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FEEDING CHILDREN
Georgia State Board of Health Stress
es Importance of Proper Food
in Prevention of Disease.
Atlanta, Ga., June 25.—(Special.)—
The subject of the proper feeding of
young children should be an impera¬
tive part of the curriculum of every
college and training school where
young women are taught, says the
Georgia State Board of Health. There
is no knowledge more essential to the
proper preservation of the race, the
board points out, because proper feed
ing not only prevents diseases that
are often fatal, but puts the child in
a healthy condition, enabling it the
better to withstand disease attacks.
It is in summer that the greatest
amount of care must be exercised in
feeding the child, because it is in hot
weather that the greater number of
children die as the result of some
form of bowel trouble due to improper
feeding which may be of several
kinds. The child may have the wrong
food; the quality may be too strong
for its age, or it may be given too
much food.
Mothers should always nurse their
children where they possibly can, for
the mother's milk is a perfect food
for the child up to nine or ten months.
Unfortunately, however, more moth
ers than formerly are unable to nurse
their children, and sometimes the
mother’s milk does not agree with
the child; so that more frequent re
sort must be had to artificial feeding
for which the best thing obtainable is
modified cow’s milk given from a hot
tie. Artificial foods offered in the
market may seem to do well for a
time, but often lead to troubles indi¬
cated in the beginning by peevishness
and fretfulness of the cniid.
in artificial feeding select the milk
from a good, healthy cow, preferably
one of tne ordinary mixed breeds, as
that of the blooded Jerseys and Al
derneys is generally too rich in fats.
Still the use of the whole milk would
give a much less percentage of fats
than is needed, and for this reason
modified for feeding infants should
be made from the upper third of the
milk after it has been allowed to
stand in the refrigerator not less than
four hours. Thus there is used a
larger proportion of the cream with a
less amount of the other constituents.
This then must be diluted with boiled
water in order to make the amount ol
albuminous material given the child
more nearly approximate that ol
mother’s milk, and a small amount
of lime water should be added in or¬
der to neutralize the excessive acid
ity.
Tables have been prepared showing
just what proportions of this upper
third of the milk, containing ten per
cent, of fat, boiled water and lime
water should be used in making the
modified milk suitable for children's
food. It is better that these propor
tions be secured from a physician,
preferably one who has made a spe
cial study of the treatment of chil
dren.
The utmost care should always be
used in handling the milk from which
this food is to be prepared, and when
prepared it should be sealed and re¬
turned to the refrigerator where it
should be kept until required for feed¬
ing. It is best not to use milk which
has been in the refrigerator more
than twenty-four hours, or at most
forty-eight hours, and then only il
kept at proper temperature. The mod¬
ified milk should be poured direct
from the receptacle in which it is
kept into the feeding bottle, and the
latter should be placed in warm wa
ter until the milk is “milk-warm”
when it is ready to be given to thi
child.
Cleanliness in everything connect¬
ed with the feeding of the child is o:
the utmost importance. Bottles and
nipples should be boiled after using
and then kept in a saturated solution
of boracic acid. The nipple, after be
ing cleansed should come into con
tact with nothing but the infant’s
mouth. Bottles with no neck are pre¬
ferable because they can be more
easily cleansed.
During very warm weather modi
lied milk made from the upper third
of the milk may be found too strong,
and it is well to reduce the amount
of fat by using the whole milk in¬
stead of the richer portion. This pre¬
caution should always be taken in
cases where children have acute dis
eases, and the total quantity taken
should be less than under ordinary
circumstances.
The amount of food given should
always be reduced in very hot weath¬
er, even in the case of very healthy
children. Often when a child is fret¬
ful in hot weather, it is only thirsty,
and mothers often make the mistake
of food, thinking it hungry and giving more
whereas the quantity of food
should be diminished and more water
given.
Pasteurized milk is often given dur
Ing epidemics of bowel troubles and
fever, and peptonized milk is some¬
times given children who fail to
thrive where all other precautions
have been taken. These should be
prepared and given only by the di¬
rection of a physician.
