Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-26
DO you love babies 2

do you love babies?
*fOf course! Everybody does. So youswill be inter
ested III what Comes next.
During the past six months, American women, lead
es9 in progressive movements for lettering humanity,
have brought to the attention of their home making
sisters a new popular science of great value in the
family circle.
At first it was studied by a few mothers who found
that it could simplify their daily lives and make home
brighter. Then a few physicians who had specialized
On ailments of children saw it's educational ~possfbili-
ties and began to read, and then to write it. Health
officers and city officials who were fighting sickness
and poverty next took it Zip. Now fully half the won.
ems clubs of the country have included the subject in
their programs for 1894, and the gospel is spread
ing from coast to coast.
For lack of a more technical term, we who are in.
terested in the work have coined a word. We call tais
science "Babyology." 1t means that branch of scienti.
fc study of man which deals simply, clearly, directly
and conprehersiyely withGta baby, as the founda-
ton on which is built national health, strength, intelli-
gonce and morality. It involves the Consideration of
every phase of baby's life, physical, mental and moral,
from its food to its play, from it's cleanliness Of body
to the sort Of owe lavished upon it. 1mre fascinat-
ing science for women has never been evolved.
Ai"Why," exclaims a mother, eve have always studied
babies!.
AS an individual, interested mother, perhaps You
have, Lady Mother. The United States, as a nation
has not. Just think! in one state, where they have
a perfect system for registering higa-grade hogs and
where the State Legislature appropriates thousands
every year to stamp out hog cholera, they do not re.
g;ster the birth of babies at all and the Legislature
does not appropriate a dollar to stamp out tuberculosis
which threatens the lives Of its babies. 4
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on the study OF babies. They have had their hands full
%doctoring grown-ups, who might have been healthy
adults if properly started in life.
No, after ushering the child into the world and pro.
nouncing it sound, the average physician has turned
the baby over to the parents, and under their care
it has remained until it developed some acute malady,
when the doctor re-appeared or the scene. The cure
of, the malady, not its prevention, has long been the
Office Of the family physician. They do better IN.
China, where physicians are paid only 50 long as the
health of the family Is good. .f
The world has also proceeded ON the theory that
with the birth Of the baby was born in the mother
some heavensent knowledge of how to raise the baby.
To be. sure, she was taught to read and write and cook
and sew, but there as no need to teach her how to
raise her baby. By some mysterious process, God sup
piled that knowledge.
That He did not is shown by the fact that twenty
five per cent of the deaths in our country are of
children under one year of age.
The responsibility for babylife does not lie with
the Creator. nor the mother, but with those whose
duty it is to see that every young" woman is taught
Babyology along with the" orher "o'ogies' includedSin
the. course Of study set forth in public and private
schools. - 49," ~
Another mistaken belief about babies has been that
they are born delicate or strong; and, as they are
born, so must they live-that is if they live at all!
The delicate baby has been regarded as a %dispensa-
ton of Providence, to be accepted with patience and