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Take him to any convenient doctor.

you do he'll soon learn To cry every
time he's fed-this Is technically known
as a vicious circle and 1t Is sure to get
your goat.
Precision demands that tests for ciii-
cheney shall be applied in the absence of
the baby's mother, as there seems To be
some antipathetic cmanation from a
baby's mother that impairs the accuracy
of the observations.
Lung capacity Is the easiest to deter
mine. You simply pinch the baby and
wait. He'll probably look surprised, but
he won't say anything at first. You
keep smiling amiably and pinch him
again. This time he'll open his trap
door and bawl you out in vigorous
Portuguese. and while he Is thus ex-
pressing his opinion of your conduct
you attach a lever arm to his chest by
! means of a bath robe cord and note the
| l,llogram- meters of energy registered on
the revolving surface Of "A smoked drum.
An excellent idea of the haby's circu-
latory capacity may he obtained in a
similar way. as doctors do In practice.
Thus, just as the baby finishes one yowl
and before he has time to fill up for
another you pinch him once. He will
turn red. white and blue in order.
Should the white, or still worse the blue
come up before the red. he ism much
of a baby.
Muscular development is gagged 10y
cndeavoring to take his bottle away
/ from him while he's using 1t. If he
| let's go and screams like "A wounded
/ coyote it's sign his mother is com
ing right In and you'd better be care
full. II he hangs on for dear life and
D 1T l.. 1 4.
names his muscles are doing as well
as could be expected under the circum-
stances.
At months n normal baby should
be able to knock over flower pots and
pull hair out of the family cat. At ,
months the American born child shoult
be able to hold his dinner against hcav,
odds and cuss anybody who tries {,
steal it on him. At months he car
hold his breath half an hour or such 9
matter on a stretch aud still come to
At IL to Is months NJ holds the entir,
household and "A good share of tn,
neighborhood in complete subsection {,
his royal will. and soon thereafter yul
! will see him strutting down the stree
with silk socks and cane and hi,
| lower lip glued to a mOnogrlmmcd Gig
| arctic
And now At last We are in "A position
10 form a fair conception Of "A babyi
mental capacity. Moruns are so FIRE
uucnt In the papers these days that ON
should know how To detect mental de
reefs early in life and so ward off scri
Gus results
The psychic reactions in infancy ar
really very complicated, but some Of tn
more elementary tests may he made b.
any Intelligent operator who has NJ
knship with the childs family. \ hab,
may be cross. mean in disposition, self
ish, impolite, dishonest. cruel, uniid
and disrcspcctful, yet his unclcs an,
aunts and rclatiOns-in-law will invari
ably declare he is a model Of all IN
Nrtues-that is, when they're talking
with outsiders.
In conversation with his parents the.
are most delightfully."- frank and open, il
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yourself to show the baby you're in
earnestly -"um. daddy like 1t. see!"-
(swallow a little more whenever he looks
at you)-"um, UNI. Doodums. want some
q daddy's nice pretty pretty stuff?"
BY keeping on patiently in this way,
downing a nip or two Of the candy -medy
between encouraging comments. you'll
fetch him by and by never fear. and
IL will do you worlds of good to see the
little precious fighting for his share.
During the half hour 1t takes you to
do this the baby's mother has been try
ing to bury her head in a pillow on the
couch In the other room. You will now
insist that she come out and behave
herself and take the obstinate little ras-
cal and go give him n bath at once.
for he will certainly need 1t. She will
take him with some show of emotion
peculiar to i'll used mothers. clasp him
passionately To her breast brush the
hot tears away from her eyes and the
overflow Of oil from the baby's, utter
some incoherent remarks that sound
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fact they are apt to detect serious faults
which the parents altogether overlook.
At home the baby may he q little tarta:
from Tartarsvi!c: to all outsiders he's
little darling. This Is family pride.
Relations. then. are incompetent to
make psychologist examinations of the
baby because Of their biased views.
And parents are not to he depended on
at all. Strangers alone can satlsfac-
torily perform these tests.
The most practical test of a child's
mentality IL this: Dress him up like a
young nabUb and take him to any con-
venient photographer who has a work.
ing knowledge of the art of pantomme.
If the baby laughs and COOS just too
cute for anything while the artist Is
playing hide and seek behind the funny
box with the bright eye in IL and then
breaks out and cndcavors to raise the
roof just as you get him nicely posed
his mentality Is 99.ii per cent. normal.
