New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-02
CARE OF INFANTS.
Hozc to Make Them "BeGutff@I
Little animals.

Professor Earl Barnes calls the child a beauti-
fI LITTLE ANIMAL said Mrs. T. S. FowlerSch6ney,
nb,siciar to the childrens department Of the Ger
man Polytechnic, speaking TO the Department OF Do-
nestle Science of Brooklyn Institute recently.
a.Apd it is true" she continued, that the better
,in,as the children are the stronger and more eff
ciert the race will be as whole. 1t is an almost
solemn thing to reflect that on our treatment OF our
offspring depend their life or death in infancy
their health. strength and efficiency in after life.
The child should do his first years growth IN MS
first year. He will do it satisfactorily In MS
fifth or sixth year Neither will he do his fifth or
sixth years growing satisfactorily in his tenth or
twelfth year.
'Only in a training school for the purpose can
young women learn the things which every mother
should know domestic science and the care of in
fants. Such training school should be ADDED 10
every college and institution of higher learning tor
women One day 1 asked young woman, newly
graduated from Ann Arbor University, to watch a
nan If water on the fire and tell me when it boiled
The answer she made was, How shall know
when il bos?
.crr nv department at the hospital have to do
with women who are the wives of laborers or small
wage earners. They are fairly well educated WON
en- not illiterate and you would hardly call them
an ignorant class. Yet they know absolutely noun
ing about the OF either their own booles OF
+nosa Of their babies. They know nothing of the
laws Of health When they come to me with thelr
Arst baby they don't know how to dress It or FEED
1t or handle it. They have never been taught there
has never been either place or time provided for
them TO learn. They have probably been wage
earners themselves since they were fourteen.
Among the helpful IDEAS that DR.. Fowler-Schoney
gave for the care Of young children were the toi-
lowing
Bands should be made Of stockinet instead OF
flannel because the former gives with every mo-
Meat broths are given as soon as the child Is
weaned but no solid meats III after me Idth year
and then only if the child wants It. and keeps
much more susceptible to shock than those OF an
adult, and it is severe nervous shock to drag OF
oraIe vbeg It Is given it's bottle II It Is strong
and vigorous it may suck in the milk rapidly
that it win enter the air passages and lungs, where
it may produce what is called Inhalation pneumo-
MIA Lay the baby on its side when i takes it's
S Sa1e4 rock oP ffia While has h It's
Never let older child see tempting food which
shun all those rubber sucking pieces known
babys comfort and other SEDUCTIVE names They
the mouth Pieces Of them sometimes come off
and 60 into the baby's stomach Worst Of ali
some infants derive such an unnatural satisfac-
out food. and lose the nourishment they ought to
Children often cry because they are thirsty. They
are given milk, and it satisfies their thirst but in
the stomach it becomes solid food, where it may
not be needed Always try a child with water
Accustom a child from earliest infancy to take
liquid from spoon This is often of the greatest
value in illness when medicine has to be admtn-
It could be a good thing # no one were permitted
to baby for the first three months of its life,
excepting those in actual attendance its wants
Even strong, well babies often the first three
months of life in the greatest discomfort and their
strength, vitality and nervous energy are exhausted
by the peting, handling or even constant presence
Of numerous persons.
Give the baby its rights It has a right in in
fancy TO the brightest, sunniest ARREST room
the house. In the ordinary city fiat that is the par
lor. the child old enough to creep, explore
and investigate for ITSELF It has right to
place where everything it touches will not be
taken away from it, where it will not hear the
everlasting. mo. no. baby: baby mustn't touch.'
The baby wants to touch and investigate great
many things. That is the way it learns. 1t has
right to room with things on the floor, which
It may handle all it wants to. in short, nursery.
In this nursery DR.. Fowler Schoney would have no
draperes, and only green shades at the windows
iron beds and furniture than was absolutely
necessary. On the walls she would have a Mother
Goose paper. printed with bright Mother Goose
pictures and vanished.
Remember that a child creeping about on the
floor is in temperature several degrees cooler
than even few feet further and often takes
cold in that way said she. yet a baby may be
taken in the coolest weather. providing there is
wind it is bundled up sufficiently, has a hot
water bottle and does not stay out long enough to
get cold. This is true of children old enough
play outdoors They may play outdoors for hours in
the coolest weather, if they viii only in every