The wife considers the husband unreasonable and dishonorable. She declares that she has the heavier burden to bear, a sickly baby to tend day and night. What she does not realize is that the baby would not be sickly if the mother knew her job of motherhood as well as the father knows his trade of bread-winning. The law does not recognize indigestion in the family baby as a divorce cause, but any judge who has ever presided over what is known as a court of domestic relations will tell you that desertion, non-support, cruelty, and infidelity on the part of the husband can often be traced directly to the wailing of a baby or several babies, who would not wail if their mothers knew how to guard their digestion. Mothers are not altogether to blame for their inability to prevent digestive ailments in their babies. Generally, their own mothers did not understand this wonderful science of infant feeding, nor warn them of the pitfalls which yawn before the young mother who has not studied it. Even general practitioners have not placed great importance on the study of babies. They have had their hands full by doctoring grown-ups, who might have been healthy adults if properly started in life. After ushering the child into the world and pronouncing it sound, the average family physician has turned the baby over to the parents; and under their care it has remained until it developed some acute malady, when the doctor has reappeared on the scene. The cure of the malady, not its prevention, has long been the office of the family physician. They do it better in China, where physicians are paid only so long as the health of the family is good. The world has long proceeded on the theory that with the birth of the baby was born in the mother some heaven-sent knowledge of how to raise the baby. To be sure, she was taught to read and write and cook and sew, but there was no need to teach her how to feed her baby. By some mysterious process, God supplied that knowledge. That He did not is shown by the fact that twenty-five per cent. of the deaths in our country are of children under one year of age. Another mistaken belief about babies has been that they are born “delicate” or “strong”; and, as they are born, so must they live—that is, if they live at all! The delicate baby has been regarded as a cross, to be carried with patience and resignation. Mother trotted and dosed it by day; Father walked the floor with it by night; and the neighbors pitied them both. The idea that the poor little tot was born with the right to acquire strength and health was not preached: the thought of calling in science to transform the delicate baby into a strong one is comparatively new.