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Guide Junior's vocabulary
and you'll have no trouble

By JO LYNNE

When Junior’s vocabulary
fully—it is good to recall the

broadens suddenly—and color-
childhood adage: ‘‘Sticks and

stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”
Or, as one of the excellent series of pamphlets on the

special problems of children from
two to five, prepared by Nina Rid-
enour, in collaboration with Isabel
Johnson, puts it:

“You can say to yourself quite
truthfully, “This hurts me more
than it hurts him.’ These words
do not harm the child; this need
not be the beginning of a bad

habit; it is simply a phase which
most children go through.”

The reasons for the child’s sud-
denly adopting “skunk,” “louse,”

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“stinker” or worse (usually much
worse) can, range from a desire
to tease or use a new word in-
nocently to a real desire to get
back at someone, to let off steam
in words rather than physical ac-
tion.

Dr. Ridenour suggests that by
relaxing and acting wunworried,
you have gone 90 percent of the
way in handling the problem. And
with an unruffled attitude, you’ll
find yourself almost automatically
carrying out the following sugges-
tions: :

@® You will not scold or punish
the child for bad words because
you'll understand he is not being
bad. You'll try to have a sense
of humor—and avoid acting in
such a way as to emphasize the
importance of the words in his
mind.

@ You may decide to use the
same words back to him in a calm
unemotional way to make the
words seem less important. Or
ask him pleasantly but firmly not
to use the word again. You might
say, “Though we don’t mind it at

home, some people think little
children should not use words
like that.”

@ If a word or phrase or relig-
ous or racial prejudice is used,
there is a temptation to give a
lecture on tolerance. But the
child is too young for that. Simply
ask him not to use the word
because it hurts the feelings of
others. ‘

@ You might try playing with
the word until it loses: its sig-
nificance. If he says “lousy,” for
instance, say “bowzy, dowzy, etc.”

@ Show the child how-to coin
new words or give him long, hard
words as substitutes. One teach-
er suggested “shopple-pawed” and
“Czechoslovakia.”

At any rate, whatever you do,
you will want to experiment, al-
ways in a calm fashion. See what
works best with your youngster.

If the child is swearing because
he is angry, says Dr. Ridenour,
“remember that to express his

anger in words instead of actions
is a step forward—even though he
may not use the words you would
select for him. ... Be glad he
has reached this next stage in his
development. You would not
want him to remain inarticulate
all his life!”

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1948

HEALTH
Measles burn
up Vitamin C

By DR. DANIEL LONGPRE

When days become “dark and
dreary,” our young children, the
ones who did not have measles
before, will come back feverish
from school, sneezing, coughing
and with their eyes red as if
they had been crying. This is how
measles begins.

Measles is more prevalent and
more contagious than any other
infectious disease. Few children
escape from’ it. Adults who did
not develop it previously may
acquire it. During the last war
many Australian and New Zea-
lander soldiers and airmen got
it while training in Canada. It
may mean that measles is less
prevalent “down under” than here.

The characteristic trait of meas-
les is its red spotty eruption ap-
pearing at first on both sides of
the neck a little under the ears
and spreading a few hours after
to the face and all over the body
surface,

The cause of the measles is un-

known. It is thought to be a
virus. The first symptoms appear
after an incubation period of

thirteen days, that is thirteen

days after the contact. The
disease, if uncomplicated, lasts
about ten days.

* * *

During my university training
and in my first ten or fifteen years
of practice, measles was consider-
ed as a serious disease. In a
quarter of a century review, the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com-
pany’s statistics department ranked
it next to diphtheria in the deaths
caused between 1911 and 1935 by
the four principal contagious
disease.

But young doctors and nurses.

today must be under the impres-
sion that it is rather mild and in-
significant. The actual statistics
show that the ordinary Canadian
grippe is now far more dangerous
than measles, There are two
reasons for it. :

(a) The cyclical ups and downs
of the epidemics. We may be at
the bottom of such a cycle.