The oftcner h" repeats this performance
the prouder his parents should feel. A
baby that sits smilingly for his picture.
as you or ! would. and knows you're
trying to take it should be placed under
the care of good brain specialist with
out delay.
At bedtime read the baby a few fairy
tales from Grimm or other classic
source. If he wakes with night tcrrors
and sees bchcaded princesscs and ter
rible giants and queer dwarfs in his
sleep he Is perfectly normal, though he
won't stay so If you keep on with your
Grimm business. There Is nothing so
cffcctual as freak fairy tales to spoil
good child. Nature stories or actual
rccitals of simple childish events are OF
course dangerous for young people.
The more you investigate babies the
more cnthralinG does the study become.
II isn't so much n question Of how to
get along with a baby after all. The
real problem which d"fies solution is.
How can anybody get along without
one?
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Fallon left for the same reason as
lianardin. lie was in his eleventh year
of good service, but had he remained the
civil officers would have arrested him,
and il seemed probable that he would
get into very serious trouble. \ soldier
Is afraid of the civil law and VIII flee
from it much more readily than from
military law. There seems To rNis,
belief, IA superstition, that soldier can
not get justice before civil court
Horncr left II short time after he be-
came recruit because he could not get
a furlough. lie wasn't homesick nor
anything Of that sort. lie was bump
tious recruit who saw older men getting
furloughs and insisted that he was en-
titled to one also. lie was as good as
they, he said, even II they had been liz
the army fifteen years. lie took his
furlough without official consent and re-
manned away So long that he was con-
sidcrcd n d"scrtcr.
For n soldier To- go without leave and
remain away from his command more
than ten days is an act OF desertlon.
liorncr was gone nearly month"; and
upon his return boastcd that he had had
his furlough anyway IL said the com
pany thought he was an idiot. which
was true. and that ne had taken month
off Ia show that he wasn't anybodys
fool
Hamilton was n fOrgcr. He was a
stupid fellow also. and enlisted within
"A mile Of whore he committed the crime.
Then when clvll officers got after him
he deserted and was capt rcd a month
later within twenty miles Of the army
post, whore he was ploughing in field
with his dress uniform on. lie had d.
serted for no other reason than to es-
cape the consequences Of his crime
II Will be seen that not one Of these
men deserted because he had to shine an
officers shoes or sabre, because Of poor
food. hccausc he had to walk on the
| marches while his officers rode or be-
| cause of any Of the thousand and one
reasons 80 often assigned
| honestly believe. from my eXperi-
| cncc. that most Of the 300 men who
have been deserving each year did so
| because of personal reasons and not b.
| cause rules and regulations and officers
| were dlsagreeable and unjust and drove
| them 10 It, ! believe that the nine men
| ! mention are hut little out of the usual
] among dcscrters,
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spasms by the frightful antics of his
first attendants, To say nothing at all
Of the grimaces of uncles. aunis, grand
parents. nurses and friends.
incidentally ho.erlng develops the
baby's lun,s, trachea, larynX. dia-
phragm, aortic arch and stomach. II
serves also to improve the hearing Of
elderly people 10y causing a gentle tonic
vibration of the ear drums. Moreover
it keeps you from forgetting there's a
baby in the nelghborhood. Indeed one
might go on for whole pages telling
why II Is good for baby tn exercise his
noise making organs.
So let the baby holler all he likes. II
does him good and it does everybody
else good. Who'd care for a baby that
never hollers?
Despite the cost Of living, every par
ent Is more or less ambitious to have
his baby wax fat like a young shoat.
Fat in human beings generally Is
deemed abnormal, unkempt, unfortu-
nate: but a great, obese, fiabby baby
Is a JOY forever--or until he gets old
enough to wear pants or corsets.
Condensed milk is cheap, free from
fat. and well fortified with cane su~ar.
" III llil anu tduSfS llthflS,
scurvy and anemia. 1t IL easily d-
gested, and still more easily prepared
All you have to do Is dump some from
the tin can add water and palm 1t of
on the innocent baby 1t will make
him fat-so you don't care II he is a
bit rickety or pasty In color.
Market milk contains all the microbes
that go to make life exciting for a
al. q a.,
clean, and usually comes from the high
est grade daires, whore Jersey cows
only are kept Babies are quite con
tent with it for a while at least. After
that-well, there are scores of highly
recommended baby foods you can try.