After the first year as the child is
weaned other food should be gradu¬
ally added. It should still consist
largely of milk to which sometime la
ter there may be added gruels prepar¬
ed from well cooked coats or barley,
beef-juice or the white of an egg
slightly cooked. The various broths
may also be given. Children relish
very much all fruit juices and these
may be allowed in moderation with
out harm, and even with benefit in
many cases. As the child grows old¬
er, the starches should form a greater
and greater proportion of its diet, but
due care Bhould be exercised in al
ways oughly seeing to it that they are thor¬
ble cooked; in order to be digesti
for children such substances
should be cooked at least three or
four hours before being eaten. The
so-called “breakfast foods’’ or “ce
reals’- are for the most part bad, in
uding grits and hominy, and should
be used.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912.
MARRYING DIVORCEES.
The Methodist preachers of Chi¬
cago have decided that hereafter they
will not marry a couple in which one
or both of the parties liave been
divorced unless + bey will submit to
a ten days’ examination of their re¬
cords before the ceremony is per¬
formed. This step has been taken
in the hopes that It will lessen the
number of divorcees. While the min¬
isters’ action will not have much ef¬
fect upon the situation we fear, at
once, as there are too many other
ministers, unfortunately, and justices
of the ipeace, who are ready to marry
a divorcee at any time, but their ac¬
tion will have the effect of helping
the sentiment against the flagrantly
large number of divorces in the Unit¬
ed States.
A divorce is, in some respects a
calamity to a community in that it
is a blow aimed at the home, in ev¬
ery instance, and the frequent repe¬
tition of divoorces has become one
of tlie greatest evils of the day. In
line with the action of the Chicago
minister®, it might be well to remem¬
ber that while on this earth Jesus
Christ distinctly said that the remar¬
riage of a divorcee is a violation of
the eighth commandment, or the law
of chastity. This is a hard saying but
it comes from tlie highest and holiest
authority given to men, and morally
speaking, these who do remarry are
held responsible for their infraction
ot' this commandment by the great
Judge of the Universe. There is no
way in wnich to explain away the
statement, for it is made in plain lan¬
guage, with no qualifying statements
before or fcfter, and we cannot but
believe that the ministers or civil of¬
ficer who knowingly remarries a per¬
son who has been divorced is also
held respoonFible for his share of the
transaction as well as the parties are
themselves.
We know that this is a seemingly
harsh statement, and criticism but it
is the judgment of One before whom
in the final experience of every per¬
son acts in this life will be judged
according to the highest and most
perfect standard of rectitude, and His
judgment has already been pronounc¬
ed upon the practice.
We believe if those who were di¬
vorced were not allowed to marry
again there would be a great many
less divorces in the country than
there are today, for a great many
of them are obtained that one or the
other may have the privilege of mar
t ying some one who is seemingly
more suited to their fancy. If the
right of remarriage were denied and
only one divorce could ever be ob¬
tained by one person it w r ould result
in thousands of separations being
averted and a great many less mar¬
riages of couples of which one or
the other has been divorced.—Ex.
8945.
Report of the condition of the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
at Covington, in the State of Georgia,
at the close of business, June 14, 1912
RESOURCES:
Loans and discounts, .. $123,768.84
Overdrafts, secured and un¬
secured............. 812.50
U. S. Bond® to secure circu¬
lation, ............ 40,000,.00
Premiums on U. S. Bonds, 600.00
Banking house, furniture and
fixtures,..........4,914.24
Due from National Banks (not
reserve agents,) .. .. 8,261.76
Due from approved Reserve
Agents........... 4,884.61
Checks and other cash items, 41.74
Notes of other National banks, 200.00
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents, .. .. 77.50
Lawful money reserve in bank
viz: specie.....$6,218.50
Legal tender notes, 200.00 $6,418.50
Redemption fund with U. S.
Treasurer. (5 per cent
of circulation,)...... 2,000.00
TOTAL.............$191,979.69
LIABILITIES:
Capital! stock paid in, .. $50,000.00
Surplus fund......... 3,350.00
Undivided profits, less ex¬
penses and taxes paid, 3,702.81
National Bank notes outstand
standing,.......... 39,000.00
Individual deposits subject to
check.............51,501.84
Ti m e certi f icates of deposit®, 19,386.54
Cashier’s checks outstanding, 38.50
Bills payable, including certi¬
ficates of deposits for bor¬
rowed money,...... 25,000.00
TOTAL,............$191,979.69
State of Georgia, County of Newton.
I, J. A. Cathey, cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
J. A.CATHEY, Cashier
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 24th day of June, 1912.
JNO. B. DAVIS,
Clerk Superior Court.
Correct—Attest:
E. W. FOWLER,
R. E. STEPHENSON.
N. Z. ANDERSON.
It’s awful tiresome for a woman to
live in a neighborhood where every¬
one is above suspicion.
