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That Dreadful Dummy!
(OMETIMES, a
baby has
This sweeping statement is borne out by the fact that baby pushes the obnoxious dummy out of his mouth again and again until he is bribed to keep it in by his mother dipping it into something sweet-
The mother who is willing to shirk some of the responsibilities of motherhood gives her baby a dum- my. This unhygienic, practice is mainly due to her inability to keep baby happy. She surely has not realised the serious and far-reach- ing ill-effects left by this unneces sary and acquired habit.
to see that
Clockwork regularity in his whole day, natural feeding, or if that is not possible, properly managed and correctly balanced artificial feed- ing, weekly weighing baby is gaining and developsig in the
standardised way. suficient sleep and rest for his age and need. fresh air and sunshine in liberal amounts, the mothering and manag- ing at the right times, all provid ed for in proper mothercraft man- agement, will not allow for necessity of the dummy in the young baby's day.
Baby's only method of telling his mother that something is wrong is by crying. It therefore, the mother's duty to find out what is wrong, perhaps, he is too warm, or cold, cramped by lying in one posi- tion, may need changing, may not be having sufficient food, or a lit- the "wind" pain has not been re- moved after his last feeding. Any
of these could easily be righted by proper attention, but, in many cases, he is bribed into quietness.
The dummy provides an oppor- tunity for introducing germs into the system. Even though it were sterilised every day, it would not be possible to keep it free from germs and dirt. Very often it falls the floor, which, though swept every day, may be infected with all sorts of germs carried in off the streets on the soles of shoes Baby will not keep the dummy in his mouth all
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the time, and flies will be attract- ed by the sweet and milky favour when it hangs down from his goFIL. It is well known how germ-laden the ordinary house-dy is. Especial- ly during summer time, it may be the carrier of that dreaded gastro- enteritis disease, so devastating in its effects and sometimes fatal to a baby.
"Instead of the movement of the jaws at the usual four-hourly feed- ing-times of the day, the perpetual movement and surking causes mis- shaping and narrowing of the soft. päable bones of the palate. Follow- ing on this, the secondary teeth. needing so much more room than the temporary ones, push through in irregular and cramped formation, and so out of position that the up- per ́and lower jaws do not meet. often protruding mouth breathing resulting. Adenoids, enlarged ton- ils, and a lowering of the child's vitality with disposition towards disease are the additional conse- quent evils of the mouth brething.
Again, the lack of the sucking stimulus" necessary at the regular feeding-times, "caused through the muscles of the jaw becoming tired: by the continuous sucking at the dummy, prevents baby from attack- ing his meal at the right hour with his normal hunger.
The gastric juices of the stomach have been falsely stimulated by the useless jaw-movement and suction. There- fore, the child is not as hungry and. ready for his meal as he should be, if his system had had the rest be
the tween feeding hours. With
lack of the strong suction found in a hungry and energetic baby, the milk natural functioning of the secretory glands is not stimulated sufficiently.
The loss of this necessary and natural stimulation will lessen the How from the secretory glands and eventually cause it to cease. The mother will, ere this, be forced to realise that baby is not having sufficient food, not gaining weight. and developing satisfactorily. The subsequent result will be that baby will be weaned long before it would otherwise have been necessary.
In addition to the harm already mentioned, many a mother uses the coercion in starting baby on dummy. habit. Finding him averse to the taste and feel of the flacid rubber in his mouth, she dips it in to some sweet substance glycer ine, condensed milk, honey, etc. — thereby upsetting all the balance of his dietary. Not only once, dur- ing the day, but quite frequently, has the dummy to be enticingly sweetened before he will keep it in his mouth to suck to suck and drow-m sily forget the cause of his crying. Baby is thereby provided with the "sweet-tooth" habit, and later on
many a difficulty will arise; in gett- ing him to eat the various foods that are not sweetened. The addi- tional sugar during the day will cause diarrhoea and still further trouble.
Character forming and moral training begin in the cradle, there- fore self-control should be taught instead of stuffing baby's mouth with the useless, sweetened rubber to stop him crying.
By giving him the dummy, which will produce artificial satisfaction, he will become self-indulgent. Baby will not learn how to be patient. and if his crying and whims are taken notice of he will be more likely to suffer from temper tan- trums as his independence grows.
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ways being asked about the value of astringents as a means to a clear, unlined skin. use? Are astringents safe to Do they relax the skin and in- duce wrinkles afterward? Wil they coarsen its texture?.
These are the points which all girls want to know before invest- ing in some little bottle of sweet- smelling liquid labelled astringent which is usually so pleasant and re- freshing to use.
The question has to be gone into rather fully before it can be satis factorily answered.
One might say that very power- fal astringents can never be any thing but barmful They must raturally draw the skin too much; But a and consequently loosen it. gentle astringent, or toning lotion. used in the right way and at the right time, has undoubtedly a good and lasting effect, and should be a part of every girl's beauty outfit
A good mild astringent may suit your skin for rejuvenating effect. but the greatest care should always be taken to cleanse the face. very thoroughly before using a lotion with any astringent properties
whatever.
If an astringent is dabbed over even the smallest amount of surface dust or powder, then it will cause the pores to close over this dust and water matter, and the re- sult may be roughened patches or even blackbeads.
The morning is the best time to use a stimulating lotion. After the bath, when the face is perfect- ly clean and has been given a gentle frictioning, it should be dabbed on with cottonwool, allowed to dry, and then your vanishing cream or pow der base applied.
For oily, rather dark complexions, a powder base containing some as- tringent property has a most ton- ing effect, and often works won- ders in whitening the skin, redne- ing its natural oiliness, and clos ing those coarsened
pores which
• Esther Astringents When
And How?
piece of cottonwool and while the face is still very slightly moist, the powder applied-preferably, with a clean beaver puf. It can also be used on the neck and arms for an evening tablet
Lemon-nice "is an astringent, and a very excellent one, too. Lemons are not used half enough as beau- tifiers, perhaps because they are just too simple and easy to come by.
The nice should be diluted, as it is too drying alone. Almost all of us need somë slight base for our Powder and rouge, and from the homely lesion can be made a splen- did one, which is whitening and as- tringent both, and also quite harm- Iss for everyday use.
Cat a slice from # fresh ripe lemon. Pour into a saucer a few drops of the following mixture:
Orangeflower water, 2 ounces, Glycerine, 1 ounce.
Dip tie lemon slice into this, and rub the face and neck with it. - Smooth it dry with your hands, and then put on your powder.
One other point about astringents. is that if you use one habitually, you must also use a skin food re gularly, too. It is a great mistake. to imagine that astringents alone "can banish fine lines. Indeed..
one
is used at night it should always be followed by a nourishing cream made with such easily-absorbed oils as almond, olive, or lanoline.
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Get from your chemist a simple mixture of glycerine and rosewater în the proportion of one and
a half ounces of rosewater to half an
Το ounce of glycerine. this add one ounce of strong pero ·· xide of hydrogen, and half an ounce of witchhazel.
After this has been dabbed on, it should be smoothed off with a small
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