Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — BABY’S NEEDS IN SUMMER [ARTICLE]

BABY’S NEEDS IN SUMMER

Lightness of Clothing Is One of the First Requisites During the Hot IH : Weather. IZZI__I Warm weather is a dangerous po rlod for children, And all mothers dread the summer for their little oneß. As the weather grows wanner and warmer, fewer and lighter clothes should be worn by the baby. So many mothers have a mistaken idea that flannel bands must be kept around baby's abdomen, next to the skin, no matter what the weather. The treatment is not only wrong, but actually cruel. To keep flannel next to the young sensitive skin when the weather is so hot that every turn of the little body against the fiaunßi causeß-severe-lr-rltation isalmoat barbarouß.Yet how many mothers believe in it! There are fewer each year, for which we should be grateful, but still there are left a large enough number of such deluded mothers to keep a great many babies in comparative torture during the summer time. The little body should feel nothing but the sheerest, softest materials next to it. When it is very hot the young baby may be totally undressed, except for his little shirt. During the hottest hours of the day the little one should be placed oar' a • wide l>ed° dressed in this garb, or rather lack of garb, and allowed to play or sleep