The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-10

How no KEEP CmrmnS HEuTHT.--
The mortality among the children in
our cities MS we'll rs in the country, il
sad TO contemplate Is there any ne
csssity for this? Are all these child
ren sent into the world TO be thus ear
" cut down ? Are not nine ont of ten
of these early deaths the result of igno-
rance? What parents ever lost a
child, except by accident, without
thinking
"If l had treated it differently, it
would not have died p The loss Of
our own three frss-born has led us to
think much upon this topic, and three
almost always healthy living ones are
evidences that our studies on the sub
Jet have not benin vain. Few hints on
the topic may not be without use.
Next to securing plenty of sound
sleep, or rather before it, we place the
proper preparation Of food The kind
of food they eat is not of half so much
consequence as the manner of its
preparation. Give child hard
apple and let him swallow it in pieces
from the size of large pea upward.
The result will be, that the Jumps will
be partly worn off by the coats of the
stomach, and partly dissolved by the
gastric Juice; but after time, the re-
naming portion of the humps viii he
forced down into the intestines and go
through the length of fifteen to twenty
feet, producing at least gripping and ir-
ratation all the way if not diarrhma or
dysentery But first scrape or mash
the apple to fine pulp, and it may
I then be eaten with impunity, and With
benefit, if ripe or nearly So
Feed u child on boiled potatoes cut
up, or on potatoes coarsely mashed
and fried in fat, and you will be pretty
sure to find more or less of Jumps Of
potatoes remaining undigested. How
can it be otherwise than that these
Jumps must have produced irritation
in the intestines. But mash the same
potatoes finely before feeding them,
and then the fine material Will be di
gested and afford nutriment instead of
giving uneasiness "under the apron"
The same holds true Of most meats
Cut up fiine--as fine as shot almost
they will be digested. and produce
nourishment; while if fed in coarse
pieces, they viii lie in. the stomach like
Il meat poultice on the outside, the
cause OF uneasiness if not of inhmma-
ton. Feed raisins and nuts. TO child
reu, and unless very strong and vigo-
rous, the chances are that they will in
duce immediate sickness or a weakened
J system, liable to be affected by the first
change of heat and cold
Chop these same raisins or nuts fine
ly, reducing them almost 10 powder,
and they may be eaten in moderate
quantity with impunity. These re-
marks apply to all kinds Of food, and,
in measure, to grown people as well
as to children. EaT .sB
Many persons are over nice or any,
ious as to what their children sat, and
often reduce them to skeletons, or un-
fit them for a vigorous resistance of
colds and malaria diseases, by feeding
them on toast or rice, weak Cruel, &c.
Give them, rather, good supply OF
hearty food finely reduced that it will
be quickly digestedin the stomach, and
they will grow vigorous and be able
to withstand the changes of climate,
and the exposures to which they, are
ever liable. Mothers, consider these
things, and see if they are not true and
in accordance with reason. -. fmericap
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