"HARDENING" BABY
When Ivan Swift, who is partly of Sioux Indian descent, was arrested in "Washington, United States, recently, for carrying his five months' old daughter about without clothes, he said: "it is an old Indian custom." Swift added that the baby had been ill, and the Indian treatment for hardening u child was snow baths and plunges into water through holes cut in the ice. The baby, lie said, was always ill when she wore clothes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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77"HARDENING" BABY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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