The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

average seven months old. He weighs
Is pounds. while babies OF the same
age weigh as high as 25 pounds. But
IL Is when you feel his flesh, firm and
hard and meaty as an adults. and
when you see the muscles OF his torso
standing out like those OF a trained
athlete. that you realize that whether
his parents want to have an extraor-
binary baby or not they certainly havs
one. His activity makes it much harder
to take care of him than the ordi-
nary helpless little bundle. and he has
a very decided mind OF his own and a
set of lusty lungs with which to make
known whether or not he is having
his own way. But on the whole he is
a pretty happy youngster, and he
made record for babies the other day
when he was taken on his first trip to
Los Angeles. He was away from home
and mother from o'clock till Z. and
played around for an hour after he
returned home without being fed. Dur
ing all this time he had a better time
than anybody in spite OF the fact that
he had skipped two OF his meal hours
and his afternoon nap.
There is simply nothing to II except
the proper nourishing OF the body"
insists his father.
Look at all the spindle legged. mar
row shouldered, pale faced youngsters
in our schools. The trouble with them
is that they are starving TO death
starving for cell salts and sunlight the
two most active regulators OF cell VI
bratiOn on which health depends. They
are like potatoes left In a dark cellar.
Their parents do not know they are
starving. They would be horrihed at
the thought. But 1t Is true. They are
starving for the elements that COM
pose the various parts OF the body.
There are just Il OF these elements
which enter all organic life. They ars
oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen. carbon,
sulphur, iron. phosphorus. chlorine.
ffuorine, silicon. magnesium. sodium.
calcium, potassium. These are the cell
foods. The other natural elements used
in medicine are cell stimulants and
there would be no use for them at all
IL people were given the necessary
amount OF the cell foods.
"Of some Of the cell foods there 10
little danger Of not getting enough
We need but little carbon and hydro
gen. and we get it from many sources.
Spending plenty of time In the open air
during the day and sleeping on a cur
tained porch or In an airy room supply
the oxygen. With many OF the others
10 is not so easy. And so. with the
baby. as I see the need of the various
elements I mix them with his food.
This sort of feeding can not be done
indiscriminately. 1t would be Just al
dangerous for a mother who does not
understand cell feeding to begin giving
her puny baby iron and sulphur and
sodium and the rest OF the cell foods
as to give it any drugs about which
she knows nothing.
Nor would 1 advise all mothers to
undress their infants and turn them
out of doors. Because this Is possible
in midwinter here IN southern Cali
fornia with a baby properly nourished.
it would not be the right thing for
babies in Montana or Kansas or New
York. with the Thermometer at zero.
What mothers should do. however. no
matter in what country. Is to take or
their babies clothes for an hour or two
every day and put thSsn IN the sun IN
side the window. The action OF the
sun Is even more beneficial when Il
falls through glass than when II comes
directly upon the skin. And all babies
wear too many clothes. I have proved
10 my own satisfaction that with
enough sunlight. fresh air and cell
salts they don need any clothes at all. /,
When I have proved to my own salts
faction with this child that we love. all
my beliefs in regard to the rearing OF
children. I shall try to give other
parents the benefit OF my experience
At seven months Baby WoodruR Is
certainly a wonder. And ii Is to be
hoped his poor little nose will not be
put out of joint when he IS called upon
to defend his right TO first place IN
these foster parents affection, for tuSt
at the time OF his adoption the storix
flew down and began to build her nest
in the Woodruff chimney.