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. i. re a =) od =) 18 If oF oy 4. v ol 1a iJ ve s- PERE BSeaP PRE, [868 28a 7 B & BP ASMA “Potash an Adenoidsand Diet Lists Are Like the Concern of the Partners Who Have Broad Views About Both. If Babies Could Talk They WouldChange Many a Scientific Diet List, Is Their Firm Belief. * By Montague Glass. met Max Feinermann, the waist manufacturer, in the Subway this morning, Mawruss,” Abe Potash announced one day last week, “and ever since — his daughter Hattie had the twins last year that feller couldn’t talk about nothing but top milk and lime water. I tried to get a line on what he Se GLASS / THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, fi NG @) ry ON THE CARE AND FEEDING OF CHILDREN. such indigestible foods Ike Welsh rabbit, broiled lobsters and salami,’” pected to keep her six months child quiet with a two cent dill pickle to va time has gone by when a mother ex- suck.” “Many a healthy baby has swallowed quarts and quarts of castor oll before the parents found out that their family thermometer was running two degrees too high.” “I should say, offhand, that the adenoid harvest is pretty near as valuable to doctors in New York City as the corn harvest is to farmers in the entire States of Kansas, Iowa and Illinois.” “Most baby doctors has got mothers buffaloed into believing that they are mind readers, anyhow “Doctors would save themselves a lot of tfouble if they would Just say to a mother: ‘Feed your baby the way a baby should ought to be fed, cutting out ter top milk with just a dash of by when a mother expected to kee» a healthy baby he tw six months’ lime wate -cent dill pickle to suck.’” as far as reading babies’ minds is concerned.” “It seems to be the theory nowadays, right straight down from the go-cart to the hearse, that to he healthy you've got to be unhappy.” 8 swallowed quarts and quarts of castor ofl before the “Sure I know," Morris Perlmutter sald. “I seen the twins’ father, Sam Ellisherg, last week and he says to me that when we wrote him that letter the time they was born, we con- gratulated the wrong person. We should ought to have sent it to Dr. Rifkin, the child specialist, on ac- count some people in the diamond business don’t make as much in one year as Dr. Rifkin does out of them twins in six months only. sam si that during the first year Dr n’s commissions on X- ray pictures alone must have been a couple of hundred dollars. Twice they ayed the boy twin for safety pins which they afterward found between the sheet and the mattress of the crib and once they X-rayed the girl twin expects to manufacture for the fer 4 plati and diamond baby pin ne which showed up later, together with Spring and summer of 1923, and six sterling soup spoons and a all 1 could gather was by that Wrist watch in the trunk of the up ry . ke stairs girl after the police searched time he would be making a full i. i ; line of half Malterino-Dexto, one ‘Well, children ts brought up on a BRAC sitanas very scientific plan nowadays, Maw- quaric ariey Hour and one quar- puss," Abe said. e time hi OM AALIAR AL? edge THE EVENING WORLD'S CHAPTER XXVII. ‘ OU wouldn't imagine that Y there was so much to see in a little country like this, would You? I don’t want to leave until I've een everything there Is to ba seen In Japan," said Alice, “You'll have to stay a power of d fo do that,” replied the Pirate. “A year will roll round, maybe, before there's another typhoon, We've just @issed the regular season for them." ‘What's a typhoon? Jamie in- quired. ‘‘I hope {t isn't another kind of doll. I've never seen so many kinds ef dolls any where as here.” “No, a typhoon ts not a doll,” said the Pirate, ‘‘It's a fierce wind storm that swirls the waters of the ocean into towe waterspouts and blows ships out of the bay ‘Whee!’ whistled Jamte. ‘There must be some fun when they come along.” ‘What makes the earth shake so? . ZL. AMAUAATLAPLL LS DOOIASPOCL LULL OLLL AMAL LLL LL LLL VISULLLLILLLE LADLULLDE LAL MLL DEINE Le wT ae en asked Alice. ‘Is that a typhoon com- Ing?” »,"" laughed the Pirate, “it Is the earth quaking under you. But you mustn't let that frighten you,’ h added kindly, seeing Alice's eyes grow large. ‘There are always earthquakes going on in Japan. Ther a about four every day, and the fre quently they come the less dama they do, It’s when Old Mother Earth stops rumbling for awhile that the Japanese get scared because then they know she's saving up for a big shak ing and a lot of destruction to thelr country and themselves."* “I never felt an earthquake be: fore,"’ Jamle admitted, ‘Japan's got @ lot of things I have never come adigar at hor “There is eymicthing a neve aw at home," eaid hi ing out to dry." “To ripen,"’ the Pirate corrected “And see those strange trees," said Alice. ‘Do they grow that way with with {t,"" Abe said. n THE TROUBLE WITH DIETS. “ctor, Abe," Morris d it also,"’ Morris said. thermometers ain't exactly such se: enteened jeweled, adjusted to five pos to a mother: ‘Feed your baby the gone sitions, accurate affairs neither. Many way a baby should ought to be fed, Uttle straw skirts half way up to the , those are their winter clothes. has dressed the trees to keep them warm,’ a girl playing hop- would never ure T love It here."" Allies mount if 1 can remember tt all, ants use the outd out nex is the g santhemums Parents found out that their family has," Morris agreed. thermometer was running