But certified milk will have to suffice
| for those who are unduly prejudiced
against disease microbes In the baby's
| food In many instances babies fed on
nothing whatever but plain certified
milk have actually won the gold medal
| in baby contests, and that against com
pettors who had been brought up on
condensed, predigested medicated Oh
sterlliZed foods.
The one baby food that has proved
| superior In every test Is old DR.
| Natures Peerless Baby Builder. Tn,
really irrefutable argument in favor OF
DR., Natures brand is that parents who
use it never have to suffer with colo
| feet nights trying To figure out the
charades prescribed by baby specialists
Authorities differ about the proper
diet for older children. Bland soups
barley water orange marmalade oat'
meal cruel. zwiebach, cod liver oil ant
mutton chops all have their advocates
! Personally We like chocolate caramell
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never, never inhict such punishment on
the child again so long as you live
and I'm this vow you will be displaying
the first indication of common sense you
have displayed all evening. for If there
Is one uniustlfable punishment n
parent can inlliCt on n helpless child.
sick or well. 1t Is that same supcrnuous,
nauseous. abhorrent relic of the dark
ages, castor oil.
At birth baby H. practically blind
that IL. while he readily distng FISHES
light from darkness he does not sense
what he secs. AS doctors express 1t. he
hasn't the power Of visual accommodate
ton. Which is fortunate else he would
get dreadful first impression of the
inhabitants OF This world.
Being to all purposes sightloss. the
baby naturally hollers whenever he feels
the sudden contact Of water on his
tender skin. He hollers for help. We
al hollcr when we're scared. If the new
baby had perfect vision he wouldn't
object TO his bath, but he'd lie sent into
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cone booth and aftcrward he knew no
rest.
Bosthclm left. first. because he wasn't
Il native of the United States and had
no particular love for it, and second, be-
cause his Mexican inamorata persuaded
him to accompany her To Mexico. He
deserted twice. for he came back the
first time to escape u Mexican Jail. He
had hired to an Englshman as an inter-
prefer and skipped when he got his
hands on a small SUM of money, The
Mexican authorities made the country
so warm that he went To- border TOWN.
and surrendered.
when a general court-maritial cried
him for dcscrtinl H." pretended that he
scarcely understood English and en-
planned that he had returned To the
fatherland ON. business. To prove this
he showed n passport secured ut lIavre.
He was cleared and the next day he told
me he had faxed an old passport.
Within SIX months h" went over the
hill again al a different place ON the Rio
Grande with the same lnamorata.'
Bower committed IA crime, but was
not arrested Immediately afterward, and
in the interval between tn" time he
knew he was found out and the time of
an order for his arrest he skipped out.
simon was a thief \ thief Is safer
as far as his liberty Is concerned, any
where ON the outside than in The army.
Theft Is n big crime in the service, even
II a man takes only a comrades pen
knife. Simon stole two or three hun.
dred dollars worth of shoes and hlan-
kets and peddlcd them to fences. When
he was found out he made a clever get
away before he could he arrested and
went 10 join some friends sojournng
permanently on McXlco's east coast.
Banardin was n splendid soldier, and
when he came to our company he had
three excellent" discharges To his
credit. He was a refined man whom hi.
comrades respected Almost before h
warmed his bunk he was gone, and his
going was a mystery for long time
He had drawn new garments, and thcs,
| were turned back to the quart"rmaster
1t happened that another man VIII,
came to the company received thcs,
same garments on another issue OF
| clothing and found in a pocket letter
to Banardln. II showed that he haf
| been in trouble with "A r'rl ana hcl
parents.
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Japanese Etiquette of Dying

Q tREI.Y there never was more
- grim journey made than that Of
the Dowager Empress of Japan
when she came for the last time to
Toxic.
She had died in her palace in the
country. But the Japanese hold that a
member of the imperial family can die
nowhere except in Toxic. Therefore
the dead Empress. theoretically still
alive, journcycd from her country place
tn the palace in rokio with all the
ceremonial that attended her movements
when living.
She travelled in the royal railway cal
aud was driven through the streets To
the palace in "A court carriage, with the
blinds closely drawn. The Ministers and
high State officials who greeted her on
her past arrivals in the capital were at
the station as usual and showed in no
way that on this occasion they were
meeting the corpse of the Empress.
Troops lined the streets and presented
arms AS she passed only the great
crowds in the streets, standing in silence
instead Of loudly cheering, betrayed the
fact that the imperial carriage con-
tanned "A dead woman.
