Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

/ My little 10-year old girl has got
ten so she won't mind" writes Mrs,
| l.. Q. ID. she forgets what / tell
| her to do the minute after l tell
! her. She is strong and healthy, and
| I keep her home always, and she goes
out only when l do. l have been
nice and | have tried Furnishing her,
and nothing does any good Win
you please give me some help?"
The little girl, for her own good,
ought to play with other children.
That is one mistake you are making.
If she did get away from home some
| times, she would undoubtedly be
| happier and better tempered child,
and therefore willing to help you
when you asked her to.
| 1t is better to say nothing to her
about not minding, but when she fails
to heed you you may afterward
without meanness. deprive her or
some amusement which may mean
something to her. If it is question
of household tasks, it is often the
fault of the mother that a child fails
to heed her requests.
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definite duties to perform each day,
and she will take the responsibility
of them, but to keep a child forever
running hither and thither at the be
hest of busy mother is an injustice
to the child, and it is no wonder that
she rebels openly or else resorts to
the next method of disregarding the
mother altogether.
Also remember when you are ask
| ing the child to do anything for you
that if it is outside her regular tasks
you are asking a favor. Treat her as
YOU would an older person of whom
YOU might ask a similar service, and
YOU will find that you will get the
same kind of response. Politeness is
an asset that is used far too little in
most households, mother depending
on peremptory commands, followed by
threats and punishment, instead of
treating the child like responsible
individual
Suggestions for disciplining the in
FAINT and young child are included in
a discussion of "A Number of Puzzling
Problems This leafiet will be mailed
to any reader upon receipt of self
addressed, stamped envelope, accom-
panied by a request for this article of
Myrtle Meyer Eldred series.
No one needs to be told what vac
cination is for. We all know that not
so many years ago smallpox was one
of the scourges of the earth, and that
| it's very name was as terrifying as
| that of the black plague. Because
| one man noticed that millmaids and
men developed a milk disease which
resembled smallpox, but was not fatal
and inoculated persons with cowpoX,
! we have come to regard the disease
with euuanimity. But if we were to
| go for years, unvaccinated, smallpox
/ would be again the frightful disease
| it once was.
Vaccine is a sterilized product which
| has been drawn from a horse which
| has recovered from the disease. The
| body's natural resistance to the dis
ease is strengthened by these extra
| anti-bodies, which the horse has pro
| duced in his successful fight.
| The child may be vaccinated as
early as the eighth or ninth month If
| there is need of it. Summer time Is
not q good time for vaccination. nor
should it be done when there are bois
or other skin diseases which result in
formations of pus. Spring or Fan
may be chosen, or if the child is not
in danger of being with any person
who is ill., the vaccination may be put
off until he is or 3 years old.
There is seldom any bad effect OF
vaccination if care is taken to keep
the secretions from the sore away
from other areas of the skin. The
wound should be properly covered and
kept from any danger of being In
fected or of spreading infection until
it, like any other sore, has become
| healed.
Children who have gone unvac.
cinated until school time has arrived
should have this done before entering
| school It is only by such methods
that we prevent dangerous epidemics
| OF the disease.