5 'he  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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“Doctoring”  the  Baby 
I  attended  a  sewing  circle  the  other 
day  where,  as  usual,  the  cares  and  trials 
of  the  home-makers  were  discussed.  Not 
one  of  those  women  believed  in  the  reg¬ 
ular  feeding  of  babies,  and  laughed  to 
scorn  any  notions  that  had  not  been 
“handed  down  from  mother  to  child 
through  long  generations/’  “Feed  them 
whenever  they  cry."  “They  can  eat  any¬ 
thing  as  soon  as  they  get.  a  few  teeth.” 
“.1  nst.  give  him  a  good  dose  of— — .  That 
cured  Charlie  right  up  when  he  was  ex¬ 
actly  like  that.”  “I’ve  got  some  pills 
the  doctor  left  for  me  and  I'll  send  them 
over  and  you  try  ’em.” 
1  didn’t  say  ninth,  for  I  was  quite  a 
bit  younger  than  the  rest,  and  hopeless¬ 
ly  in  the  minority,  but  the  things  I 
bor  gave  her  some  medicine  for  him  and 
told  her  how  much  to  give.  It  was  the 
“Sun  cholera  cure,"  which  contains 
laudanum.  It:  was  a  had  thing  to  do  in 
any  case,  hut  she  made  it  worse.  She 
thought  such  a  little  wouldn’t  do  any 
good,  so  she  poured  out  a  big  dose  and 
got.  it  down  him.  Pretty  soon  be  began 
to  look  and  act  so  queer  she  became 
geared  and  sent  for  my  mother,  who  sent 
for  the  rluctor,  and  between  them  they 
saved  h'.s  life. 
A  man  whom  we  knew  at  that  time 
was  feeling  all  run  down,  very  miserable 
indeed.  So  when  an  “Indian”  medicine 
show  came  to  town,  selling  an  absolutely 
sure  cure  for  just  such  conditions  as  i 
his.  lie  bought  four  or  five  dollars’  worth  j 
He  Takes  His  Bath  Patiently 
Huge  Sums  Spent  to  Make 
Your  Tires  Cost  Less 
You  probably  would  be  none  the  wiser — until  the 
tires  were  worn  out — if  we  should  make  the  Goodyear 
All-Weather  Tread  only  ordinarily  thick. 
Eut  we  make  it  double- thick,  so  that  you  get  extra 
wear  and  extra  mileage — thereby  adding  a  million  and 
a  half  dollars  to  our  production  costs  this  year. 
If  we  should  abandon  the  Goodyear  On-Air  Cure 
and  go  hack  to  the  old  method  of  vulcanizing,  we  could 
save  almost  $600,000  this  year. 
Eut  your  risk  of  blow-outs  from  wrinkled  or  buckled 
fabric  —  which  you  can’t  see- — would  be  greatly  in¬ 
creased. 
thought  have  been  boiling  over  ever 
since.  I  thought  of  the  time  a  few  weeks 
previous  when  I  was  in  the  home  of  one 
of  them  at  supper-time.  Her  10-nionths- 
old  baby  was  eating  a  hard-boiled  egg, 
then  she  fussed  till  she  was  given  an¬ 
other.  “Pun rice  is  so  fond  of  eggs,”  her 
mother  said,  “a  regular  little  pig."  I 
expressed  a  mild  doubt  as  to  whether 
hard-boiled  eggs  were  good  for  babies. 
“Oh,  she  eats  everything  we  do  and  noth¬ 
ing  ever  makes  her  sick."  She  seemed  to 
me  to  be  fretty  and  foul-breathed  a  good 
deal  of  the  time.  “Some  folks  are  so 
silly,”  went  on  the  mother,  “feeding  a 
nursing  baby  everything,  but  I  was  care¬ 
ful  never  to  give  her  a  thing  till  I 
weaned  her,  and  now  nothing  hurts  her.” 
,S 'he  had  been  ter  mud  a  month.  Two  or 
three  evenings  later  they  called  nit*  fran¬ 
tically  to  come  over.  They  were  nearly 
-frightened  to  death,  for  the  baby  was 
having  a  convulsion  and  they  had  never 
seen  such  a  condition.  After  I  had  done 
what  l  could  and  the  doctor  was  on  the 
way,  I  asked  what  she  had  been  eating. 
