OUR BABIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 144, 12 March 1908, Page 3

OUR BABIES.

N (By 'Hicei,'.) -J ; 'tlw/;t<^pf' ; a;;jracip^ • . :J' f tain'(te^ . The.i extremo i.of; care ahd-'sys-tem' in; tho-rearmg-of,-.babies/ is becoming- so' luniversallyluniversally recogiiisctl : '.that /i there-' is -.- 'hope-now'that';many.'mothers may be'brought' togiyejsWiousattentibrt.tp-tbejTiat-terj'jand try .to understand the - simple- requirements essential for .tho/ health; Of A'themselves- iaiid" their .offspring. . Meantime. , only comparatiy jly few of -the prepared to take adequate /trouble; to 'undor- , stand 'reasons'^for" -what f/ihey.j are, daily .-.called; upon {S, 'do,' 5 br to? avqiiir'dol; ingi infth'e*i^tor'^ts ; 'pf,Hheir.'ioffspring; ;.The; -ideal ; baby ; food'- -/of' '-j:thess^typical'' Jmodern mother; i s'/. a ' powder ''towhich" billy."/; /warni :;water;. -nedA-:-bo.y ;aiiß'.'.a; 'fe#ing-b<>ttlo which'^the'child can.be ; left -to-''it ) S^f;/;indefini't^lyiti'.;lf--/^nyr l prbperly..' " rcgula'tedjsystem-'is 'advpeated^.they.. have' it expressed'/ in-half/a/dozen/ail-embrac-/ lowed without .calling-for* thought natelyj of'-intdligencg/qannqtio', •• b'ecb'mc's <«?ohtinua||y:^bro/*q&es|srjr: for^'w.omen;...as they-'.d^part v, fa;rt^ simple .ways.pf?Kature,'//and knowledge .they.necd/ caiinot. be' .compressed into - a'.nutshell/ thcre-arb certainfirst 1 . principles^-orie/,might'/almost say /commandments—which ..every ; mother /ought -/ to have ingrained into he'r.'. -The following/; instances,-.of nioro or,-',less . seripus ;'■■ harm/,'/dbhe,,/ i'./.one' yreck within/the range, of -,my- ,experi ; ; ence may. serve, to.illustrate,,whai ;I. mean' . '1.;-Failure .'to.ushako', ! or/ stir/ the. milk' at . each '..feeding, /causing the, babies to.; receive a' : great' excess'of'fit/at; oiie" feeding and a marked- deficiency- at another, , giving /rise, to indigestion,'' et-6'/_-;' The -''Golden' Rules" :'do 1 not"/montion'. stirring' the milk or prepared 'food,- because' it' was .assumed that; every .mother might bo depended'on 'to /use her reason and comman serise in such a simple' matter. The /majority;-of women do instinctively stir,a jug of/ordinary/milk, but ' it ii a curious, a^'interesting 'poiiit to-|fiiid, out' on, careful. : : eng.uiry, -thait. only•; a / minority thilik of stirring^Hnmanised'Milk,'"because they look.'upon. it /as a, prepared l food, aridforget that' it "contains; iust -as 'mueh' cream ■ as ordinary and is subject to the , same laws, as to separation of fat and- risirig of cream, when standing. • . . : '2.-1130 of utterly, improper '-articles of food, resulting in "acute, diarrhoea,, vomiting, etc.. A eighteen' ihtaths' old was given - 'corned beef.,: Further; during convalescence, while mderf special .dieting with Humanised Milk, 'he was presented 'with cane sugar sweeties by a sympathetic relation conversant; N with /the/ factsj'/arid r : a, serious relapse was brought\on! ' : /. ; V / 3. Use of 'rnilk sugar as a'complete food. in itself. . In spito of all thait has/beeh said and , written' on -the' sub'ject' thbre : arc still . women who imagine that, because -milk , sugar'.is t thb; "most ; - abunddnV solid cqnstituent' of human milkj that]'; therefore,'little or nothing' .else/ is needed' to., ensure, l proper / nutfitiori "and; growth. ; Th'ey' regard '"milk'; sugar -, as'.; the latest form of baby food, whereas it-js, of course, simply one of the three essential con-: ' stltuents—viz., /sugar,'"fat■ /and proteid- (or flesh-forming material). Practically; speaking,rany one of these elements ,is as important as any ">others/since' milk", is' a cbmpound of all three.. -. Women who would not'think of : -setting' v abo'ut 'the -making" of-"ordinary bread without 'proper pfopp'rtions';-.6f rflour,' water,' and; y&istj-; '' Can make a. baby" food:. by '/capriciotisly.\ varying the bsseiitial constituents,-' or/' .'leaving -, outsomb altogether.; During.'.th'e week two/prepared'milks,.mada up by : nurses for the use of babies, have been investigated, :-, one' ..of' . which' contained only .-a twentieth - of //the normal- proportion of jinat'erial,. and the'other twibo the proper proportion , of . fait.lt'iStho; long-suffering ,'haby who has the/brunt of 'airthis 'ignorance and: carelessness/ / Well /migh'ii Herbert/ Spencer exclaim /with .bitter, jn'digniitibn: "To tens of thousands . that are killed add hundreds of thousands that suryiv.e>with :feeblp constitutions and millions that grow up with" constitutions -not ,so strong as 'they should be, and.you Tyill haye some idea of the curse inflicted on: their offspring- by women ignorant of the laws of ■'life,'"' 1 .

Cheoso souffle is 'hico, for .luncheon or. supper, and has full meat value. ; Mix four level tablespoonfuls of flour with half a'cupful of cold milk. Add one cupful of hot milk and' stir' until thick and smooth; add four "'.tablespoonfuls of soft;' breadcrumbs, half a" pound ,of grated., or chopped cheese,! .half, a teaspoonful .of salt and ,ai dashr'of. pepper. '/Stir; until tho choese , i 4 melted, then' add the yolks." and the . well-beaten whites of two .eggs,: turn into a baking-dish. Bako-until lighVand brown—for about fifteen minutes—arid serve it at once« ;