Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-11-02
TWO BABIES ON A BOAT.

The scene: y boat travelling to South
!Iisver, Mich f:oui Chicago. I'll, time.
4 hot day about August 4.
In cnr group was ii 6 months old
baby. his Imcthet, ana II Earty of friends.
Ina buby VAS brea:-t led. Ee sot hi4
meals by the clock. Avhen he Indicate.
q Willingness to stop tse mother en-
CourageI hin 10 DO So. The nl4t!,e:. bad
brought along d bnttls II boiled water.
RMS the baby drank 1loIh IL ,leall bottle
WITH sterilized nipp!.: WITCH VAS kept
oOEercdaw.tn a civai1 c,5tf4 n.en not IA
use. The baby has liapp. anfi seaithy'
and did not cry.
Nearby WIS a,ot,. e. party in which
were a inotaer and her BABY. Tnia
mother spoke some icreisn language.
Her baby vas bottle fed. The t.ip from
Chicago to South Haven requires fiEu
hours. During tho trip this baby gts
four bottles OF milk. While there wal
no regular fccaing zine. Ire Laby {. t
his bottle at Intervals OF ailout an tou
n u hair. RE did not ciien want the
bottle when 1t WAS oifers d. but at least
once when he refused IL his molhes'
siappcd him AMI insisted in making
him cal.
Mhell he wanted water tie mother
went to the faucet for 1t. Tie baby
fretted much of h TINE. This ba1 y
was about s months oil.
Ihe first OF these babies is reason,
ably certain to get tartu2h the hCl
season without bowel trouble. The sec.
ond is just as certain to Fave one %
more spells Of bowel trouble. He ma j,
not survive. But the reader, taking Il
SIDE OF the mother Of the bottle fej
panE, recalls scme fine, fat baby fed ca
Il Bottle who got his food every holy
and took things as they carne or may
be recalls some baby contest where
some 80 as ylu please laby got first
prize. NOT all wrongly fed babies die.
some thrive, and sol.e even win prize
IN baby shows. There must be excsp-
lions to- every ruia.
When we study the death rate among
1.o00 or more babies in each group wn
see the wisdom of the mother who feeds
her baby rightly and the unwisdom OF
the mother who feeds her baby wrong
ly.
En- 1915, IN Chicago. 20 per cent OF the
baby deaths were among the Polish
babies, although only 5 per cent Of all
Ashltago babies were Polish; la Ter
of Chicago babies had Austrian
parents. but 20 per cent of the baby
sttlt' italian babies constituted "a of TIE
population and furnished G.6 per cent
of the baby deat..s; the babies OF native
Americans constituted Sal per cent OF
the baby population II furnished
25 70 per cent of the baby deaths. The
ooofGS WfiCSC ItlOLitfIS were DDiI aDFOtlll
We're 33.9 per cent of the baby popula-
ton. and furnished ~ per cent of the
baby deaths.
This is more han an. offset to the
winning OF some prize by the baby of
sore foreign s%reaking parent.
Not all of the go as you please feed
Ing is among the foreign speaking
people. and not all of the regular, sys-
tematic. careful feeding is among the
children of the native born. Irregular
feeding and overlooking is not respon-
Sihle for all the bowel complaints in
babies.
Blu after making all allowances we
come back to the fact that a baby that
Is fed wrongly does not have a fair
SHOW for life and health. One of these
had had a chance to learn this.
Inc other a not. In the course of time
she, too, will learn the advantage of
breast feeding. the disadvantage of
bottle feeding. and the need of giving
she stomach some hours of rest between
.cejjngs.