flexed, both hands holding his beloved bottle still
lingers in my mind as one of the pleasant memories of my lad's
babyhood days, and at the close of the second year, when the beloved
bottle was left behind, I believe I missed something as well as did
the lad.

I recall no difficulty with his taking the food from a cup. The
success of all normal weanings is due entirely to the fact that it is
done gradually and slowly, and under no circumstances should it be
roughly and abruptly attempted--particularly in case of the bottle
feeding.

TRAINING THE BOWELS AND BLADDER

Reference is made to this subject in another part of this book--where
we went into the detail of keeping the daily record of these
physiological occurrences--and it was found that the bowels moved and
the bladder was emptied at about the same time each day. Any mother,
caretaker, or nurse, who will take the time to keep a daily record of
the hours of defecation and urination, will observe the time carefully
and will catch the child on nearly every occasion before an accident
occurs. Often as early as four months the bowels will move in an
infant's chamber at regular times each day. The nurse or mother places
this receptacle in her lap and holds the child gently and carefully
upon it. A little later it can be made to sit on a special chair
prepared for the purpose, and at eight or nine months by careful
training the urination can be controlled, and by the end of the first
year the diapers ought to be discontinued.

If the child has not learned to control the bladder by the age of two
years, medical attention should be called to the fact and remedial
measures instituted.

BABY'S SPEECH

The baby should begin to talk at one year. He early learns to say
"mamma" and "papa," and gradually adds nouns to his vocabulary, so
that at eighteen months the normal child should have a vocabulary of
one hundred to one hundred and fifty words. As he nears the two-year
mark, he has acquired a few simple verbs and he can possibly put three
words together, such as, "Willie wants drink." Pronouns come in late,
as we all recall that the young child usually speaks of himself by his
own name.

Children are born mimics. If you talk baby talk to them, they will
talk baby talk back. For instance, a well known author told us just
the other day that for many years no other name was given to the
sewing machine in his house but the word "mafinge," and not until he
went to sc