Crying baby, Elgin, Illinois, 1906
St. Charles (Illinois) Chronicle,2 February 1906
Headline: Baby Thrives as a Spartan
A husky baby, exercising his lungs in the open air, convinced the law, as represented by a policeman, that the fresh air treatment and physical culture are good even for youngsters a year old. Neighbors had complained that Mrs. Jacob Rath, who lives in Raymondstreet, Elgin, was exposing her child for an hour on the lawn every day and that its wails disturbed them. The policeman saw that the infant was well covered, heard the mother’s explanations and departed.
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