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"JUST WON'T EAT"
..... A PROBLEM
THAT PERPLEXES MOTHERS By GARRY CLEVELAND MYERS, M. D.
· HILE, as a rule, the tot co- opernten better with his mother, behaves better and is happier, with her alone, there are some cases in which the opposite is true. Now and then Komeone
saya of the youngster who will eat heartily and behave almost perfectly for some relative or stranger in the absence of the mother but will ent poorly and grow stubborn and generally naughty when the mother appears or when he is wholly in her earc.
Yet this
very conselen- greatest
mother may try hard. Indeed, her very
prove her lousness may hindrance. Being so eager to guide
him well she may us she finds her
Krow
brought him home I was the same thing all over again. Please help me," she pleaded.
NOT CHIEF FACTOR
I answered this mother personally, your While the larger home of sister-in-law could make some dif- ference, it obviously is not the chief factor.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PENICILLIN
CURES EAR
TROUBLE
By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M. D.
is often just a lille bit of extra I know-how that makes all, the
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difference between a real cure and unsuccessful treatment. For solutions some time now, penicillin of various types have been used for the treatment of chronic running card and many of them have been disappointing, though, in theory, the penicillin should have done the trick by clearing up the infection in the middle part of the car from which Buch casca the discharge Been in comes.
More recently, it has been found the that not the penicillin but water solution in which it was ap- plied was at fault. When the carte amounts of penicillin were used in a solution of 35 percent alcohol and 50 percent glycerine, excellent re- sulis were obtained.
Number of Advantagos This preparation has a number of detrimenta! advantages. It has no nction on the penicillin. The alcohol the and glycerine tend to dry out
of shrinking causing tissues,
rather than materials. In the ear having the swelling effect of water, In addition, this solution sticks to the tissues and hence keeps the peniell-
lin in contact with the affected area.
You reveal the crux of
In carrying out the treatment, the cleansed by the car la thoroughly your problem when you say: "We've
when he hol. The car water lead a horse to coaxed, whipped, etc." Did you ever physician with a solution of alco-
wouldn't drink? Then you refer to his not wanting to sit still long
to cat. He must be enough jittery, like his mother.
very
For the present, I suggest you let him get down away from his food whenever he chooses, with the un- regular derstanding of course that he can't get up again til the next panicky
consis- meal. If you stick to this efforts falling. Naturally, the youngster "catches" fenily for n week he will gradually choose on his own free will and ac- were As if it lier nervousness
cord to at longer at his meals and
sure to But be cat more, measles, and it "lakes" at once.
nothing about his eating. Show no concern with your voice or face or
he
by movements
con see, even movements of your insides which he cannot see but sense.
EATING PROBLEM
"I am a mother twenty-three and have a boy two and a half years his old. Our greatest problem is cating. He is alert and bright but so full of life that he doesn't want He to sit still long enough to ent. wants to eat only a coule of tea- apoonfuls of breakfast or none at all and little more than that at lunch or dinner, We have tried thing we can think of but nothing works, We've coaxed, whipped and even deprived him of some of toys but all in vatni.
every-
the
"About" a month ago, when I was called out of town, my husband and son stayed with my sister-in-law. She has a much larger house than ours. While there he ate heartily without any protesting and gained two pounds. When I returned and
Household Hints
IF your starch is lampy or not thoroughly cooked it will stick to the fron. If this happens (as it may once in awhile), wipe the iron clenu with a damp cloth when just warm, never hal. Or rub-it-gently-over. sait spread on paper.
Egg stains on silver may be re- moved with plain salt.
