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An information-packed article about your baby's care, feeding, growth and fun. What you may not know about your baby's eyes SPORTS PIGSKIN PEEWEES .," a 5. n A T7 Gift ideas with Heinz screw-cap jars '1- f; What chance you'll have twins? i If your baby's eyes cross very often after he's six months old, don't assume he'll outgrow it; tell your doctor. Eye muscle control develops at different ages, but most six-month-olds can focus those bright eyes straight at you most of the time. It's nice to know that certain visual difficulties can be corrected quite easily with prompt attention in baby's earliest years. Nature normally cleans your little one's eyes without help, but you can safely clean eyelid corners. Use moist cotton, wiping out ward from the inside corner. Remember that baby's eyes need practice plenty of new and interesting things to look at. But when you hang "look toys" over a baby's crib, keep them at arm's length from his eyes. One good turn deserves another! When baby masters the roll-over trick, he can flip over faster than you can catch him. Your big bed isn't safe, but baby considers his crib too confining. So now's when he'll happily spend time in his play pen. How does it happen that Heinz develops so many "Firsts" in baby foods? Exclusive flavors such as Junior Egg Noodles and Beef; Spaghetti, Tomato Sauce and Meat; Vegetables and Ham; Vegetables, Egg Noodles and Chicken (or Turkey)? One reason is the expert way Heinz scientists and chefs work together in Heinz magnificent new Research Center to create tasty and nutritious recipes for your baby. Using ultramodern facilities, they develop the kind of food your baby loves, with quality you can trust. What else are Heinz Baby Foods' new screw-cap jars good for aside from being such a cinch to open and reseal? "They're great," writes a Connecticut mother, "to fill with Christmas gift preserves, little one meal servings of homemade jams and marmalades. Hooray for Heinz for bringing screw-cap jars to baby foods!" Heinz was first now has most baby foods in screw-cap jars. Safety is your first concern for baby's first Christmas tree (and all those to follow!). Make sure you get a fireproofed tree and a sturdy non tip stand. See that lights and electric sockets are in good condition. Keep breakable ornaments off low branches where baby might be tempted to taste them! Teach your baby to like many vegetables it's so easy to get in a rut and serve the same few favorites. Here's a partial list of delicious Heinz Strained Vegetables has your baby tried them all? Squash, Creamed Spinach, Creamed Peas, Green Beans, Carrots, Sweet Pota toes, Beets, for example. Twins occur once in every 90 pregnancies. Your chance of having twins is greater if you're in your late thirties, if you've already had sev eral children, or if you or your husband have twins in the family. In the United States, about 125 sets of twins are born every day. : n First with screw-on caps HEINZ Baby Foods Over 100 strained and junior varieties ...including meats, cereals, juices Thanks to a Texas mother, these half -pints fill the Milk Bowl with a rich combination of fun and chanty by OREN ARNOLD Perhaps the most fascinating football bowl game in America is played not in the Rose, Cotton, or Sugar Bowl , but in a bowl which a young mother organized for youngsters in rural Texas. Played each December during the past decade, it's called the Milk Bowl game because no player may exceed 14 years in age or 100 pounds in weight. In just 10 years, it has achieved such prestige that many distinguished Americans help sponsor it, and it is nationally broadcast. The yearly contest matches the best small-fry team in Texas (chosen by elimination) against the best from out-of-state and teams from as far away as Germany and Japan have petitioned to play. All the proceeds go to a charity for children. The Milk Bowl originated when Mrs. Elizabeth Weafer and her family were "stuck away off" in Gause, Tex., population 500, be cause husband Eugene was the new schoolteacher there. She found no outlets for her energetic boys, so she asked her husband to introduce football. He had never coached, nor even played, but Elizabeth bought him a how-to book and marked off a field in a cow pasture. By October that year, 1949, he had put together a ragtag and shoeless team which had no opponents to play. Elizabeth wrote a challenge to every school within range, and Bryan, a city of 18,000, condescended to take on the Gause kids as an easy "breather." The scared country boys, who had never even seen a football game before, grimly went out and stunned their city opponents, 24-0! News of the victory aroused all of Texas. The country lads went on to clobber school after school so impressively that by late No vember they too had shoes to wear. Their best plays were dreamed up by Elizabeth at night: hidden ball tricks any coach would welcome. She herself watched all games from the side lines, usually with her baby on her hip. After that bang-up first season, the idea caught on fast. Elizabeth asked a radio station and two newspapers if they didn't think a Milk Bowl would be a good idea, and they backed her. Other agencies joined and in December, 1949, the first Bowl game was played at Cameron with the proud Gauslings in resplendent new uniforms, shoes and all. They showed a sophisticated confidence characteristic of all-stars when they roared onto the field and lost the game, 20-7! No matter. The National Milk Bowl had already caught the nation's fancy. Herbert Hoover wrote, offering help. So did J. Edgar Hoover, Red Grange, multimillionaire Hugh Roy Cullen, hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, comedian George Gobel, and many other national celebrities. One wealthy supporter was going to bring in the U. S. Marine Band to support his nephew's team in the Bowl, but Liz Weafer heard of it. "Put all that money in the Bowl charity fund for crippled children," she ordered, and shamed him into doing it. At another game, two wealthy fans each bet $1,000. She confronted them and said, "Gambling is sinful and illegal. To keep you men out of trouble, I'll just confiscate these bills for the crippled kids." They could only chuckle and say, "Yes, ma'am, of course that's the thing to do." Elizabeth gets no fee for her services, nor does anyone else, although the Bowl now requires many hours of work and she Family Weekly, December 6, 1959
