The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-12-24
WHAT KIND OF
BABY HAVE YOU?
YOU MAY BE VERY PROUD OF
HER OR HIM, BUT DO THEY
COME UP TO THE STANDARD?

NEW Yesterday afternoon
Miss L. P. Knowlton, the District
Nurse, held another clinic in the Ii
brary rooms Miss Jane Whitelow,
| the District Nurse of Lambertvllle,
was present in assistance to Miss
Knowlton.
Those present with their babies
were Mrs. John F. Folinsbee, Mrs.
! George Allen, Mrs. Harry Haas, Mrs.
Miles Delaney, Mrs. Henry McDon-
nell, Mrs. Herbert Hagar, Mrs.
Striker Beaumont and Mrs. Stephen
Plichter.
1t was new experience for me.
t like babies-when they don't cry and
! don't have colds. And when | went
I into the library to get some news of
the clinic l was rather in a panic. /
didn't know what might be said that
a cross newspaper man should not
hear. And when | saw the white scales
on the table decided they were going
to weigh the kiddies in their birth
day suits.
Now know that some mothers are
rather chary about undressing their
babies before strange men, and ! felt
LUZ WIKI l.
tried to get my information from
Doctor Scott, and get out, he insisted
that | sit down and make myself at
home. There was nothing else to do,
and SO | sat down.
After | got settled and got up nerve
enough to look about me | spled one
cute little youngster eying me Won
deringly over the top of a chair. l
screwed up my face in a grimace try
ing to amuse the kiddie, but to my
| horror it scared the poor little tot,
and for moment | thought it was
going to burst into tears. ! knew II
it did l might have to answer to its
mother for "disturbing the peace"
Then | found another sweet little
thing making eyes at me. so got
rather bold and made eyes back at It.
firted outrageously with that little
| tot. | was having such success L pc.
gan to feel like regular "lady killer"
Then when it had squirmed- around
bit / found to my disappointment that
it was boy.
Why / saw by its clothes, of
DR.. ]. E. Scott, who contributes
his services free to this clinic, made
short talk that bristled with good
advice for mothers. Consider some OF
these:
"The place for the baby and the
babv's mother is at home. Especially
in the summer the child should be
kept where the air. milk, water, bed
and conditions are the same,
"Many children are ruined by kind
ness. Do not indulge your children
foolishly. When a child cries IN the
night for ice water, and refuses to
drink the water you have provided at
the bedside, don't get up and tramp
around the house in bare feet to get
ice water"
"Manage your child when it is four
years old, and you'll be able to man.
age it when it is fourteen or twenty
four"
"Use pine single when persua-
sion fails"
The water" advice reminded me
Of the story of the child who cried for
water several times during the night.
Each time the father got up oblig-
ingly and gave it the water. But the
kiddie couldn't sleep, and SO kept ask
ing for water to pass the time.
Finally the father refused to get up
again. He told the child if he MUST
have water to get up and get it for
himself. The child finally got up and
| secured the water and started with 1t
backs.to the bed AS he felt along
.hru the dark his father heard him
mutter: "Hope l spills ev'y dwam
dwop Nv it,"
"Do not sleep in the same bed with
vour child" was another Injunction of
DR.. Scott. at is unhealthy"
"Put your children to bet at
o'clock. The child grows and de-
velops more during sleep than at any
other time"
"After your baby's teeth come,
| clean them after every meal. Carry
them once each year to the dentist"
Bath your babies daily A story
is told of a child who was sent home
from school out in Western Pennsyl-
vania with note from the teacher
who said to the mother: ''Please bath
your child He does not smell good"
The mother wrote back: 81 don't see
how / can. l have sewed the winter
underwear on"
1t reminded me of the story of the
slum worker who was doing some
social work in an unsanitary family.
She said that she washed one of the
youngsters for fifteen minutes, and
that at the end of that time she came
to union suit
The best thing DR.. Scott said was:
"Use suggestion on your children.
Never say Don't do this, or don't
do that" When you do you suggest
that thing to the child and it is sure
to do it. Instead tell it positively
what it should do, and the suggestion
will act upon the mind of the child.
For instance, man kept telling his
child Don't walk on the grass" The
child continued it. Then the father
thought perhaps it would be better to
use the positive suggestion. So he
said instead: walk on the brick"
And the child obeyed.
Up to this time there has been no
movement to undress the little kid
dies, and so when DR.. Scott started
| out | decided it was the cue for my