Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — Starting the Baby Right. [ARTICLE]

Starting the Baby Right.

There are various methods of as* suring good luck to an infant In rural England, if its right hand is bound up tar a short period soon after birth it will surely become wealthy. The Spaniards sweep their children’s

faces with pine boughs to assure good fortune, while to keep the Irish baby from harm a belt, of woman’s hair is placed about it. and to achieve a similar object Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons around the ankles of their offspring. In Holland garlic, salt, bread and steak are put in the cradle of the new arrival, while tb protect their babies the mothers at Wales put In their cradles a pair of tongs or a knife. In Iceland, when the first tooth makes Its appearance, a lamb is presented to the rhUrt to be its **werv own."