates between a good, healthy
hunger and a craving appetite in her
child, it is a long step toward the So
luton of the question of when and
how to feed her offspring.
The English are noted for their
physical endurance, largely due to
their training in childhood. They are
great pedestrians and think nothing of
walking ten and twenty miles at
stretch without fatigue. The fathers
and mothers go off on long rambles
with the children across fields and on
country roads, beginning with short
walks and increasing them as the chill
dren grow older and stronger.
On these jaunts the boys and girls
are encouraged to breathe deeply and
TO walk with chests we'll out and heads
erect. AS a result, chests are we'll de-
veoped, and pulmonary diseases are
rare among the English.
American fathers and mothers
would do we'll to pay more attention
to the physical development of their
children than they do. If possible,
the children should be taken on daily
1aunts, and while their muscles are
being developed, their minds will also
expand in the freedom of out-of-door
life.
A Gymnasium i'm Every House.
Every home should have a gymnas-
lum. This need not be a room fitted
up with complicated apparatus, but
corner which is looked upon as
trysting place for the mother to meet
with her children regularly for sys-
tematc exercise. If a piano is avail
able, so much the better, for with
marching and singing games, wand
exercises, and all sorts of things I'M
der the guise of good time, much
may be accomplished in the way of
forming habits of regularity in exer-
clsing.
A good regime for a mother to fol-
low may be summarized thus:
Teach the children to sleep in
rooms that are we'll ventilated, accus-
air.
On rising in the morning, their first
uuty should be to brush the teeth and