The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-19


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inches.
The healthiest and most perfect baby
in New York. if not in the country, is
little Freeman Lincoln MeinertZ. the
2ls-year-old son of Captain and Mrs.
5. |. Meinertz of CSC Warren street.
Brooklyn. The child, whose measure
ments, strength and robustness have
caused the admiring comment of ply
sicians and scientists, has just come
into public notice. but since the day
he was born his careful parents have
reared him according to the rules for
baby culture laid down in a book by +.
Harris Ruddock of the English Royal
college Of surgeons and George Lade,
licentiate of the faculty Of physicians
of Glasgow.
You may call this the scientific rails
ing of a baby" said his father today,
but / call il the natural method. To
be sure, the rules / followed were laid
down by scientists, but they simply
codified natures laws
Captain MeinertZ when asked what
the system had been. said:
Its just plenty of air, plenty OF eX-
ercise and simple food without meat of
any kind. The doctors say that under
certain circumstances meat may be
given small child. but my boy never
needed to eat anything that has been
slaughtered"
Captain Menertz was standing on
the steps of his home as he spoke. and
just then the wonderful baby came
urotting from the door. He certainly
bore out his reputation. stOcky, 2l2-
year-old, red checked yOungster, with
weli-rounded chest and legs that bulged
hard and red from the little half hose,
he looked the picture OF health with his
long fiaXen hair tumbled about his
shoulders. He had a fresh scar on his
forehead and the proud father ex-
planned that the child got it doing
stunts" in Prospect park, where he
/ plays every day.
IF il weren't for that scar" he said.
Freeman would stand on his head for
4 you"
The baby said nothing. but looked the
/ visitor over very graVely. He was
willing, though, to do his dumbbell eX-
Iercises. They were half-pOund weights
and he tossed them about with all the
/ ease of a gym instructor. While he
was at work. Captain Meinertz eX
/ planned the routine of the little mans
/ life
/ Hes up at o'clock every morning"
I said the father. 'and the first thing he
gets is his cold bath, winter or sum-
/ mer. Then he has breakfast Of bar
/ lev or oatmeal with condensed milk and
! water. After breakfast he exercises
with the dumbbells and sandbags for
1 ten minutes
! The sandbags resemble the bean
| bags" that children use in the game Of
/ that name but they are filled with
/ sand and weigh about three pounds
+ apiece. Captain Meinerts gave them 10
/ Freeman and the youngster began to
throw them around the room.
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After he gets his exercise in the
/ morning" the father went on. Il take
/ him 10 Prospect park. He plays there,
! runs about, rolls around, and then
: takes "a good swift walk with me. re-
( turning 10 the house at II o'clock. Then
/ he has luncheon, which is about the
/ same as his breakfast At Il O'Clock
+ he takes a nap and wakes up at > in
the afternoon to get piece of stale rye
( bread and a graham cracker. He then
! goes ont to play with other children or
Z maybe back 10 the park. Al o'clock
he is here for his dinner of oatmeal
and hominy. Then he goes TO bed and
/ sleeps like q top
The effects of this training are evil
/ dent. Freeman is IS inches tall. weighs
. SO pounds and the chest expanded is
SO inches. Since he was an infant i'm
arms his health has been good. and
when he was a year old he weighed %
pounds.
After Captain Meinert was ready 10
start with the grave little boy i'm knick-
ers. who carried large American flag,
he said,
Many a time the boy here has car
ried the old flag through Prospect park
on the cold days last winter. He likes
the snow. and since Ire IS clad hygien-
ically. there's no danger to him even
then. But don't think he's any sort OF
freak yOungster. He isn't. He's just a
healthy boy. and he'll cry like other
little boys if he doesn't get what he
wants. lie likes music and every time
We meet d hurdy- gurdy on our walks
he insists that ] stop and listen 10 il.
If ] don't there's trouble. Another
things he insists on having a pretty
flower. and as for the American flag,
( why, ne wants 10 carry it all the time
he's walking
The father was asked If the scientific
training forbade giving the boy candy.
Not immoderation' was the reply
and Just 10 prove it he gave Freeman a
piece of candy which the perfect
baby" seized as eagerly as any other
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