UNDER CONTROL
50
BAY
long
In the meanwhile plan n
of getting yourself programme wholly under control, relaxing more, lolling more, letting less important bo you can be things go undone. more serene, speak in quieter tones the and move with poise. Keep radio silent while he is awake. You and dad should often cuddle this lad, things rend to him, make and do with ihn, enjoy whut he makes and saves, get him with playmates of his age.
ta
Work on ways at winning his co- operation in all sorts of situations and limit your forbiddings to a few necessary things (not related eating), when "No" or "Don't" will always be final, backed up if neces- sary, with the hand, never with the Inw.
canal is then
filed
with the penicilin-alcohol-glycerine mixture, and it is allowed to remain for about twenty minutes. Some cotton is then put into the car canal. Remove Cotton
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tbo
The patient is instructed to move the cotton at night before ho retires, to cleanse the ear with al-
In put cohol solution, then to place colton in the car canal. The the penicillin preparation, and again to patient is advised to sleep on side which is not affected. In the morning the treatment is repeated.
for This procedure is followed about two weeks; then treatment is week, tho discontinued for about one
to and the patient returns physician for further treatment and observation.
Within Throo Weeks
With this treatment, it la possible to clear up the infection within three weeks, most cases.
the
In those instances in which treatment does not seem to be over- patient infection, the coming the uses the pentelllin for one week, and then
preparation employs riycerite of hydrogen peroxide for one week.
of
Dr Aubrey G. Rawlings of San Francisco, has found this treatment more effective than any other cases of chronic running car which can be cleared up by means other than surgery. Of course, the treat- ment can only be employed under the direction of the physician those cases in, which he thinks would be suitable.
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By ELEANOR ROSS
Test your measuring spoons and Colitics, so whenever the guest
cups, if you. have two sets, to
if they are quite liquid can be so
Into a cup that
sce
Any accurate. eurefully poured It will round up over the top before it spils. Ob- serve the marks at eye level, and put the cup on a level surface, not on your hand. Even the line that marks the fractions of a cup width and should be viewed at its should top edge. A standard cup hold one-half a standard pint of 10 level tablespoons of liquid. A start- dard tablespoon holds three standard tenspoons of liquid.
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The newest job le delightful, for
is virtually the suite of rooms
guesthouse, but Williamsburg decorated with an eye to case and exact is has comfort. No room
replica of a Williamsburg room, but there are architectural details that convey the Colonial Virginia feeling and this is helped out by splendid copies of authentic pleces and ac- cessories.
A small meat saw will soon pay for itself in saving meat. If you buy.
instance, broiled,
a leg of lamb, for
steoks from it to be
roast the rest.
cut and
Another Era
The introduction to another era is superbly done with the foyer setting the pace. One steps off the elevator
'WHO ME?”
Mommy, the pup, looks inquisitively at young screech owl caught In free at Reading, Pa.
in
It
Into a duplication of a Williamsburg street scene with clapboarding and hold windows ihat front store samples of glass, sliver and fabrics, reproductions that are well done. A complete "aide-wolk" helps brick the pleture.
The three bedrooms are all beau- tiful, as is the room that represents the parlour of the famous Raleigh tavern. We found it interesting that telephone, had been such modernities as the and electric lighting amartly masked or even hidden, or adapted to modern ideas while re- taining the proper old-time look. For Instnnec, in the main bedroom there is a curtained and canopied bed that holds within its four posts, The two modern twin-sized beds.
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Charming Living Room
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ODD FACTS
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An egg whose yolk and were wrapped around a second com- pleto egg was laid by a hen belong- ing to a Nebraska man.
SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1948. MAMA MEETS A YOUNG FAN
DAB and FLOUNDER
By WALTER
And
One way to remember Mama is to get her autograph. Irene Dunne, who plays the title role in George Stevens". pro- duction of " Remember Mama," will always be remembered Norwegian by this fuvenile admirer. Miss Dunne portraya
in Radio production mother of four children. In the IKO which he co-stars with Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka and Philip Dorn.
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Let's Eat
AY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
A Real English Dinner
HE British girl at the tele- phone desk called to me as I passed through the lobby. "Oh. Mrs Allen, could you spare a minute to help me?" She was quite excited because her best girl friend had just arrived from England.
"And I like to surprise her with dinner, the kind wo nreal English had before the war. Of course, she'd like a roast joint of beef," she went
on.
