The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-18
SOME BABIES HAVE WIFE

SOME BABIES HAVE WIFE
 Patsy, who played her first role in the Brady Better Baby Book at the age of three months, and has ap- peared in the Bigger Brady Better Baby Book" ct twenty-three months comes smiling through, at the age of s4 months, in the 9th edition, is- sued February, 1889, the Bigger Brady Better Baby Book.
 And don't run away with the noe ton that "well nourished" means feeding the baby e lot of sterilised pap. The infant who grows enor- mously fat on sugary food, habber- gasted or ANA-blessed substitutes for milk, strained. refined cooked.to- death cereal Yostrunns and the ike, may not develop manifest rickets, pellagra, scurvy or beriberi but can hardly develop vite on such diet either.
 I do not believe that the most lib- eral supply of vitamin o, D and B complex will assure optimal health and development unless the baby IS vouchsafed every other advantage of good sense and good hygiene, too. 1T | harp on the Importance of sup plementing the child's diet With vitamins O, D and B complex, 1t IS because I know SO many infants and older children fail to thrive and develop as well as they should, due to inadequate rations of these essen- tials in their everyday diet.
 Among the conditions various competent authors have ascribed to deficient intake of Wtamin 3 com- plex are pyloric stenosis Proficiency in the mothers intake throughout pregnancy, spastic colitis, costive. ness, poor appetite, poor tone of stomach and intestinal muscle with consequent weak digestion and ten- dency to collie, stationary or slow gain in weight and growth, chronic eczema or dermatitis tprobably duo to insufiicient ribotiavin co factor) loss of hair with dry lifeless condi- ton of the hair, brittle, ridged or pitted nails, sometimes soreness, redness, shiny smooth appearance Of tongue and soreness of lip with cracks in the skin near the corners of the mouth--these effects in skin nails, hair, lip, tongue are prob- ably due to insufiicient c lone of the several factors in the vitamin B complex).
 Insufficient vitamin 0 has been held accountable for poor immunity (''resistance') against infection, particularly diphtheria and pneu- monia, and large doses Of pure vi- tamin 0 (ascorbic acid, cevitamic acid) are now given in the treat- inent of these infections, in infants or adults, Delayed clotting time, tendency to excessive bleeding from minor injury, and small hemor- images under the skin causing black and blue spots to appear after trifiing or even no apparent injury, may be due to insufficient intake Of yitamin 0. Vagues states ranitition lack of energy, laziness and peevish- ness in school children may be due to insufficient intake of vitamin O.. Dental carries or decay of teeth, py- orrhea and simple Inflammation or soreness or tenderness Of bums are common manifestations Of lack Of vitamin 0.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Ware Pirates
 We have been buying wheat germ from c grist mill for 5 cents . pound. We use 1t mostly cooked in various recipes. But this clipping suggests that we have the wrong thing. (Mrs' P. W.)
 Answer-If you got c fresh supply every few weeks 1t is the right thing. The clipping you send appears to be an offer to sell wheat germ at an outrageous price. The pirate who uses my name to help him sell at that price is merely . pirate. No one has my consent to the use Of my name to help sell anything, and any one who does so without my know