Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. [ARTICLE]

PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.

Give Babies Water. Be sure to give the baby plenty of water—not too coldand water that has been boiled. When you are hungry you want to eat; when you are thirsty you drink. The baby wants its equal rights. But no matter whether It is hungry or thirsty it is condemned to receive the same food to satisfy both its hunger and thirst. When it cries with hunger it justly receives food from the bottle or breast; when it cries with thirst It Is given the 6 same food from the same source. Perhaps if father, mother or physician had to quench thirst with beefsteak and potatoes they would feel more sympathy toward the thirsty baby and give him what he is crying for—water. Milk is not water and will not take the place of water for thirsty babies. Water tastes just as good to the baby as It does to us—and often we say. "Ob. wasn’t that refreshing!” Remember—plenty of water for the growing baby.