Medicine: Baby Safety

Opportunely last week, when President Coolidge directed attention to "National Safety Week," by giving the movement his approval, Jessie C. Fenton's article on "Safety First for the Babies" appeared in Hygeia, health magazine.

Author Fenton has written well about mental development and mental hygiene of children. She wrote this time:

"Useful accomplishments are just as easy to teach as those that have no utility except the pleasure they give such as 'pat-a-cake' or 'How big is baby?' A number of tricks that a small baby can learn are helpful in keeping him safe...

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