Nothing  out  of  the  way  of  course,  but 
among  other  things  the  family  had  eaten 
boiled  bam,  dumplings,  sauerkraut,  and 
apple  pie,  for  dinner;  and  warm  biscuit 
and  honey  for  supper.  And  the  baby 
"ate  what  the  rest  did," 
I  stopped  for  my  new  neighbor  to  go  to 
the  society  with  me,  but  ala*  couldn't.  for 
I  la  id  >  was  so  cross  she  was  “almost  crazy 
with  him.”  lie  had  cried  'most  all  the 
time  for  two  days,  and  wanted  to  be  held 
all  the  time.  She  supposed  it  must  he 
his  teeth.  I  saw  at  nine  by  his  furred 
tongue  and  distended  abdomen  what  the 
trouble  was,  and  found  a  neglect  Of  at 
least  two,  maybe  three  days,  A  few  min¬ 
utes’  work  left  a  relieved  baby  ready  to 
go  to  sleep.  Later  I  allowed  her  my  own 
little  homemade  toilet  chair  and  ex¬ 
plained  to  her  how  regular  habits  did 
more  to  relieve  such  conditions  than  all 
the  doses  iu  the  country. 
When  I  was  a  little  girl,  a  neighbor 
came  near  killing  her  two-year-old  boy 
who  had  “Summer  complaint.”  A  neigh- 
and  took  it.  Very  promptly  he  became  j 
covered  with  lmils  nearly  from  head  to  j 
foot,  from  which  he  SU tiered  nearly  a 
year.  But  this  was  such  a  demonstra¬ 
tion  of  their  wonderful  powers  of  driving 
the  poisons  out  of  the  system  that  he 
went  over  to  the  next  towu  where  the 
company  had  gone  and  purchased  teu 
dollars’  worth  more. 
Mrs.  A.  not  long  ago  was  having  a  sev¬ 
ere  headache.  It  arose  from  an  anemic 
condition  and  a  very  weak  heart,  but  she 
didn't  know  it — then.  Her  sister  had 
some  headache  tablets  which  were  just 
the  tiling,  cured  her  own  headache  every 
time.  So  Mrs.  A.  took  some  according 
to  directions,  and,  had  the  doctor  not  been  : 
next  door,  would  have  died  iu  a  very  few 
minutes. 
The  big  blocks  in  the  larger  sizes  of  All-Weather 
No-Hook  Tires  give  greater  traction  and  longer  life. 
They  use  mere  material.  So  does  the  increased  size 
of  the  tires.  The  two  total  more  than  $400,000  for  1916. 
Cord  Tires  are  improved,  at  added  cost.  Tubes  are 
made  thicker,  at  added  cost. 
The  extra  material  required  for  Goodyear  Tires  and 
Tubes  this  year  totals  close  to  three  millions  and  a  half. 
1  he  additional  labor  is  well  over  $600,000  and  the 
cpcc.  al  equipment  required  fer  special  Goodyear  proc¬ 
esses  costs  more  than  $150,000. 
Two  people  in  the  same  village  took  a 
certain  favorite  patent  pill  for  particular 
pains  (or  else  it  was  pale  pills  for  pink 
people)  and  then  took  soda  to  relieve 
acid  stomach.  They  died  iu  a  few  hours, 
for  the  soda  united  with  some  chemical 
in  the  pills  t..  form  a  powerful  poison. 
These  things  Hushed  through  my  mind 
as  I  listened  and  I  wondered  what  was 
the  use  of  all  this  endeavor  to  enlighten 
people  when  they  themselves  refuse  to  see 
any  sense  in  the  effort.  And  then  the 
thought  came  that  if  the  older  women 
wouldn't  protit  by  the  advice,  the  young¬ 
er  ones,  the  coming  mothers,  undoubtedly 
would  learn. 
Apropos  of  this.  I  overheard  one  of 
these  (aged  10)  tell  her  mother,  “Mam¬ 
ma,  if  you  would  feed  the  baby  regularly 
as  Mrs.  It.  does,  she  wouldn't  vomit  so 
much  ami  would  he  as  good  and  sleep  as 
well  as  Mrs.  lt.’s  baby  does. 
While  I  was  writing  this  article,  a 
week  ago,  my  own  baby  came  down  with 
a  severe  attack  of  croup,  the  first  case 
I  have  had.  When  I  could  think  of  some¬ 
thing  else  besides  bow  to  keep  the  breath 
from  being  choked  out  of  the  suffering 
baby,  I  said  to  myself,  “There.  Mrs.  R., 
that’s  what  you  get  for  judging  your 
neighbors.”  W.  K.  R. 
Why,  you  ask,  should  The  Goodyear  Tire  & 
Rubber  Company  put  these  extra  millions  into  Goodyear 
Tires? 
So  that  you  may  have  tires  better  than  the  average. 
So  that  you  may  enjoy  complete  tire  satisfaction. 
So  that  you  will  always  use  Goodyear  Tires,  after 
you  have  found  that  they  do  go  farther  and  cost  less. 
So  that  Goodyears  will  continue  to  be  the  preferred 
tires,  among  close  to  200  brands,  with  those  who  reckon 
tire  cost  not  on  price  but  on  service  and  mileage. 
The  Goodyear  Tire  &  Rubber  Company 
Akron,  Ohio 
GoOI|ffEAR  TIRES 
