The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-06-21
MILK ALLOWANCE is
REDUCED ONE HALF
Mothers and Nurses Under Government
Control and Must Comply With
Rules; Oatmeal and Wheat
Broth are Used
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4 Germany. Editor. -
BY William q Shepherd.
United Press staff correspondent
Rotterdam. Holland May 26.-tBy
mail.) Right into the baby's cradle.
at his five daily meal times. reaches
The hand OF the great German govern
ment, in wartime
II snatches his milk bottle from him,
empties out half his milk and fills Up
tho bottle with breakfast food.
Twice day when bottle time
comes, this great hand keeps his bot
tie away from him and, with spoon
feeds him fth apple sauce. crushed
carrots and sesSed spinach
yui can't ket tho babies to talk
about It, though ssaIr mothers have a
great deal to say on the subject. But
the tact remains that the babies
thrive on their new menus and that
perhaps the baby experts of Germany
have found new and better way to
fill baby stomachs.
Here's my little muchacho, said
a Spanish lady from Germany who
had as she said, brought him out to
get him some milk. She displayed
q little fellow Of eight months.
In our town in Germany, ii the doc
tor gives you certificate. you may
have pint OF milk day for var
baby
THE doctor works with the govern
ment, you understand. and be makes
every effort to persuade mothers to
nurse their children at the breast.
III he considers THAT q mother is
able to do this, he VIII not issue
milk certificate and the mother viii
not be able to purchase milk.
Nurses also are under government
control and when they discover that
! mother Is able to nurse her baby it
s her duty to notify the doctor to
that effect and 1t then becomes his
iuty to cancel the milk ticket.
"The milk that is issued is nos
enough for baby. Of course. but the
scientists have worked out a way Of
mixing il with an oatmeal on wheat
broth This is fed from the bottle
.aree times day But Ne must have
ood two other times every day and
The scientists are busiIy instructing
physicians and nurses, who in turn
instruct mothers how to cook apples.
'arrots and spinach for the babies,
I'VE cook the apples or carrots un-
Ill soft as porridge and serve It to the
Daby with spoon. He hasn't tooth
n his head, yet but he has learned TO
sat from spoon. We put the boiled
spinach through . eeiyes
what does he like the BEST OF tbs
hreegy
Apples, because We always put
little sugar into the apple sauce. Car
,ots he likes also. but spinach He
makes faces at 1t, but when he cries
or food. he can't always be silenced
iyen with spinach
He grows fat on hla war TODD too.
Wy other children always had milk
i've times a day and as much as they
wanted. They llloft milk, as ali ba-
lies do But this bahy is learning 10
'at things that he doesn't like.
a don't like TO see him have to do
t. / feel sorry when must feed him
Ipinach Think Of it And so here
am in Holland 10 give him all the
milk he wants for time. He laughs
md COOS every time he sees the milk
,ottle coming He knows The differ
nee between milk aud carrota"
Doesn't heg~ she said. turning to
he baby He said something which
vas taken for yes