The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-09-04
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Eds. Emery's Journal Of Agriculture:
Treatmcnt Of Children.
ny MRS. =. D. GAGE.
Treatment of children" cries out
Mrs. Knowcnough, "who wants to know
anything more than is known now.
am sure l don't know nothing else.
have been at il ever since I can remem.
der, and am likely to keep on As long as
live, and if experience will do any good,
| ought to be perfect"
"And has your treatment been sue
cessful, Mrs Knowenough9 Have you
been able to keep all the bright buds of
promice wise Father permitted to open
upon your bosom!"
"Well, a. to that, can't say 50 much.
! was the oldest Of twelve, 20 you may
guess l had some nursing to do. The
first thing remember was sitting in the
foot of the cradle, to rock my little
brother, and 50 | kept on. l have had
nine myself, and now / have swarms of
grand children"
"Did your mother raise her twelve
children to be men and women?"
"Oh no! There was but FIVE out of
the whole twelve that ever lived to be
twenty years old. Four of them died in
their infancy and one at four years old
and one at ten."
"That seems sad mortality in one
family"
at was indeed. It seemed almost to
kin my father. He was so fond of his
children. just as quick as anything was
the matter, be would be of for the doc
tor. | have known him put of in the
night when it was raining and blowing,
when there was nothing the matter bu. a
little bad cold or collie, and there was not
a mite of need Of his going"
Did you raise your miner"
"Oh." said the good lady with deep
sigh, l did not. l have only four now.
The Lord took the rest early in life.
lost three babies. One got burned to
death and one was drowned. Ihaye had
heap of trouble in my day"
And how about your grand chill
drenl"
"Well, they don't seem right healthy,
that's fact. Martha Jane has buried
two, and Ellen you know lost her young
est last summer, and both the boys have
lost one piece, and Cyrus's youngest
think wont live long. There has been
five deaths and only three living. 1t
does seem too bad, don't it," aud the
old lady trotted dear little boy of three
months old upon her knee rs if he was a
billet of wood, and looked down into his
face with tender solicitude.
That seems very healthy child"
Yes, he looks 50; but he's not
He has terrible fits of collie every day !"
And what do you do for himl"
"Well, we've tried everything; catnip
tea, sweet flag, SCOT and brandy toddy,
but it all would not do, and we got the
doctor TO make up something, aud that
did pretty well for few days and then
that would not do, and now We have
just been compelled to give him parego.
ric and Batenlan's drops and such things,
to keep him along"
Do you not fear to injure him,"
Not bit, my mother brought her
children up on such things, and l always
used them, and | never could see they
did one bit of HARM"
But you just told me that your moth.
er's children were not brought up, that
they more than half died young, and the
same with your own, and also with your
grandchildren"
But every one of them had some
special diseases. Summer complaint has
been the worst Of all. and measles, and
hopping cough, aud scarlatina. These
little simple medicines taken for collie
had nothing to do with it. They were
nearly al hearty children and bid as fai,
to live till about the time they died a,
any children you ever saw. But wher
disease took hold Of them, they had tt
60. It was the Lords will"
How many Of the whole number
specified died in infancy, or under yea1
old!"
"Lot me see. Mothers four, my
three, and the childrcn's four make elcv
en-
"Oh! what a waste Of life. What
waste Of sorrow and care, what vast,
Of all the best loves and energies o.
life"