nd" had told the tired out mother,
"Give him a teaspoon of whiskey at each feeding and that'll fix him
all right." If a few more states go dry maybe it will not be so easy
for the ignorant mother to dope and drug her helpless baby.

And neither is paregoric to be administered wholesale for colic. It
contains an opiate, and should not be given without definite orders
from a physician. And so as a parting word on "Why Babies Cry," we ask
each mother to run over the following summary of the chapter, and thus
seek to find out why her baby cries.

BABY CRIES BECAUSE:

He is hungry.
He is thirsty.
He has been given a dirty bottle.
His mother has failed properly to cleanse the nipples.
His food is not prepared right.
His food is too cold.
His bowels are constipated.
His band is too tight.
His clothes are wrinkled.
His diaper is wet.
He is too hot.
He wants fresh air.
He is too cold.
He is in pain.
He is very sick.
His throat is sore.
His ear aches.
He has been rocked, carried, or bounced.
He has been given a pacifier.
He has had too much excitement.
His mother has eaten the wrong food.

CHAPTER XV

THE NURSING MOTHER AND HER BABE

Happy is the mother, and thrice blessed is the babe when he is able to
enjoy the supreme benefits of maternal nursing. The benefits to the
child are far reaching; he stands a better chance of escaping many
infantile diseases; the whole outlook for health--and even life
itself--is greatly improved in the case of the nursing babe, as
compared with the prospect of the bottle-fed child. Maternal nursing
lays the foundation for sturdy manhood and womanhood.

Out of every one hundred bottle-fed babies, an average of thirty die
during the first year, while of the breast-fed babies, only about
seven out of every one hundred die the first year. At the same time,
nursing the babe delivers the mother from all the work and anxiety
connected with the preparation of the artificial food, the dangers and
risks of unclean milk, and the ever-present fear of disease attendant
upon this unnatural feeding. The mother who nurses her child can look
forward to a year of joy and happiness; whereas, if the babe is
weaned, she is compelled to view this first year with many fears and
forebodings. Mother's milk contains every element necessary for the
growth and development of the child, and contains them in just the
proportions required to adapt it as the