two degrees owadays they give their children a too high, y'understand, and I wouldn't two-dollar thermometer to suck and !f put it beyond the Natio it shows that the child has got a fever Manufacturers’ Assoc of 99 degrees, Abe, right away it sets put out a line of such back the child's father $5 for a doc- mometers in order to stimulate tor, which It only goes to show that of their produc’ just as many children has visits from = “Still, Mawruss, I don’t think that the doctor because of sucking a two- mothers thermometer sucking a two-cent dill pickle. In in weighing m , if | was a man on a small wife's sister ct salary, I would stop $5 from my wife's tor, its diet and its nurse on tho housekeeping money every time she strength of the child having lost two gave the baby a dill pickle or a ther- pounds from being weighed twice in mometer to suck."” , in the old days before they slot machine in an give children thermometers to suck a baby could be sick for days before in the mother suspected there thing the matter al Castor Oi jon that they 1t-box ther- sales unders' nd me, and fathers shows half tho as because of confidence in thermometers as they do chines," Abe said. “My nged her baby’s doc- the same day. once on a penn} n-the ated station and again on a free weighing machine cut-rate drug store.” ; any It don't take even that much to ake some mothers change the baby’s clared, “which that is what comes of doctors givin: got better before anyone pabies a diet instead of food, y’under v anything was the matter with stand. For instance, Abe, doctors “Also. Abe, all would keep themselves out of a whol + lot of trouble if they would just say WZ OMY ight, 19292, (New York Mvening World) by Meese Publishing Os. 2 cutting out such indigestible foods like Welsh rabbit, brotled lobsters and sa- lami. Raw ontons is very bad for a baby, espectally before retiring, and on no account more than three ciga: a day,'—or something like that, y’un- derstand, “Then if the baby gets a little colic, Abe, {t's up to the mother and not tho doctor, because there's a pretty wide range of food left to the discretion of the mother which could give the baby the colic, y'understand,” Morris went on, “But if Dr. Rifkin tells a mother she should feed the baby only what appears on the half sheet of typewriting which he hands hér, and the baby gets the colle, y'understand, why then she compares her half sheet of typewriting with the half sheet of typewriting that Dr. Rothfinger handed her neighbor whose baby didn't get the colic, and {f Dr. Roth- finger’s formula for feeding has gor in tt a quarter of a teaspoonful less barley flour than Dr, Rifkin’s, natur- ally a child ts going to get the colle when an ignerammus Ike Dr, Rifkin Goes to work and poisons it with half a teaspoonful of barley flour.” IF THE BABIES COULD SPEAK. “And at that, Mawruss,"? Abe said, “Dr. Rifkin makes a pretty good liv- ing from adenolds alone, which I ain't seen the figures in any of the crop ex- perts’ reports, y’understand, but 1 should say, offhand, Mawruss, that the adenoid harvest is pretty near as valuable to doctors in New York City as the corn harvest {s to farmers in the entire States of Kansas, Iowa and Iilinols."* How do bables come to get these » adenolds anyway?" Morris asked “What do you mean—how do they come to get ‘em?’ Abe retorted “They're born with them. “Then why don't doctors let them keep them?” Morris inquired. ‘*No doubt they was placed there for some good purpose."’ “No doubt, he Abe agreed. “But doc- tors has always felt that the human body needed a little busheling at their hands, Mawruss, which appendixes and gall ducks was also placed in the human body for some good purpose, Mawruss, but the average doctor ain't going to let you hang onto them KIDDIE KLUB KORNER SATURDAY SPECIAL FEATURE WU | WESLEY BARRY'S LITTLE CHUNKS OF WISDOM. SAFETY FIRST. ES is on the beat, so have W care of what you do, Wesley don’t belleve in favoring h friends, If they are in the wrong. If they break the law, they'll have to tell it to the Judge. Wesley is going to have both ears stuffed full of cotton of duty and ain't goin’ to Hsten to no excuses. Be Neve me, he ts going to be some cop, if he lives up to the class of his untform. ATTENTION! Watch your step crossing the street and watch the other fellows’ speed too. Don't play with; matches, they're likely to backfire. Popguns would be all right if they would always pop the way you want them to. But they don’t. One of my best friends, a man, popped his left eye out with a gun when he was twelve years old. Now just when he could use it to glimpse the pretty girls he hasn't got it. P. &.—I'm for safety first; what are you for?