English: Left: A Lapland baby, Right: Italian woman and child
Identifier: pediatrics1319unse (find matches)
Title: Pediatrics.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Pediatrics Children Infants Pediatrics Disease Disease
Publisher: New York : Van Publishing
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
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Lapland Mother and Child the breast, around under her arms and the ends are tiedunderneath the child. Thus the weight comes upon her shoul-ders, chest, back and hips, while allowing both arms free tocarry freight. This is the method usually adopted by theSlavonic and Polish mothers. I o PEDIATRICS The Lapland mother, here shown, was a member of asmall colony imported by Uncle Sam to introduce the breed-ing of reindeer in Alaska. There were about fifteen in theparty, and this woman had two children, the younger she car-ried in this queer looking combination of cradle and sled,which she could carry either across her back, after the mannerof a quiver with arrows, or else drag along over the snow asa sled. The picturesque costume was made of furs and skins,while the cap was brilliant with fancy-dyed leather; the large
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Lapland Baby Italian Woman and Child knife and key that hung from the girdle was undoubtedly theprototype of the modern society girls chatelaine. The baby,clad in furs suitable for a cold climate, was protesting mostvigorously against his environment. The elder child had that serious, prematurely-old look, socommon among children brought up in rigorous climates. Quite naturally, the woman from sunny Italy, accustomedas she is to carrying jugs of water and heavy loads of freight PEDIATRICS ii nicely balanced on her head, might sometimes balance a baby,crib and all in this manner. The Italian baby, accustomed early to the wide bandagewith which he is enveloped, somewhat after the manner of amummy, seems contented under any circumstances. He sel-dom cries, not even if carried like a shawlstrap by one of thefolds of his binder, or under the arm like a a golf bag, or stoodin a corner like a bundle of sticks. When it is realized thathis parents cannot talk if prevented from gesticulating by
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