Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — Feeding the Baby. [ARTICLE]

Feeding the Baby.

The care of babies Is never a sinecure, as many of our readers can testify, and the ordinary difficulties of the case sometimes assume extraordinary proportions. An English lady In India was recently worried about the failing health of her Infant The milk was suspected, and the doctor ordered that the child

be fed with asses’ milk. The lady spoke to a native officer of the district, and receiving a satisfactory reply drove with a man-servant to the station where the ass was to be in waiting. To her amazement there, tied to a post, all ready to be milked, stood a huge she bear. It seems that im the native dialect, the words ass and bear are so nearly alike as to be scarcely distinguishable in the month of a European.

A variation of the milk problem was presented to F. G. Jackson, the Arctic explorer, -when he found and adopted the Infant cub of a polar bear. There seemed no way to feed the poor little beast until Mr. Jackson hit upon the following Ingenious method: Taking a bit of sponge, he covered It with chamois leather and fastened It to a rubber tube which had previously been inserted In a bottle. Fixed into the cork of this bottle was a piece of glass tubing through which air might be blown to make the milk run freely. The cub took to the bottle like any other baby, and sucked away in most ravenous fashion, with a contented look upon her face, as If the last of her troubles were ended.