—Wes. HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB. CUT OUT THIS COUPON, Beginnl any number, cut out elx of these '' coupons, — 1,002 1,008, 1,004, 1,008, 1,008 and 1,00; Cousin F you must giv ADDR: Please be c not only the city the borough also, All children may become tention fe, but who fairly wor- by sister hat's new ee that in the ike to stay here to see each flower come out In turn,” volcanoes that we “Where 1s the f. ‘8 family eautiful and strange," going, all together?” Jamie wanted to t know. ‘Let's follow an * “They are goin f mineral spring at the foot of the r joy. “I love sand of these springs in the mountains How $ it Of Japan. Almost every Japanese I'll say it for takes a daily warm bath; the peas springs. baths really true th other is qulet plum blossom, It gentlefolk have thelr pr the land. ‘The cherry not like to bathe, and the Jap . ‘What a dirty fellow th bloom of royalty t be d washing and then the ‘ nd luck flower, laughed at this stus (we call them pond lily) that it was time for tea rituality, And now, party trooped indoors and knelt on at this time of year, the land ts full of soft cushions while they drank Meht Really, I should green tea from tiny eggshell qups DAYS_OF LONG AGO. Those golden days shall ne'er be for= gotten, With all thelr beauty and clow, But they have vanished tn the mist o! time, In the days of long ago. Oh how I remember each nook an! corner, Which in childhood was my delight ‘The trees and echoing mountains, The pastures with wild flow bright. The asters by the brookside, The violet, a modest flowe The hollyhock tall and statel The roses in their bower. But alas !t 1s only a dream, For I am old and gray. And those days of childhood are gone, Remembered, but past away. Those golden days shall n’er be for gotten, With all their beauty and glow. For they have vanished in the mist of time, In the days of long ago. By DOROTHY STIRISS. AN INTERESTING INCIDENT OF MY SUMMER VACATION. ptember Essay Contest, Twelve-Year Cl Award Winne Oh, what @ great difference there was when we arrived up in the cool mountains, from the hot city. I epent my vacation up in the mountains in Maryland. Every day I enjoyed my- self in the lake near our summer home, The lake was quite large, being about the size of the Bronx Lake, I either went swimming or canoeing and sometimes fishing. The scenery up in the mountains was s0 magnificent that one cannot express ft in words, Luckily I had my cem- era with me so I snapped some of the lovely scenes. The place which interested me most was Washington, D. C. We stayed at a hotel in Washington for a week During our stay we vistted all the parks and historical buildings. We visited the White House in which our President liv Our sall up the Pc tomac River was enjoyable. The boa stopped at Moun, Vernon g0 the peo ple could get off and visit the home of our first President, George Wash ington. After we had gone throug? every room in the house we left fc home, Oh, but we were excited. We stayed in the mountains a tew weeks and then returned home again I almost eried to think of returning to the city again, but then I was glad to be back after all, vuse I had so much to tell my friends and pl mates about my wonderful vacatior MILDRED A, BARI OCTOBER CONTEST the ten’ Kidd br from six t¢ n inclusty write the best rebus letters. The answer must be sent WITH the letter. nen anette ateinid tter. 3} unless you look like you wasn't finan- cially good y'understand guage so as to be able to say an Set the blazes out of here, Morris suggested, specialists would go out of b doctors has got _ “And maybe It’s a good thing, too.’’ mothers buffaloed into believing that Morris concluded, ‘‘because if children anyhow as far has got to live all their life in a Pro- s reading bables’ minds ts concerned, hibition country with blue laws on the “and therefore side, Abe, they couldn't begin to get unless the poor baby nebich has got trained too early. something which could be recognized Copyright, 1922, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc So if a grown-up who can put up an argument that hi parts don't hurt hir can't keep them they are mind readers, poor little baby ¢ F suppose tho chances ts that babies were born WUE MAMUULILLILLLL LALO IAAL IAI LLL LALLA LLL LULU ermits the doll umd by the looks or the noise, Ifke measles or whooping cough, a mother has got to take the doctor’s word for what is hurting the child. The consequences ts, Mawruss, that doctors has taken to laying everything ¢! which is the matter with @ child, to its adenoids, y'understand, with the result that Practically every child of fairly well- to-do parents ain’t got an adenoid to its name by the time it can talk enough to say that its adenoids don’t hurt t.’* TO BE HEALTHY, YOU GOT TO BE UNHAPPY, “And I bet them baby feeding spe- clalists also get by with their theortes only because a baby can’t talk, Abe,’’ Morris continued, “which I bet yer if a six months’ old child had a fair com- mand of enough English to order its meals, Abe, it would say to Its mother: ‘Listen, Mommer, I ain’t no kitten. Give me a sirloin steak, medium rare, some French fried potatoes and the Worcestershire sauce.’ Because it’ something more nourishing than th. so-called food on the diet list fur nished its mother by a baby specia!- ist.” “And even after they can talk, Maw russ, the latest, up-to-the-minute wa of feeding children 1s not to give the: the things that taste good, like cand and pickles,” Abe said. ‘In fact I wa reading in one of them ladies’ mag: zines that half the sickness of childr: is caused by children enjoying then selves eating candy and tce cream ai going to children’s parties and other places where they are liable to get ex - cited and have a good time like cii- cuses and moving picture shows.’ “WHAT CHANCE HAS A POOR LITTLE BABY GOT THAT CAN'T “According to that, Abe,"" Morris SPEAK FOR said, “only the tightwads would have healthy children.’ “Well, it seems to be the theory nowadays right straight down from the go-cart to the hearse, y’under- infant stand, that to be healthy, you've got to be unhappy,"’ Abe said. 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