The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-06
KANSAS BABY WEEK


lance of play in the life of the young
tonight. in addition to the regular
features of the show, a tuberculosis
film will be shown. Another HIN
dedicated to Sanitary Sergeant Ram
Gov on the DEVELOPMENT of the fly will
be shown
DIR. c. B. Van Horn, of Topeka, con
tributed a gem of advice to the pis
meeting this afternoon. his speech
short but well delivered and prepared
contained a beautiful tribute to the
mother. offered awakening sugges-
lions. and solicited most compliment
tary attention from the listeners.
DR.. Van Horn is a believer in the
limited and controlled methoo OF COT
poral punishment of children. He De
Iieves that the paddle, conscientiously
and properly applied, solves many
hosehold juvenile problems
He did not discriminate between the
mother and father in the application
of the yard stick. You must start
while the child is young" he said
Let the punishment have its effect
before the boy or girl is old enough
to offer resentment. Waiting too
long only creates an upheavel in dis
cipline.''
Dr. Van Horn placed great stress on
the early home training The life of
the boy and girl after leaving the
ture age depends greatly on the child
hood days and the environment as
created by the mother and father, he
declared He traced diseases-many
of them-directly to the loose control
of children in the home.
Training and Health.
Child training in the home has as
great an effect upon preserving
health as upon instilling into the child
proper morals and thrift" DR.. c. B.
Van Horn said. Children are very
largely a reflection of their parents
and people can usually be judged by
the habits of the child. If child
is given the proper training in the
home it learns how to take care of
itself. One of the great benefactions
of military training is that soldiers
are taught how to take care of them
selves, now to preserve their own
health and how to avoid disease. Par
ents shold carry the same theme of
training into their families. Proper
training also affects the habits of the
child in regard to caring for its own
body, controlling it's own activities of
morality, and it starts the child in
life with the proper digestive function.
The control of the bodily function is
very largely merely a matter of train
ing and this cannot be developed in
the child at too early a period. Aside
from this training a child properly
trained is robust and has normal vigor.
Born Healthy Normally.
Normal children of normal par
ents are born healthy, and unless the
parents are particularly careful to
train the child, outside influences of
other associates may affect the child
to lose it's health. There are various
diseases which young children are apt
to develop which can be prevented by
a simple rule, the act of proper ma
ternal training. Some of these condi-
tons are nervous diseases, chorea and
hySteria, and other diseases range
from digestive disturbances on down
to flatfoot and other physical de-
fects. If, however, a child is abnor-
mally developed the parents must not
suppose that through their own ideas
of training the child can later be de-
veloped normally.
There is vast difference in the
effect on children by their training
and punishment. Any cause for which
children are usually punished should
be carefully investigated before any
Furnishing is done, as these defects are
usually beyond the mentality of the
child and should be corrected by train
| ing and through medical care.
DIR. Iindsay's Address.
The principal cause of nervous dis
eases in children is heredity, accord
| ing to DR.. W. S. Lindsay, who spoke
on Nervous Diseases in Children" al
/ the Kansas Baby show this afternoon
However, children, having less oppor-
tunity for acquiring nervous troubles
than adults, naturally suffer less from
| them, contends DR.. Lindsay. The To
pekan placed the fault of children's
| troubles of this sort squarely upoT
| the shoulders of the parents.
| ION analyzing the status of child
| consider its neurotic heredity and
realize that nervous troubles more
readily follow simple ailments in chill
dren having nervous ancestry. The
most common of these ailments is in
testinal irritation; from this children