Very Expensive
she likes them served with whipped cream, which is another great treat. And we'll have tea for a beverage." "How about the first course at dinner?" I inquired.
serve course.
"In the section of England trom ever we come, they seldom
main anything before the which
But I've been in the United States long enough to learn to like servo that so we'll tomato juice, with nice crisp biscuits.
"But Mrs. Allen," she went on, just how shall I bake the York-. shire pudding? When I was a child, hefore the war, remember seeing my mother put a big roast of beef to cook on a rack in a roasting pan. About an hour before it would be to pour Yorkshire done, she used
pudding batter into the drippinga in the roasting pan. And it would bake right under the meat. I re- member it had the most wonderful savory flavour. But I'm going to roast a piece of sirloin steak instead of a big joint, and I haven't any rack to put it on. How can I give that good meaty flavour to my York- shire pudding?"
I didn't want to dampen her en- thusiasm, by reminding her that large
roasts of beef are very ex- that the I pensive. So suggested ask the butcher for a thick, two- pound slice of sirloin steak. Sliced thin, across the grain, it would be plenty for one meal for the four persons who would be at table. And she wouldn't have the problem of large a paying for and using up
which would last There's an answer to every cook- expensive roast the week through. 11 is possible to ing question. Just as there is to most the serve an expensive meat once in a other problems. You'll find while even on a limited budget, I method I gave her fully explained enough for one meal only is pur-in-the recipe for Yorkshire Pudding
given in this column.
chased.
"Be БЦТС to make plenty of gravy." I went on. "And roast some In the pan peeled while potatoes 'with the ment. Of course, you're Yorkshire pud- planning to have ding."
"My friend would love that, but I don't know how to make it," the I gave her the girl confessed. So recipe.
Brussels Sprouts
Fux-
For a second vegetable
ir fresh gested Brussels sprouts;
nvailable, fresh- sprouts were not frosted sprouts could be used, or she could substitute broccoli, or broccoli rabe--those thin ataiks that appear in many spring markets and look and taste almost like regulation broccoll.
Poaches
"What are you going to have for dessert?" I asked.
DINNER
Chilled Tomato Juice Roast Beel Gravy Yorkshire Pudding
Broccoli
Sprouls or Brussels Chilled Peaches with Whipped
Cream Coffee
Milk (Children) or Tea All Measurements. Are Level Recipes Serve Four
Roast Beef
Select any cut of roast beef de- Aired. But in any case, order it boned and rolled. Porterhouse or sirloin roast will prove the most ex- pensive. However, a
ploce
of brisket, the or top round, can be roasted by
method described quick searing here;
for roast beef to serve one meal, a thick cut of sirloin steak will prove
satisfactory.
For a slight garlic flavour, rub the ment all "That's easy," the girl laughed.
over with a cut scellon of garlic. "My friend has already told me
Place the beef on
rack in
in the that she'd appreciate more than
roasting pan. Dust with flour, anything come inned peaches.".
a very hot and pepper, and roast in a "You mean canned peaches," I
F. for 15 min., or until the oven, 450 said.
nour'
begins to brown. Reduce the heat to 350 F. and finish roasting. allowing 20 min. to the pound. Baste 3 times with c. het water in which 2 tbsp. fncat fat or margarine have been melted.
"Yes, they are a great luxury In England," she explained. "And
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A London firm has now brought out a remedy against such vermin. which it sells under the name of "P.C.L" "P.C.L" is equally effective against woodworm and the death watch beetles which grow out of their larvae.
อ
Roast Sirloin Steak
salt
If a thick cut of airloin steak is roasted, prepare in the same way, but allow about 30 min, for roasting at a ricatly temperature of 375 F. for a medium rare roast.