MOSQUITO EXTERMINATION.
Mosquitoes, can be—indeed, are be¬
ing—eliminated from human expe¬
rience in the United States. The
“Jersey mosquito” is not the exclu¬
sive property of that commonwealth
alone; it breeds in the saT-water
marshes all the way from Massachu¬
setts to Florida, wherever a fresh¬
water stream dilutes the ocean salti¬
ness sufficiently to attract the mos¬
quito Mosquitoes of the salt-waiter
group are not disease breeding, how T -
e\er, though more intensely annoy¬
ing than others. The Anopheles, the
one which spreads malaria, and the
Stegomyia, which conveys yellow fe¬
ver, propagate in fresh water, in
slagnau 1 pools, even in standing wa¬
ter in houses. The greater number
of species seldom travel more than
a few undred yards from their orig¬
inal breeding places and, away from
salt marshes, most places are locally
infested; these facts place the prob¬
lem of mosquito extermination
squarely before the. individual house¬
holder and the community immediate¬
ly interested.
Most mosquitoes—certainly those
of the anopheles tribe, in which the
female of the species is *ar more
deadly than the male—are active on¬
ly alfter dark. To rid a house of
them, one must fumigate with py
rethrum powder or some other sub¬
stance that will make a dense smoke,
taking care that no mosquitoes are
allowed to lurk in places remote to
which tlie fumes have not access. A
pound of pyrethrum is necessary for
every thousand cubic feet of interior
space. Screens, unless absolutely
tight, with a mesh of twenty to the
inch, are useless against mosquitoes.
According to the Journal of the
American Medical Association, the
only means of permanently prevent¬
ing mosquitoes is the destruction of
their breeding places, which may be
anywhere that water can accumulate
and stand for ten days or more. It
is very well to drain marshes, ponds
fountains and wet places in lawns
and gardens; but extermination will
not be thorough and effective unless
one realizes that no body of water
can be too small for a. mosquito nur¬
sery. Myraids may breed in pud¬
dles by the roadside, in little-used
horse troughs; in chicken pans in the
poultry yard; in water cups standing
on the grindstones; in water that
accumulates in furrows in gardens or
fields, especially in clayey soil; in
water pitchers in unused guest room;
in vases in which water has not fre¬
quently been changed; in discarded
t'n cons in back yards; in sewer ba¬
sins.—in fact, in any place where a
pint of water is allowed to stand.
Since mosquitoes breed only in the
standing water, to eliminate them it
is necessary simply to Tnd and to
(Train or to oil all the possible breed¬
ing places.—Monticello New®.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
All a man seems to need to get
the big head is a little brain.
A man can be a fairly good citi¬
zen as long as he’s sick abed.
The enthusiastic voter wouldn’t
be if he knew what it was about.
Being a snob is so natural to most
people they think it’s everybody
else.
A millionaire dosen’t need to care
whether he looks like one or not.
The best thing about an artistic
temperament is not to have it in the
family.
Some people make a lot of money
pretending to show others how to
make it.
The reason it takes a woman so
long to condole with another is it
wouldn’t if she meant it
The more a man talks about him¬
self the more disgusted you get that
it isn’t about yourself.
Some men are so lucky that when
anybody wants to borrow from them
they havn’t a cent.
A fool always has the advantage
of having nothing expected of him
that he can’t make good on.
NOTICE, TAX PAYERS.
The Slaite and County Tax Books
for 1912 will close on July 1st. Those
who have failed to give in would do
well to attend to this matter at once,
as it is necessary that all returns are
In by that time.
J. F LUNSFORD,
Tax Rec’r. Newton County.
Regular Communica¬
tion, Golden Fleece
Lodge, No. 6, F. &
A. M.
1st and 3rd Friday evening in
| each month, at 7:30. Duly quaildfiod
I brethren invited in meet with us.
A. S. HOPKINS W. M.
J. W. PEEK, Secretary.
MONEY TO LOAN AT 7% PER
cent on Farm Lands, with liberal
prepayment privileges. The above
per cent includes all expenses to
borrower in getting loan. J. C.
KNOX, Atty’., Covington, Ga. — tf.
[announcements.
FOR JUDGE.
