Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-02
LITTLE TALKS ON BABYOLOGY
By ANNA S7EESE RICHARDSON
Director Of The Better Bureau the Wonnan Home Companion
Hl.@. No. 2
Babys Source of Health and Strength:-Food

The last article on this Fascinating SUBJECT ~
Labyology defined the science OF Daby-stody anu 'ol
how II had sprung from the Better Babes Coh'estS'
Perhaps the most amazing feature or my 'lSi''
to these contests, where watched doctors ana no''
ers examining the babies was the large number OF
, women who did not know ther own babies. On yes,
they knew Babys name the color Of his hair ana MS
owes the exact point where his cheek or chm prone
into delightful di.nple the side of his family from
which hawkins cot his many good points and MS le"
mad ones he day when he had first sat up or toddice
across the floor thcsc and many other things the
mothers knew but still they did not know what wa"
going On inside of baby. in the digestive apparatus VA
which Sc much of his heal.h and happiness oepe'lo
or course il Baby could talk Mother would kho"
exactly how he feels, because he could e&'sln "''''
t,c ache is located. But when ones means VI 'o'i'
runcaon is limited WrigslnS. a'lt roIllhs up Ai'
ewes and emitting disturbed yaps, .Nother muSt ooN
for signs or symptoms TO take the place OF "o'ue'
complaints
And there are SO many ways i'll Whlch Tie 'ie'''
rho sku the ewes the very actions OF baby indicate
that his digestion is not in good working oEder -A'
when the digestion is not working Mother must 90
directly to the Causel}a5ys food. We VINO axe
o,d and strong and seasoned know what ills folio"
IN t,,, trail of indigestion. How we should syihpa-
thiza with a tender baby, whose suferings we can
alleviate by just righting the system OF feedne:
If the food does moi agree with Baby, ne may Nc
munv or oyer-fat; he may be droWsy ana hstiess I"
fretful and restless: he may be Out Or posoltio III
his measure :nents or he may have a rash'
Here are some of the things saw and heard at
tho petter nales Contests AS I told you in the
last article babies examined at contests Dy pay u
clans for physical proportions strength cohdltoh u
muscle skin digestive and respiratory organs t'0
senses and intelligence mental deVelop'heht' All
attractive eghteen!nonlsold was undergoing l1e
n,vsca test when the physicians discovered u EaS!
on it's abdomen. They penazed the chile f'f 'A'1'
rash and the mother protested. %:
"Why' she cried, "Eaby has always mad tAa'
rash It's sort of brth-mark
NO" answered the physician, its symptom "
too rich food You are either oVerfeeding this DahS
or giving him food that is too heavy, milk that IS toe
rich for him to digest .ne
And they went into the question OF baDy S ole
then and there Mothers first practical lesson II
Babyoogy.
y, Again a mother presented delicate doll-ilk
baby girl for examination, perfectly proportionca, "a
under-weight, under-heght for its age. Exquisite a
to silken curls and rose-petal cheeks, Baby leahe
Il YEARLY against mother, watching the doctors lar
gudlv from eyes around which there were e1"e cl'
Il cles Think of that! Blue circles around the eye
{ Of baby that had not yet celebrated its first brit
y day! ~
~ It did not take the doctors long to anayze taa
baly's trouble and to introduce Mother to her chlla
- true condition. ~
lie "Mrs. s." said the doctor, you are star'ih
'e that baby
le The mother was shocked and hurt.
n 81 nurse her every three hours" she protested
s. "No doubt" answered the doctors, but Your ln!l
st is not nourishlng her Perhaps you are not s'on
g. enough Perhaps your baby should nave botA u
OF breast and modified milk We will find out
is They did, That mother learned that her bal
h was drifting toward the dangerous rock of anenl
~ Her lesson in Labyology how to alternate Il
breast milk with bottle feeding OF modified milk.
us third baby was what you would call Il "fat boy
lily He was covered with the most "patabe crease
and his complexion was blooming, but he ha such
;" scow on his round face and Ae showed eVeryth11
by and everybody away from him as if the entire %oi
us were distasteful Mother said he had never "een
H. really eood,natured' baby, and she didn't Know WI
1t Bu+ the doctors found out. The plump stomach.
1t which his mother SO proud not an indicati
of health but of undigested, unassini!ated food oE
'at feeding.
'ks At sixteen months a baby's head, chest and al
es' men should fpsasuef =iust the same, is Il inch
This poor little laddie had an eishteeninch head
rseeventeer-inch chest and an abdomen measure
lta 1872 And just by exploring With his flnger,
aye doctor found ugly little mass Of undigested II
down in one corner Of that bullying abdomen:
course. Baby wanted to-. shove: people away. So