The Washington times., 1935-01-12

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as much action going on in tt
A particularly interesting
time to watch the character
and personality of the chill
dren, as these are already de-
Veloping, is during and just
after the morning feeding Of
five ounces Of milk and cereal
1t about 9 o'clock.
At Breakfast
The babies have had a good
nights sleep and are rested.
They have had pleasant,
playful time in their bath, and
are wearing fresh, clean clothes.
Breakfast tastes good. Then
and Immediately thereafter
they feel like starting things.
They lie in state in their
cribs, and the nurse in at
tendance brings the bottle to
each in turn. The swallowing
muscles of their cheeks move
as they suck like greedy little
pigs.
Sometimes, on the other
hand, they are lazy about
breakfasting, and take the
nourishment with such long
pauSes between each mouthful
that the poor nurses patient
hand gets tired holding the
bottle.
This is likely to occur when,
with natural and excusable
zeal, she has been giving the
little scamps too much to eat
for a day or so, hoping to
bring the weight up to a
normal figure for the baby'S
chronological age.
Then I have to step in and
reduce the ration bit until
the nursers regain appetite and
take their meals enthusiastic
cally. In that mood, Cecile,
whose crib is next to Emilie'S,
will look aggrieved and wave
diminutive, but commanding
fist if her sister gets fed be-
fore her.
Developing
Marie, on the other side Of
Emile, at the end of the row,
beguiles her period of anticipa-
ton, before the bottle reaches
her, by the jolly discovery that
she has fingers.
She waves them in amazed
satisfaction before her big,
dark-blue eyes with their long,
curling lashes. Then she
threads four tiny right-hand
fingers into those on her left
hand, likes the act and gives it
q number of encores.
Emile, after breakfast, be-
gins playing with the tassels
on her bootees. She is the first
Of the children to pick up this
trick, and probably soon will
be trying to insert her big toe
into her mouth.
Yvonne trys slyly to suck her
thumb, although, whenever she
is caught at this naughty habit
her little cotton flannel dress
sleeve is pinned down firmly
over her hand so that the
thumb is placed out of bounds.
, All these movements toward
the mouth, together with the
state of the gums, show that
the quintuplets soon will be
teething, if indeed one of them
does not cut a tooth before this
article is printed. The little out
line Of the teeth-to-come can be
seen through the pink surface
. Of the gums.
= Sun Baths
: When it is too cool or stormy
Tor the children to be wheeled
, to the wide. sunny veranda,
they are moved to the Sun-bunk
as soon as they are through
breakfast.
One of the nurses has chris.
tened this wide, Soft-cuShioned,
roomy box, just deep enough so
that small babies cannot fall
over its side, the rats nest"
Here the five little girls can
lie side by side to take their
violet ray treatment on their
smooth, shapely little bodies, or
they can-and do-"act up"
with arms and legs tossing in
the air, voices jabbering or oc-
casionally whimpering, sturdy
young shoulders shifting from
side to side in a baby'S natural
caliSthenics.
Five little encores of the way
one baby would do it!
ITO be continued MondayO
Copyright. 1885, by King Features