(b) The new drugs, sulphas
and penicillin, may help a great
deal in preventing the usual clas-
sical complications of measles such
aS pneumonias and _. broncho-
pneumonias, as well as mastoiditis
following untreated abcess of th
middle ears. ;

* * *

. I work in an-infants’ institution
near Montreal. Years ago during
an epidemic many children devel-
oped a secondary scurvy, though
every child had what we thought
to be a sufficient dose of Vitamin
Cc. Apparently that was not
enough. We had to double, and in
some cases to triple the : daily
ration of tomato juice. It seemed
as though measles was fast burn-
ing all the vitamin reserves of
the body. And the fact that we
give now great amounts of citrus
juice may also account for a ‘de-
crease in the severity of measles,
Complications of the eyes, some
of them very severe, were also
quite frequent. We hardly see
any anymore since Argyrol solu-
tions are used as routine.
General treatment: Daily luke-
warm baths, aspirin to relieve the
objective symptoms; 10 percent
solution Argyrol in the eyes and

the nose twice a day; light food;]}.

plenty of fluids, water and orange
juice; rest in bed, a dark room is
not necessary. To play safe—not
to cure mesles but to prevent
complications sulpha drugs are
advised.

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high prices and profiteering.

In A STATEMENT she
week, Mrs. E. A. Darville, president of the Non-Pensioned
Widows’ Association here, asserted that she was declining

an invitation to speak ata.
prices sponsored by the B.C.
Housewives’ Consumer  Associa-
tion because she felt that organ-
ization was controlled by “the
one political party which has
no real interest in anything other
than the creation of confusion
and dissension in this country.”,
Mrs.
to be “in complete sympathy with:
moves that will bring down the
cost of living,” but, she said,|
she could not see “how anything
concrete can be accomplished in
this direction by an organization
which has no logal or official
standing whatsover,” She contend-:
ed that every “registered legal.
women’s. organization in Canada,
belongs to the Canadian Associa-'
tion of Consumers,” which had
“already achieved concrete gains’
for the consumers of Canada,”
When I. read Mrs. Darville’s:

statement, which appeared in. the'}

press only a few hours before,
the start .of the meeting, I sat
down there and then and wrote
an.open letter. to her. And th
is what I said: ; :
iA. * «x * J ‘
DEAR MRS. DARVILLE:. I'm
sorry you felt obliged to resort:
to the kind of red-baiting poli-.
tics used by open enemies ° of’
the working people in’ order’ to:
excuse your failure to attend’a/
meeting to protest high. prices,
especially since you are opposed.
to high prices. The prominence
given to .your statement in. the
daily® press has ‘caused. many
housewives to wonder if. perhaps
it was motivated by politics very.
different from the .kind you dé-

nounce, the kind of politics, for

instance, that find the campaign,
against high prices most. embar-
rassing to the government’ and,
of course, the people’ who profit
by high prices. ‘

If you didn’t intend to create

Shoppers campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO—The Council
of Women Shoppers, spokesman
for housewives throughout the
city, has started off 1948 with a
program inteded:

e@ To lower the price of milk
for all school children from the
present cost of 6 cents a half
pint.

@ To bring Farmers Market
low. prices closer to home by
working out some arrangement
to bring vegetables and fruits
right into the neighborhood,

{for that organization. =
‘I spoke to two of them my, _

issued to the daily press this

protest meeting against high

this impression, it’s too bad you
did not attend the meeting. You
would have had an opportunity
to speak personally to those: wom-
en, mothers of families -most ‘of
them, ‘and their men whose ac-
tive. protest against high living

Darville professed herself| Costs expresses the great uneasi-

ness, anxiety and difficulty ‘ex-
perienced by virtually. all .work-
ing people..as the price of ne-
commodity., after another soars:
beyond their pay cheques. set
You might have learned
them that their main co
is not -whether this woman of
that is a member of the
or CCF, or the Liberal or Con+
servative parties, but whether sh¢
‘wants to see every family re
ceiving the things that are held
to be an essential part of our
Canadian way of life. :
| By attending the meeting you
‘would also have been able to
‘speak to some members of your
own Canadian Association of
‘Consumers. and.convince them of
ithe “concrete gains”

self as.they were signing the

ing for the return of price con

“We thought we’d come to your
meeting’ tonight as something
thas to be

‘taking any action,” they said to
me. ; : :
* * x
I HAVE no wish to fall into

ization against’ another and so
weakening a campaign that re-
quires the energies of both. It’s
plain that whatever the Cana-
‘dian Association of Consumers
may or may not have accom-
plished, it hasn’t succeeded in
modifying the government’s pol-
icy nor in halting the alarming
rise in prices, and that’s what
housewives want. You complain
that the B.C. Housewives Con-
sumer Association’s “contribution
in the past has been purely nega-
tive.” But I cannot see where
your own statement made any
positive contribution to the cam-
paign, such as you might have
made by attending the meeting
and telling those there what
plans the Canadian Association

an active protest.
Your very truly,
BG.

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