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' ~Sy + s.s; :s''' s::. s'
from the regular army OF the
United States. I was a soldier three
recent years in an infantry regiment.
and 1t Is my opinion that the writer's
have been wrong. That Is also the
opinion pretty generally held in the
army.
The writer's say. and the popular
idea is, that soldiers desert because of
mistreatment at the hands of officers
and the injustice of army rules and
regulations. or nine men who deserted
from my company during my enlist
mcnt not one went over the hill" be-
cause of any reason usually enumerated
as "A cause Of desertons.
My experience convinces me that
neither army rules and regulations nor
officers are to blame for the recent an
nual average Of 3,4O0 desertions.
We of the company knew why the
nine men deserted and to rcfute In "A
small measure the unjust things said
or the army regarding deserton
shall tell why these nine men skipped
out and broke their oaths of allegiance
Real names are not used, but true
accounts are given in the following nine
instances Of dcsertion.
Barton and Carson left at different
times, but for the same reason, They
were "rawhided" out Of the service by
two or three practical jokers, or rather
men who had habit of picking on other
men.
Barton was on his second enlistment
and between en,istments he had been O
ra broader, when he returned to tn,
service he tod lurid tales Of runnint
freight trains over mountains ant
prairles. The rawhldcrs began on hin
and were evcrlastingly raising laughs
at his expense until he could stand Il
no longer and left.
Identically the same thing happened
to Carson, who had served a previous
enlistment, except that he had been q
merchant on the outside" II was dis
covered that he had run an Ice cream
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turtles with IA steel rod about six feet
long. with a hook on one end. This
they drive down into the mud. When
they strike turtle they hook 1t by the
shell and pun IL out In the Eastern
markets turtles sell for from to IL
cents a pound alive.
The turtles in 1,eX's team are 50 old
that their backs are all cOJered with
moss The largest two are both males
and are savage to all but Rex. He can
handle them as he likes and can even
stand ON their backs and let them walk
off with him. His team will soon he
turned to pasture for while. They
will be turned loose in "A pond where
they will be free to go whore they
please for a couple of months.
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Rex Bassler and his teams OF turtles.

ciatiSe of kindly treatment and bits
Of food, and soon was able to make the
turtles follow him about while they
were being held for shipment to the
East. Persuading his father 10 give
him some Of the largest. he finally
grouped them for IA driving team, and
they seem to enjoy the sport as much
as he likes to ride behind them.
In the fall of the year the turtles
90 into the mud for the winter. About
September 10 j. S. Bassler and his son
start out with wagon, team OF
horses and two tents. for trip OF two
or three months. hunting turtles and
pearls. They hunt through southern
Minnesota. northern Iowa and northern
and central Illinois. They hunt the
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n IN BASSLER, a youngster OF b,
X living at Darien. Wis, has prob
ably the strangest driving team
n the world-a team of eight
snap ne turtles, weighing about thirty
pod .'- each and from fifty to seventy
nv years old Rex has tanned these
~'' HrrS, which naturally are savage,
am hey draw him in his express
Wa 40 Like ponies driven by other chill
dr,n
I' luungstcr learned that turtles
''u" ID" tanned while watching his
lall Max Bassler, catching turtles
Tor b" New York and Philadelphia
markets.. He found they were appre-
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and peanut brittle. though each infant
is a law unto his parents in this matter.
Whatever YOU feed your baby, have
II regular feeding schedule, say Tues
days and Thursdays from 3 to 8, and
don't feed him every time he cries. II
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something like big brutal inhuman
coward" and carry the sobbing child
off tn bed
You will then smoke a silent. rumina-
tive pipe and vow fervently to your
self that no matter what happens you'll
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-05-05
SPRING TONIC BLOOD PURIFIER-IT GREAT
YOU CAN'T EoUM. QUAKER EXTRACT, THAT'S SURE WHEN IT COMES RIGHT
DOWN TO WHAT IS REALLY THE VERY BEST.

