The Washington herald., 1916-04-18
HERALD PRIZES
PLEASE GIRLS
Watches and Bracelets Easily
Won by Essays on
Baby's Care,
INFANT FEEDING TREATED
Sarahs Letter Today Should Be
Read by All Entering Better
Baby" Contest.
INFANT FEEDING TREATED

Public school girls from all parts of
the city, and all sizes. flocked down
town after school yesterday afternoon TO
see the prizes for the winners Of The
Washington Herald better baby ESSAY
contest, an exhibition in the window of
Charles Schwartz and Son. jewelers., 7os
Seventh street northwest.
The two handsome gold watches. one
Tor the first prize in the graded schools
eho the otner Tor first prize in the r-xh
girls. e'0
How nice that watch would look
pinned on my new Easter dress" one
girl nurmured. as she gazed into tha
Window. She went home with her mind
made up to write the best essay she could
on How to Care for Baby" The two
gold bracelets second prize, attracted
those who did not feel SO confident Of
their ability to write the best essay.
The Schwartz firm, one of the oldest
and most reliable in the city, will put
your name on the watch or bracelet YOU
saw In the window yesterday II
you win one OF the four prizes
But you should wait until next
week to start your essay for every day
THIS week you will find in The Herald
snort story that will tell you all about
oaoy. You have until May TO send your
essay to The Herald once.
roo Babies Die Needle..Iy.
The Herald wants every school girl to
write an essay, not to win the first or
second prize, but to learn How to Care
for Baby More than 100 babies died in
Washington last year because their
mothers did NOT know how to care for
babies.
Now, read below the third short story
from Sarah" the city mother. to
Irene" the country mother. on How
to Feed Baby"
My dear Irene: From many points
Of Wow, the most difficult part of all Is
the feeding question. Let Us begin with
the natural food, which Is the best food
and indeed the only food for a very
young baby. No one knows that better
than do with my most bitter expert
ence- Statistics show US that a baby
that is naturally fed has a great many
more chances of living than a bottle
baby and IL is also true that there is
much less chance OF becoming III. Know
ing this. am drinking a quart Of milk a
day and am thus enabled to give my
bH BY just the food she needs. How 1
wish I might have known about these
different aids with my other babies! ri
arm on a regular schedule, nursing every
forr hours, five times a day. At the sec
end feeding, before nursing, I give her
G cal with plain, whole cows milk
This is because she is getting so big and
needs other food BY one year she is to
b" wcaned; her most critical period of
lie will be past, I presume you are
feeding your boy every three hours,
since one usually begins that way right
after birth.
Difficulties of Bottle Feeding.
II hardly know what to say to you
about cows milk and bottle feeding. r
associate them with hard work and
much anxiety. You do not have any dif-
ricuities about the milk because you can
get 1t so fresh and your dairy conditions
are 80 good, but here in the city we have
to be most careful. So much of the milk
is not at all satisfactory for wee babies
stomachs. The Health Department ex-
amines milk from all dairies in the city
and gives them a mark, Just as school
children are rated for work. These
marks are open to the public, so there
is no excuse for buying a poor grade
of milk for ones baby.
Probably the next most important
thing after getting a good milk is
keeping II good. Letting II stand on
the kitchen table for half an hour be-
fore modifying # is very unsafe. 1t
should be kept in the ice box. Also it
should go back to the ice box just as
quickly you can get 1t mixed and
into the Individual bottles. Therefore,
nothing hot should be added to It.
The water should be boiled and allowed
to cool before being used, or, IL barley
water is used, IL should be made the
night before or at least in time to be
as cold as the milk. All this prevents
the growth OF germs which may cause
a baby's illness.
Natural Nourishment Far Better.
Then, too, the bottles must be
washed and boiled and then kept ster-
lie until they are to be used. This can
be done by leaving them filed with
the water in which they are boiled
and stoppered with sterile absorbent
cotton.
"All these things are an infinite
amount of trouble. 1t shows how much
easier 1t Is to give a baby its proper
food Just compare the two ways
for minute! With bottle feeding
one has to have bottles (and clean bot
tles), nipples, (clean nipples), milk
(clean MILK, lime water, milk sugar,
ice, bottle brushes. several sterile
utensils for modifying, and other ac-
cessories. Not one OF these is needed
in breast feeding. There isn't any
question which we prefer Just from
convsnience's standpoint, to say moth
ing Of the health standpoint of our
babies.
your frisnd