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"How shall I get my child to sleep?" wail many mothers. Last week Dr. E. J. Huenekens of Minneapolis discussed this problem in The Journal of the American Medical Association. He declared that it was often the inept tactics of just such wailing overanxious parents that keep the child awake and derange its nervous system. "I know nothing more pitiful," said he, "than the frequently precocious child brought up in the adult atmosphere of the typical family hotel." He classified two common varieties of harmful parents:

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