Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-07

100, mas net been without its richness
ana beauty, although | have polished
the kitchen stove and scrubbed the oil
cloth in the bathroom. l also find | am
not half so tired when my thoughts are
busy with the things that are really in
tefesung, And when | have only a few
INES IN my mind at a time--as many as
| can carry in one glance-I get their
fullness and meaning as | have never
done before.-M. s. s., San Francisco
in Harper's Bazaar.
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Feed the Baby What 1t Wants.
A baby knows when he wants TO eat.
and is provided with an excellent and
mast musical apparatus for conveying
that tact to your apprehension, says DR.
Woods Hutchinson, in the February
Noman'S Home Companion. He knows
what he wants, and will reject vigorous
~ what doesn't suit him. And you may
be sure that he knows far better than
most adults when he has had enough.
This faculty is present from his very
earliest appearance upon the stage Of
life. During the first three days of his
existence the healthy baby cries but lit
tie and sleeps almost constantly; and we
have now discovered that during this
period he not only requires no food. but
IS better off without it. He is still di-
gesting and living upon the nourishment
in his blood derived from the veins of
his mother. and until that process is
completed, food in his little stomach is
foreign body. In fact the impression
that collie or 'colickiness' in a baby is a
natural characteristic is chiefly due to
the senSeleSs insiStence of officous
nurses and anxious mothers upon crowd
ing things into the baby's stomach dur
ing his first three days. There is an
other clear indication on the part of
Nature Of this fact, if we had only been
open minded enough to see it, in that
there is no natural supply of nourish-
ment for the child until the close of
these three days. The horrible things
that are poked into the unfortunate
baby's mouth in order TO correct this
stupid oversight on the part of Nature
and keep it from starving to death would
almost stagger eredulity.
His faculty of knowing what he
wants in the way of food is equally to
be trusted He is largely creature of
circumstances here, and if what he real
ly likes doesn't happen to be offered
him, he of course can Indicate no prefer
ence for it. He vastly prefers natures
own source of nOurishment, and is Il
thousand times justified in his prefer
ence. Nature has taken a quarter of
million years in fitting a cows milk to
grow not baby, but a calf and a moth
er's milk to grow a baby, and we cannot
expect to completely reverse the process
in one generation. Not only is the natur-
al supply a far better food, but it is
infinitely freer from risks of contamina-
ton and the conveyance of disease"
-o-:'o~
Don't Take Up Quarrels.
Children will quarrel just as surely as
little birds who squabble and push each
other out of their nest. And they will
be making mud pies and skipping the
rope while the parents are casting rapler
glances at each other on account of the
little folks. 1t is natural for an old hen
to rutle her feathe.s and fly at anything
or anyone who offends her chick, and
parents get ruined. too. and often make
bad friends which last lifetime.
Again teach the children to be forgiv-
ing when they are in the wrong. 1t Is
not an easy thing to forgive an intention
al wrong, yet play days are filled with
little Intentional hurts and neglects, for
children, sweet and angelic as they can
be, can be very cruel to their compan-
ions.
Some children are never loved and
make few friends, simply because they
have arbitrary dispositions which are
never crrbed They soon become tyran-
nical even in their play, and are never
welcome in a crowd. Meekness Is not
natural virtue with most children, Tor
they have minds of their own, and the
only wav they know how to settle diff
culties is not by reason but by quarrel
ing. It is the old defensive trait which
comes to us from the remote past ana
has a way of cropping out In every new
generation to a certain extent. The gen
tie home influence is what makes these
children more gentle, more refined, ana
more willing to forgive, and 1t also LEADS
up to making them more favored ia So
cial circles.
On Being Good.
The end Of the good resolutions made
on January / usually sets III about this
time Just as we'll. perhaps, for at the
best they are frozen and unhuman de-
vices to attain uprightness. IT may be
the third week in January: 1t may ne
February: but they are pretty sure to go
fo the board at last. \ very hfehke
document il the diary Of the crusty old
DR.. Johnson. We select Il few Jottngs:
"I7G0-Resoived, 10 rise as early as j
i7G1-My purpose is to regulate my
"i'iG4-My purpose is from this time to
.17f4. JSeptemberi-I resolve. TO rise
carly, not later than six, if | can; l hope
sooner. but as soon as l can.
.l765-My resolution, | purpose to
rise AZ eight. because. though shall
hot vet rise carly, It will be much carrier
than now rise. for ! often lie TIL two.
1851 purpose and hope 70 rise
early iu the morning, at eight. and by
degrees n six.
early I'm the morning.
..f7T4-T hope to rise al eight"
Fvj9rrtfy no lack Of good resolutions:
vet only few years before his death
wc End him writing:
II have now spent about tfty-hve
years in resolving: having from the earli-
est time almost that ] ca0 remember,
bspn forming schemes Of better Life.
7 have done nothing. Ny me