An information-packed article about your baby's care, feeding, growth and fun.
What you may not know
about your baby's eyes
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Gift ideas with
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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.
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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