To the Voters of the Stone Moun¬
tain Circuit: kind
At the solicitation of many
friends throughout the Circuit, I
hereby announce that I will be a
candidate for re-election as judge
of the Stone Mountain Circuit, sub¬
ject to tlie action of the Democratic
F Da rty Respectfully,
L S. ROAN.
FOR SOLICITOR.
I hereby announce myself a candi¬
date for the office of Solicitor Gener¬
al of the Stone Mountain Circuit,
subject to the action of the Democrat
ic primaries. Having had only a
portion of a term, 1 would naturally
like to have a full term, and will
appreciate the support of the people
of the circuit, Feb. 5, 1912.
C. S. REID.
FOR STATE SENATOR.
I hereby announce myself a candi¬
date for "the State Senate, subject
to the white Democratic primary.
Suffice it to say in this informal an¬
nouncement that all reports to the
effect that I have left Newton Coun¬
ty are absurd. Any further rumors
alleging my removal from e county
or even contemplated removal will be
equally absurd and purely for politi¬
cal effect.
A. II. FOSTER.
I am a candidate before the voters
of the county for State Senator from
the 27th Senatorial district. If elec¬
ted will give my best service to the
people of tlie district and the state.
Will appreciate your support for the
very responsible trust. Respt.
J. W. KING.
I hereby announce myself as a can¬
didate from the 27th Senatorial Dis¬
trict, for State Senator from Newton
county, subject to the action of the
State Democratic primary. I will
appreciate any and all support given
me, and promise to represent the
best interest of my country without
favor or affection to any party or
parties. I will later outline my plat¬
form to the people, that they may
know where I stand.
F. D. BALLAIU).
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
To The Voters of The County:
This is my formal announcement
that I am a candidate for represen¬
tative from Newton County in the
general assembly of Georgia, subject
to the Democratic primary. Hav¬
ing spent all my life in newspaper that
work in Newton county, I feel I
have practically had my finger on
the pulse of the majority, and be¬
lieve that I can represent them to
their satisfaction, if elected. I will
sincerely appreciate the support of my
friends and everyone who can con¬
scientiously vote for me, assuring
thorn that my earnest effort will be
to protect their interests a" all times.
Very truly,
LON L. FLOWERS.
To the Voters of Newton County:
At the solicitation of my many
friend®, I hereby announce myself as
a candidate for the legislature, sub¬
ject to the action of the democratic
primary. I will, sometime in the fu¬
ture discuss before the people, some
of the important issues that are vi¬
tal to the people in every county and
the Great State of Georgia. I will
greatly appreciate any support given
in the coming election and pledge
faithful and efficient service, if I am
elected.- JOSIAH C MORGAN.
To the Voters of Newton County: —
I hereby announce as a candidate
for your suffrage for the office of
representative in the general assem¬
bly of Georgia, subject to the action
of the democratic primary to be held
this year. I assure you that I will
appreciate the 1 1 nor of jour vote and
f e ected wi',1 do in/ best to hono
you, the county and the office.. Will
say that I have no pet schemes oi
special legislation in view nor do 1
represent any faction in Georgia pol¬
itics, but desire solely to be your
servant, and look after your interest
at all times. Respectfully,
ERNEJ3T E PARKER.
Star Lodge No. 164 I. O. O. F.
Regular meeting every 2nd and 4th
Thursday night. Degree work every
meeting. Visiting brothers condially
invited to meet with us.
C. A.SOCKWELL, N. G.
A. H. MILNER, Rec. Sect.’v
TO CHICKEN FANCIERS—I HAVE
the very best Barred Plymouth and
White Leghorn Eggs for sale. I
took special care in mating. For
the next 30 days only, I can furnish
you at $1.00 for 15. Always fresh.
B. BOORSTIN, at Louis Stein’s
Our new Spring and
Summer T a i 1 o r i n g
books has arrived and
same big values as we
offer you in other lines
fit styles quality work¬
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Yours Truly
J. I. GUINN.
First Class Laundry
I am representing “The Troy” Steam Laundry of Atlanta * and
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Prices: 2 cents for collars, 4 cents for cuffs and any old shirt
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best dryer and the necessary tinting
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Wo also have a full stock of best
grade White Lead, Tinting Colors, Wall
Finishes and all kinds of Varnishes.
Agents for the celebrated
Spence-Kellog Linseed Oil
Stephenson
Company
Phone 16 Covington, (in.
Model N. Ford Runabou!
For Sale. Car is in good condition aid
price reasonable.
WICK PORTER, Porterdale, Ga.
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