The Washington times., 1922-04-03
Fine Baby s Freckled
Mother

YOUR CHILDREN.
There is foolish tendency to make light of coughs
and colds 1t is tendency dangerous as we'll as foolish
for than half of all deaths due to colds directly
or indirectly.
series of colds will weaken the system, lower vitality
and open the way for diseases of all kinds In addition
to that the cold is the beginning of consumption very
often, and you know that consumption death to
than two hundred thousand people in the United
States every year.
thin young got into the street car carrying in
her arms a heavy, fat beautiful baby. sudden moving
Of the overbaanced the tired young mother but for
unaey two three Of the passengers caught her and
the baby and dropped them safely into seat.
Then the other human beings studied sympatheticay
and affectionaely the earnest young with her
whole mind the heavy red checked good natured baby
less than year DID, The mothers face reproduced
in that of the child But the mothers face tired
anxious Her body thin. Her face, covered with
reckes told that she had been wisely staying out in the
air with that wonderful baby 1t evident that all
thoughts and energies devoted the child that
held in its doll, of itself enough Of load for the
fra mother.
The serious mistake which this mother made-and
which thousands make every day-was this
She had cold she was nervous and self-conscious
And when she coughed she turned her head downward
from the passengers and coughed in the direction
of her baby on her lap
AS consequence is absolutely certain that the child
unless its vitality is proof against everything, WILL
CATCH THAT MOTHERS COLD AND SUFFER
FROM 1T.
How often have you seen women do this they carry
children turning their heads downward in coughing and
running the risk of giving to their children cold that
may be dangerous-even fatal
mother with severe cold should protect her child
against that cold she would against smallpox. If
loft a should isolated
from the Others and should be made to understand
fully the danger from colds and the way to avoid catch
ing them.
| You know that the cold is caused by germ which
lodges the surface of the membrane in the
the throat further down in the lungs the pas
sages leading to them.
Coughing and sneezing represent NATURES Eff
FORT TO GET RID OF THESE GERMS. With every
coughing fit the germs expelled great numbers
And nothing is dangerous than to expose young
. children to contamination from such a
1t has been shown that public speaker with bad
cold infect people thirty feet away from the platform
One individual coughing careessy side of car
can easily give cold to all the people the opposite
seats
Of course in our ignorant kind of civilization we are
all of us exposed to all sorts of diseases constantly
But -mothers-should realize the danger of
colds to their children and protect them from themselves
and from others
No mother if she had smallpox would go near child
She should be just careful of any cold she would of
smallpox.
This is the time of the year when colds fasten them
selves upon the system and last for long time. 1t is
the time of the year when foolish sudden changes of
clothing expose young and old to chs and all their bad
results.
reckled young mother with the big fine baby will see
this advice and take it in good part-and that many
other mothers will do the same