East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-11-25
su2orsatlons About Newborn Chill


dren
1t is unlucky to weigh them. If
you do they will probably die, end at
any rate, will not thrive. / have
caused great concern in the mind Of
worthy old monthly nurse by insisting
on weighing mine. They have, how
ever, all done very we'll, with the OK
ception Of one, he weighing Of whom
was accidentally forgotten to be per
formed.
The nurses always protested against
the weighing, thosgh in timorous
sort OF way; saying that no doubt it
was all nonsense, but still it had bet
ter not be done.
1t is not good for children to sleep
upon boncs-that is, upon the lap
There seoms to be some sense IN this
notion; it is doubtless better for
child to be supported throughout its
whole length, instead Of hanging down
its head or legs, as it might probably
so Il sleeping in tho lap.
Hesiod, in his "Works and Days"
forbids children Of twelve months or
twelve years old to be placed upon
things not to DO moved-which some
have understood to mean sepatchers; if
this is right perhaps there is some
connection between his injunction and
that which condemns the sleeping upon
bones, though tho modern bones are
those of the living, and not of the
dead.
Cats suck the breath Of infants and
80 Kill them. This extremely unphil-
osophical notion of cats preferring ex-
hausted to pure air, is frequently a
cause of great annoyance to poor
pussy, when after having established
herself close to baby, in snug warm
cradle, she finds herself ANONYMOUSLY
hustled out, under suspicion of COM
passing the death of her quite new ac-
quaintance, who is not yet big enough
TO pull her tail.
When children first leave their
mothers room, they must go up stairs
before thoy go down stairs, otherwise
they will never rise i'll the world.
OF course it frequently happens that
thoro is no Cup stai's," that the moth
cr's room is do highest in the house.
In this the difficulty is met by the
Nurse setting chair and stepping
upon that with the child in her arms
as she leaves the room. l have seen
this done.
A mother must not go outside her
own house until she goes to be
"churched." OF course, the principle
OF this is d good one. 1t is right un-
der such circumstances. The first
use n woman should mako of her re-
stored strength, should be to go &c
church and thank God for her recov.
cry; but in practice this principle
sometimes degenerates into nero su
perstition.
If you rock an empty cradio, yol
will rock new baby into it. This i
n superstition in rHdi oJsorraRti, and
is quite curious to see the face of ALARM
with which poor woman, with he
s}nth baby in her arms, will dasl
across the room to prevent the 'baby
but-one" from engaging in such {
dlngerops amusement as rocking thu
empty cradle.
In connection with this subject, ]
may be mentioned that there is
widely-spread notion among the poor
OF classes, that rice, as an article o
food, prevents the increase of tho pop
ulation. How the populousness o
India and China are accounted for OF
this theory, j cannot say; probaol
those who entertain il never fully re
alizo tho existence of foreign parts,
but il is certain that there was no
long ago a greatoutcry against the CIV
ing Of rice to tho poor people under tn
Poor Law, as il was said t9 be don
With o purpose.