Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — TO KEEP BABIES QUIET. [ARTICLE]

TO KEEP BABIES QUIET.

Peculiar Treatment of Infants in the Himalaya Mountains. That humanity can bear anything to which it is accustomed in early life is proved by the selection of sleeping places for their children by the native women living on the slopes of the Himalaya mountains. They are obliged to work in the fields for the greater part of the day, and have lighted upon this extraordinary expedient for keeping their children quiet whilst they are away from home- Before going to work in the morning they wrap theirinfantscompletely with bandages, leaving only the face exposed. Then they place them under a ledge of rock from which water is dripping. By mean* of a bamboo rod a tiny stream of water is made to fall on the baby’* forehead. The dripping of the water seems to have a lulling effect upon th* children, for they drop asleep almost immediately, and remain motionlea* until the mother* return. Then they are unwrapped, dried, and fed. The native*, Bay* Golden Day*, declare thi* aystem to be most beneficial to the child’s health, and, oddly enough, very few of thamauccumb to the treat* ment, growing up, for the most part/ into atropg, healthy men and women.