The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-01-20
HOW TO BRING UP THE BABY
Gentle Hints TO Parents on the Care
and Feeding of Infants

Always tfy % nave Efanupafthl
about the place for the baby TO cut his
teeth on.
If sou cannot have q grandparcnt
the next best thing is pup, But a
pup is apt TO be Fighter and less de-
pendable than a grandparent Pups
will sometimes retaliate in kind when
bitten, but very few grandparents have
ever been detected in the act Of biting
young children.
If, however, you are at all suspicious
Of grandpa, i: is well TO remove his
false teeth before allowing him to take
the baby for the day.
Do not try to put into practice all
the advice with regard to babies that
your friends will give you, unless you
have :riplets and try a third of il on
each triplet,
Immediately upon being informed
that you are parent, the thought will
come to you, Heavens! What if do
not like this particular child at all ?
Suppose find myself with an infant
upon my hands agains: whom ] shall
feel at once a certain prejudice, an
instructive antipathy"
IT, indeed, you do not like the child,
you should, nevertheless, pretend pub
licly to like it the pretence will be-
come habitual and will sometimes in
cubate something very like a real pref
erence for ones own child as compar-
ed with the children of others.
The father of young infant should
learn to keep his temper, as sudden
outbursts are very bad for him. Do
not, for instance, during the period
when the nurse still has charge and
you are sleeping on the zinc-topped
laundry tubs in the kitchen, indulge in
fruitless fare-ups. If there seems to
be only one sock in the house, thank
God for it and put it on and sink
about your piffling business; you are
only a man anyhow.
Very young infants thrive better
upon blankets made half of cotton and
half of wool, but bits of ribbon of any
material are always palatable and, APP
parently, digestibe. One baby that
ate sleeves almost exclusively gained
ten ounces a week.
Young fathers should not let the
cares Of parenthood engross them
completely.
Try 20 keep up your music.
Then, when the neighbors object to
the baby, you can play on the piano
until they ask you if you won't please
start the baby again.
Fathers of young infants should do
a great deal of serious reading.
The best time for this is between
the hours Of a, M and a. M, as the
house is frequently quiet during that
portion Of the day,
If this encroaches too much upon
the time that would otherwise be de-
voted to sleep, divide the period, read
ing from 4 to 4:30 and sleeping from
4:3O to 5.
In the period between 4:30 and a.
m. cast all care and anxiety from you;
relax utterly; do not get up more than
FIVE or six times 20 cover the child,
look at the thermometer, or remove
from his throat portions Of his basin
cite which he will be eating as he
sumbers.
But, no matter how entirely you re-
lax during this period, hold tight to
the thought that you must not snore
it wakes the baby.
Babies will learn things from imi-
-ating their fathers thai they cannot
be persuaded to try in any other way.
While the baby is still quite young
father should spend all his afternoons
wing on his stomach across a hot wat
sr bag, kicking and cooling and smiling
while the baby is held up
% look at father. Thus baby will
grasp the idea, and at night will per-
laps, permit himself to be placed in
| similar posture and be relieved Of
,olic.
Babies can be taught in like fashion
hat stomach ache will oyertake them
f they suck paint from their toys.
Father may be placed upon a rug in
he center of the parlor floor, and baby |
20 directed by the nurse TO watch him
Then father, slowly and
so that baby can follow
very movement, eats the paint from
/ number of gaudily colored play
Kings. Immediately afterward father
atches at his stomach with his hands,
noans, draws himself up into knots,
hrieks, twists and comforts himself,
acute pain; finally being
orced to swallow malodorous medi-
ines.
Baby learns from the pretty panto-
mime that the paint from toys is not