The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-13
NOW FOR A LITTLE COLO

Street, Chicago. Ill.
 NOW FOR A LITTLE COLO
 I confess I'm not conversant with the present views of Grandma Gsdahout, Ben Told, Sairey Camp and the eminent specialist who has written the latest baby book. ir respect to infantile collie. All l know about 1t is what you will find in the chapter "Colic is a Quaint Concept" in the Brady Baby Book. This is little fifty-page syllabus, if may so call it, setting forth the fundamental facts of the baby business-knowledge every boy and girl should receive in grade school, if our Yankee educational system were not so backward and prudis1. The only way you can procure the Brad. Book is by asking me for 1t in writing, and inclosing with your request sixteen fifty and a lock of your-I mean inclosing a dime tU. S) folded in bit of paper and not all messy or inextricably bound with glue, tape. gum, staples. etc. and a stamped envelope bearing your address.
 I'm certain cutting teeth" nev.. never makes a baby ill. I know as well as I know anything in health or medicine that growing never causes growing pains" And you can order me out of your Wretchee rovel and forbid me ever to bright en your door again, if you choose to remain steeped in ignorance and but I insist that ''colic' never made a baby cry outside of the almanac and the comic supple ment.
 If that Is not clear to you, may be you can understand 1t in other words. I maintain, and I wasn't born yesterday and I didn't arrive at this opinion by divination but by years of hospital, country and city practical maintain that "colic' in infancy is any little thing that irritates, annoys or upsets the baby, and the name "colic" is ap- piled to conceal the unfitness, in- competence, ignorance, cruelty and neglect of the parent, nurse, by islanders or the doctor if the quack acquiesces in the charge.
 use the epithet "quack' advis- edly there, no matter whether Doc tor Dope-dispenser or the author of the famous book on How to Feed the Baby approves of collie
 To young parents whose educa- tion has been sadly neglected-in the public schools of Yankeeland-- I make this plea in behalf of the baby. Every healthy young infant is entitled to at least one good viz orouscry ing spell day. Give the baby fair deal! Don't feed the poor tike and medicine and don't take anything in the way of food away from the unhappy baby just because he or she crier hard for & while, draws up knees, grows red in the face - all that is perfectly normal.
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Both Sexes From One Ovary
 A while ago you told a readeS you could find no record Of a wonn- on giving birth to babies of both sexes after one of her ovaries had been removed. My wife had one ovary removed at age of T. Two years later We married Today she is the mother of girl years old and boy four months old. (J. O
 Answer-Thankyou and more than sixty other readers who kind. ly reported similar experience. Thai dsposes of the notion that one se1 from one overay, the other sea from the other ovary.
 Liberated
 For many years mym other was a slave to physic-she thought she had to have daily dose of - to regulate. However, I sent for your booklet and convinced her she should try she found it was just as you said, and she has nevs had to resort to anything since She eats her daily handful of plain wheat and likes it. (Mrs. H. w., Jr.)
 Answer That alone - eating 8 handful of plain raw wheat daily probably correct the con stipation hsbit in most instances if the poor gulliple customers only had an elementary knowledge 0. People who think they require some artificial "regulatio,i' will learn something to their ad. vantage-!f they are not too stupic to les-n--by sending ten cents ans stamped self addressed envelope fo, booklet The Consultation Habt and Colon Hygiene"
 Salt Tn Hot Weather
 You said salt should be takeh more freely in hot weather. How about eating highly saited things such as pretzels. saited peanuts, sal- tine crackers. =?
 Answer - All right. if you can handle the extra food. Simplest practice is to take a five-grain tab- let of salt, or about five grains "a good pinch) of salt with every glass Of water. This tends to prevent heat cramps and heat exhaustion. IL is more refreshing than water alone, when you are sweating freely.
 Vitanin B In Diabetes
 Please explain the value of vita- min B-complex in diabetes and it's relation to the dosage of insulin.
 L. J)
 Answer-One function of vitamin B is to promote the metabolism or of carbohydrate. The dia- betes patient supplementing the re- stricted diet with with vitamin B may find it necessary after several weeks to reduce the daily dose of insulin. Send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress, for booklet Training for Dia- oetes."
 1945 by John F. Dille Co.