The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-15

Trial with First Baby-Infants' Food--How 20
Increase Child suferings when Cutting It's
Teeth-The Treatment Of Infants when Sick
Nurse Adams,
was married In early life, scarcely eighteen,
my husband being a collateral descendant OF
one OF the Oldest county families in England; on
my mothers SIDE, in the genealogical record
which some of the family possessed, her descent
could be traced back to the days of chlvalry.
do not mention this in any pride of ancestry
but still it had permanent influence on me.
suppose many OF my ancestors had trouble,
and certainly poverty; but no crime, as the
world terms It, had branded their names or talr
fame. The first time heard OF this was but a
wee child, slckly, puny, and palhd, giving con-
slant trouble by my delicacy OF constitution;
bat rhe story sank deep in my heart, and new
spirit seemed born within me-a spirit which
would now infinitely rather see my children
dead at my feet than hear that they had been
guilty of debasing sin. God grant thai this
pride OF heart be not punished yet before die :
Narrow, indeed, Is the path in which mother
must walk-not making her child an IDOL to be
worshipped, or toy OF caprice. SoOery
orderly, and in the love OF her Maker must she
journey, knowing that she holds IN her hand
and cherishes at her breast an immortal spirit.
Through her the germ OF future happiness or
misery has budded; through her blessing or d
curse has been cast upon the world; on earth
she has created either a follower Of Christ or
companion of hends.
Strange to say, the influence Of the mother
II.
it behooves her to keep herself from vexatious
cares and perplexities, even as she would shun
pestilence To do this requires an almost super
human effort, to be obtained only by prayer for
help accompanied by an earnest will TO accom-
plish. Another thing, too, which Influences a
child's future, is the selndulgenCe which
au eXpectant mother permits herself. Under
the plea of delicacy OF constitution and
want of strength, exercise is avoided, and
stlmulants resorted to, and continued till the
chldspirit, sent from the hand of God, appears
on the earth III human hesh, corrupt with the
wees and tains of the mother.
After the fifth month, ,then.until the ninth, exer-
cise ofmb, not the abuse of exercise is as neces-
sarY to the future comfort OF the mother as it
IS 10 the well-being of the child. 'I am too
weak, too i'll to walk" are words which have
put more guineas into doctors purses, created
more difficult births, beTeaved more husbands
of their wives and more children of their
mothers, than any other omission OF act result
ing from ignorance or idleness.
Before the birth OF my first child was irri-
table, peevish, and selfindulgent; to work was
a burden; all my baby-clothes we're put out TO
make, for did not know how to cut them ont,
or make them up. There was the first wrong
step. My husbands income was even less than
TWO hundred year; but then, what mattered?
Delicacies we could dispense with; we had
between us wealth of affection for each other,
and had the magnificent sum Of one hundred
pounds presented to me as marriage Gift by
my godmother A thought of prudence and
industry never entered my mind; the needle
work Ia my moIhers lamny had always been
put out, and why not IN nine, young BRIDES
first home? So / let nine months g ide away.
l lay ON the sofa all day under pretense of weak.
ness-indeed in the latter part of the time. 10
move from one room to the other was journey
hardly TO be accomplished. / could eat and
drink well enough, and often idly desired dam
ties which the great love of my husband readily
procured. l do not wish to infer that ali un-
gratifed longings during this period are the
result of idleness and an ill-governed mind.
This Is not always the case; but mine were so'
and 1t Is of myself and my experiences l am
now writing.
The consequences Of my continued lying late
In bed, keeping late hours at night ana tau PeE,