Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — NEW WAY TO RAISE BABIES. [ARTICLE]

NEW WAY TO RAISE BABIES.

Hospital Managers Have Devised nn Eminently Successful Method. Hospital methods arc adopted mory each year in the. private treatment of babies—the methods, that is to say, of the superior modern hospital conducted updpr the best medical supervision. The cradle is doomed and all its rocking memories. The child lies upon its bed and is not picked up and carried about the room even when H yells. Visitors and relatives art* no longer encouraged to pound it in the idbs, pinch its chin or transfer microbes to it.s lips. This strictness Is laughed at by rilmlil outsiders and resented by critics of the old time regime, which, like every oilier fossil, is attributed to nature, no doubt, with justice, but without relevance. Actually, tlds intelligent trchtifient of infancy is doing much to check nervousness In our children, to protect them from—find habits and needless exactions and to make them selfreliant. Babyhood, indeed, is the best conducted age at present. When the child grows older it meets undoubted loss in the substitution of nurse's for mother's care, a tendency encouraged by the new activities of women and! by* city life. At the beginning, however, the first weeks and months of liis existence, when change and development are more rapid than at any oilier period, the human being has never lied such decent treatment as it is the linppy fashion to bestow upon him now. He is treat ext for his own welfare instead of for the amusement of UJa friends.—Colller’a Weekly.