Practical Talks on the Care of Children (1922)

In preparing for book form these chapters which first appeared in The Delineator, The Designer and The Ladies Home Journal, the author has kept in mind and has endeavored to answer personal questions which have come to her from thousands of mothers throughout this country and Canada. One of these chapters alone after appearing in a magazine brought to the author's desk no less than eight hundred letters in a single month. The nature of these letters has led her to believe there is a definite need for a book describing some of the safest and sanest teachings of physicians, nurses and teachers (who rank among the highest authorities) in a manner so clear and concrete that the least experienced person may find them practical. For information, assistance and criticisms of the finished chapters, the writer is indebted to many physicians, who have given freely from their experience and thought, among them being:—

Doctors Charles Hendee Smith, Menas S. Gregory, Charles Dana, Charles Kerley, Virgil P. Gibney, John E. Weeks, Alan De Forest Smith, T. Stuart Hart, Edward H. Rogers, George Huston Bell, William H. Park, Abraham Zingher and Frederick H. Martin (Doctor of Oratory). It is with pleasure that I avail myself of the opportunity to acknowledge the interest and assistance of these physicians. Particularly, do I wish to thank Doctor Charles Hendee Smith for his cheerfully given advice and assistance in preparing the chapter, "Diet Schedules and Food Formulas," and for his preparation in full of the chapter "How to Make a Formula."

I am also under deep obligation to my friend, Mrs. William Brown Meloney, for her kindly encouragement and helpful suggestions. The frontispiece is the work of Mr. Emil Fuchs, the noted sculptor and artist. To Mr. Fuchs I extend my thanks and appreciation for his generous permission to use it.