Keeler-Bailey Family, 1828-1928

Some Evils Babies Suffer:

Bow legs, injured eyesight, strained and dislocated arms among them

(Contributed by Local Baby Week Committee.)

    Wednesday of this week will provide the first of the Baby Week campaigns lectures when Professor C. E. A. Winslow, of Yale, will be heard in Odd Fellows' hall at eight p. m., on Child Welfare. As has previously been stated, Professor Winslow is a world-wide authority on his subject and this will afford an opportunity seldom given in Danbury to hear this notable speaker. His talk will be free to the public, Professor Winslow very generously coming here for the Baby Week campaign committee at a small expense.

    Baby Week is intended to help all mothers and incidentally a few of the features that will be strongly touched on during the campaign, besides food, care, clothing, fresh air and sanitary surroundings may perhaps come under come of these headings, but are not often taken seriously. Among these are exposure of infants' eyes to strong light or sunshine, dragging little toddlers along as the mother walks at her usual gait, thoughtless of the fact that little feet cannot travel so rapidly; often we sec small folk lifted, or we might say, pulled up, onto sidewalks in a manner that threatens injury if not deformity. There are many other negligent and careless acts. One result and one most pronouncedly evident in this city is the number of bow-legged children. Many mothers are in too much of a hurry to have their little ones walk. Someone in speaking of this recently said: ``Of course, it wasn't so bad for, girls to be bow-legged as for boys till the short skirts were worn, but now it does show so.'' Indeed, it seems almost unbelievable that anyone would contenance anything as hideous as bow-legs just because it didn’t show, especially when it is preventable and, as another speaker has said. ``It certainly, must be bad enough to know it yourself even if it doesn't show.'' These are only a few of the things to which attention can be rightly directed and it is hoped that conditions will be remedied.
    
    The store windows and The Fly continue to create and hold much interest and the following circulars being distributed by the Boy Scouts should benefit many babies:   

Best Care for Babies

•     Mother's milk is the safest food.
•     Modified milk is next best for babies.
•     Feed the baby at regular intervals.
•     Give clean water to drink between feedings.
•     Keep everything out of baby's mouth but its food.
•     Give baby daily bath and clean clothes.
•     Wash diapers after every using.
•     If bottle-fed, wash bottles and nipples in boiling water with soda and rinse before using.
•     Keep milk cool and free from flies; flies carry disease.
•     Have baby keep alone.
•     Keep baby quiet, do not rock it.
•     Baby, sick or well, needs fresh air night and day.
•     Keep sunlight out of baby's eyes.
•     Give baby no solid food until after teething.
•     If baby is ailing, call the doctor---do not wait---it may be too late.

Baby Killers

Soothing syrups with opium in them, pacifiers to suck, tea, coffee, lemonade, beer, long tubed nursing bottles.

Accounts of the part the clergy are taking in this important campaign will be found elsewhere in the News and the papers from cities and towns throughout the United States contain accounts of hte vigorous, instructive and interesting pursuit of Baby Week campaigns.

Next Saturday afternoon three free talks will be given in St James' church Parish House from 2:30 to 4:30 o'clock, especially appealing to mothers. The topics will be ``Care of Infants, '' ``Preparation of Modified Milk, '' ``Children.'' The speakers will be Dr. Annie Keeler, Miss Mary Brennan, visiting nurse, and Mrs. Matilda Collins, school nurse. Miss Brennan's talk of food preparation will offer a complete demonstration.