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Yorkshire Pudding
Sift together 1 c. all-purpose jour, tap, salt and lap. pepper. Add 2 eggs, slightly beaten and Beat until mixed with c. milk,
hand beater. Then bubbly with a pour into the pan under the roast- ing beef, 45 min, before the meat To stamp out this vermin as will be done. If you have no roast- effectively as possible, the periods ing rack and the beef is placed di- the pan, of its life and growth should be rectly on the bottom of studied. There are two singes in bake the Yorkshire pudding in a the year when it is best to
use separate "x" oiled pan, basting "P.C.L" The first about this season, twice with drippings from the meat. Just before the beetles hatch out, and the second is in August, when "F.C.L" will deal with ony
not which have a
To give cooked broccoli or Brus- destroyed
and might otherwise sels sprouts a very nice taste, com- produce live offspring.
ILIS equal amount of Naturally, every one of the wood-tbino with worm's hiding-holes must be treated Course-dieod celery, cooked until barely tender,,, and season with with the remedy, so that it has no
browned buiter. chanco.of escape.
In Ardmore, Okla., two enlous by prisoners escaped from 41 breaking through the wall with can opener..
At Madison Square Garden, NY.. recently, two teams of paraplegic war veterans, played a bankot ball `game-from-wheel-chairs,
already been
TRICK OF THE CHEF
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BEATING THE CRIME WAVE: PRISONS EXPERT ATTACKS 28 DAYS'
FOR 'TOUGH EGGS
Book of the Day by GORDON SEWELL
crimes were small the sentences were THE "Mikado" comic operari, the longest being: 21 months.
THE
policy of "making the But 13 year of his life have been punishment fit the crime" is spent behind the bars. blamed by barrister Leo Page This man and his record of sen- as the main reason why 10,000 tences are typical says Mr. Page..
That the Mr Page's moral?
sentences out of the 25,000 mon jailed
system of repeated short each year have been in prison is a failure on three counts:~ before.
IT IS NOT DETERRENT, Thus, in 1044, this man is convicted These persistent ollenders who keep busy the policemen five times and his prison sentences who should be working today on add up to ten and a half months in
a single year. major crimes-have dreary re-
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REFORMATIVE. 15 NOT
cords of small crimes and point-2 At the age of 58 he was com-
less punishments.
..
In The Sentence of the Court" (Faber, 105. Od.), Mr. Page, who is a Home Office adviser and county J.P., attacks the polley of rule-of- thumb sentences which, to a large degree ignore the personal history of the prisoner.
of un
Ho gives this life record "old lag" of 50, who is in prison
42nd sen for stealing cloth-his tence.
As a boy, this prisoner was sent to an industrial school for truancy. He became a labourer. In 1914 he joined the Army under an assumed name. Demobilised in 1918 with a "Very Bad" military character, became tramp and
ກ criminal.
How it began
In the intervals between sentences he roamed
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pelty
prison
the country- side, making mats which he some- times sold. According to his own story he worked when he got the chance. But he never sinyed tong in any single job.
was seven
His first punishment days' hard labour for stealing wall paper. A year later he did three overcoats. for stealing months Then nine months for bousebreaking and larceny.
To theft he He went on stealing. added fraud, assault, wilful damage. drunkenness.
Never a big crime he hadn't that much intelligence. And because the
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sort of
mitting exactly the same offences as those with which began his criminal carcer ogo of 32.
ho at the
PREVENTIVE. IS NOT Despite 42 prison sentences, he is still enabled to commit a large number of crimes.
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More facts
Mr Page's cure? Long sentences (three to five years) at an carly gin to flash.. Inhumane? No. Be- stage, when the danger signals be-. cause in prison "the old harshness and brutality ... have rightly gone." Because this way the criminal can be turned into a good citizen. criticises
the Mr. Page alco prison system--not for pushing men down, but for falling to ft them up. For this he blames the judges of the higher courts who "commit men to prison for periods too short methods to be for reformative effective."
know aro
Judges, he urges, should something of the men they
their pallet sentencing besides
Case-histories should in- records, clude data about health Intelligence,
recreations family, associates, work.
and
Only then will I be possible to treat ench offender as a separate
human problem-and to beat men time. criminals.
give police- tho bigger
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