Tho chief reason OusKtr FISHER L.
selling the people co. NhsrfInr 600
many bottles Of quaker Uorh Ex.
tract is because th.y rrpii.. that DO
o. ono of The finest ton rs thcy can
EFf for Tho Spring ~ tho year. % haa
glWHyH been an exceptionally good
blood purifier. and reerva. addition.
al credit for containing o. un-i.i Two
germ and worm Destroyer. TO chat
rhtic u be- n"iug taken hy either
adult Or child. 10 VII pass any tuch
harmful huccilln from thr aysfrm
wonderfully quick
Nearly oycrVCne tukFa 1 remedy
Tor the uUhIf INK of thci- blood
stream ~ this time 20 The year. TIsv
may be- ~rCrrrNIFf undecided as tl
D. to use Tor there are many false
claims made bv the manufacturer OF
lots 81 medicines n~owadayH. boz spitr
~ tho Pure Food and uruc Act To
Dc absolutely sure 10 got e. real toee
table remedy. nrd ono which hHe
never caused any Inconvenience or
danger while hcIuE used. YOU should
so to the Original Cut Rate Medicine
store pr iir Market street. and set
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externally. ae 70 QuIck relief FOR pain
and swrIlIuga Neurslgia and ium
haEo also rheumatic Cont. arc cured
fn The eHmr way.
Won hHVo seen many testimonials
r0ror'r hN Whrriiur and nctiairo
people also from many cities in HE
vicinity You have been asked Co
investigate them Ht your pleasure. and
O may have done eu 80 any rate.
NOu are aware OF Tho work huing done
hy these famous Quaker Remedies
lf Won have any % tho troubles for
which they are Intended YOU should
hv ali mrars get started 0n ihcir use
now. TODAY
Quaker FISHER is % tho ORIGINAL
Gun Rate t1tt Market street from
8 30 1 m ul a % no. daily. and
charges YOU nothing fo explain the
vordorful merits OF Tho Quaker Rem
rdira which he toes not offer YOU m
knows they will not helm vour
case Quaker Extract is aiy bottles
Tor 81 nl or the special trial treatment
three Tor e. so. OIL cf Ualm. no
remarkable lnmvnt. is boc a bottle
present
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some of fhc famous ouatvr Herb
Extract 90 onco % contains twelve
herbs. roots. hHrtr. efe huf SO
optafo. chemical of mineral cub tarco
az any Mind
Quaker Lstr1ct has cured rl form4
cf uOmnCh troubles. liver disorder.
aud kidney complaints Tor o. number
of years For Easfric disturbance DO
hna uo equal in any form. for Dr.
creates % lrttrr dirrsflou anil arafm.
lIHuun. so On" food can Up Distributed
io th" proper parts of tho system.
surn te nerves blood and hrHIn cells
tafHrrh has caused more TROUBLES 90
tlr digestive tract than any other
gririn tatarrh Dr. cured hV ouaker
extract. because if removes coo mu.
Cou- H0sits. heals thr irritation ON
Tho Ir.. OF The system. and
sironrth'". 90 parts Of tho ORGANISM
or fHD umH .THfem
k~hruWafiem. cnuned hy an excess
~ Ir'c Nc'f On tho hlond stream
WHICH .r1ffvre a1 fhrourh tho Joints.
uorN muscles ie easily ernfI
Gated hy n course of Quaker Extract
and thn use of the great Ofl of Balm
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HOW YOU MAY THROW
AWAY x0|lR GLASSES

The statement n made that thou
sands wear eyeglasses who do not
really need them. II you are m OF
these unfortunates. then these glasses
may be running your eyes instead OF
helping them. Thousands who wear
these windows" may prove for them
selves that they a dispense with
glasses II they will get the following
prescription filled at once: Go to any
active drug store and get a bottle OF
DIPLOMA. MI n two-ounce bottle with
warm water and drop in one DIPLOMA
tablet With this harmless liquid solu-
battle the eyes two or -four times
daily. and you are likely TO be aston
ished at the results right from the
start Many who have been told that
they have ~astigmatism, eye-strain,
cataract. ore eyelids. weak eyes. con-
ju~nctivitis and other eve disorders. re-
port wonderful benefits from the use
of this prescription. Get this prescrip-
ton hlled and use H.. you may so
strengthen your eyes that glasses
will not be necessary. Thousands
who are blind. or nearly SO. or who
wear glasses would never have re-
quired them IL they had cared for
their eyes in time. Save your eyes
before II Is too late, DO not become
oen OF these victims OF neglect Eye
glasses are only like cruthches and
every Few years they must be- changed
70 nj the everincreasing weakened
condition. so better see 10 you can.
IKE many others. get clear. healthy,
irons magnetic eyes through the pre-
scritpion here given--Adv.