{"id":8905,"date":"2022-12-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2022-12-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:00:00","slug":"modernized-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/modernized-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernized Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1914-12-05\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\">Newark Evening Star, December 5, 1914<\/a>. By E. A. Brinistool.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>When my wife brought the baby up,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She followed modernized advice.<br\/>She sterilized each spoon and cup,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And fumigated all the ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Each toy and plaything \u2018round the place<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Received a boric acid bath\u2014<br\/>Yes, wife did rigidly embrace<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The so-called prophylactic path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The child received three baths a day<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In water which had been distilled<br\/>Wife clung to the new-fangled way\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All microbe larvae must be killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The picture books were clarified<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In royal antiseptic style<br\/>By hot air, purged and rarified<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Devoid of all bacilli vile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Yet our babe lacks the healthy look<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of that small filthy Bronson boy<br\/>Who plays down there beside the brook,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And makes mud pies with childish joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>His eyes shine like the stars at night<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He\u2019s dirty but is well and strong.<br\/>My wife declares he is a \u201cfright,\u201d<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yet, somehow, I fear she\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, December 5, 1914. By E. A. Brinistool. When my wife brought the baby up,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She followed modernized advice.She sterilized each spoon and cup,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And fumigated all the ice. Each toy and plaything \u2018round the place&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Received a boric acid bath\u2014Yes, wife did rigidly embrace&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The so-called prophylactic path. The child received three baths a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-e-a-brinistool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}