The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-17
HOW MANAGED MY CHILDREN
FROM
INFANCY TO MARRIAGE.
BY
MRS. WARREN,
AUTHOR OF
"Bow l MANAGED MY HOUSE ON TWO HUN
DRED POUNDS A YEAR." "COMFoRT
FOR SMALL INCOMES" ETC.
CHAPTER II.

tcOsrNUED FROM sAruRDAr'sEvESze rELreRApn.1
CHAPTER IL
The Group and its Treatment Teaching Infants
to Walk-How Their Legs Become Crooked
Nervous Children Ventilation and Light Neces-
sary for Them
Our home was getting to be q very pleasant
one, with one exception. l kept the babe up
till late instead of putting him to rest early, as
my friend had strictly enjoined me. There was
selhshness on my part in this; the child amused
me on the evenings when my husband was
necessarily absent, and the consequence was
broken rest to us all till past midnight. Seeing
evil conseqences arising, | endeayored to
remedy 1t. But from manageable infant three
months had converted him into an obstinate
child, who knew his power, aud was fully deter
mined to exercise it. NV husband counselled
brnness, aud dreaded to disobey, notwlth-
standing the passionate screams of the child.
Evening after evening sat beside his cot, un-
willing to leave him, and II for moment was
deluded into the belief of his sleeping, a sudden
fhnging OF of the clothes and a sharp cry
revealed my mistake.
'Mary, you must break him in" said my hus-
band one evening. Just put him to bed at
seven o'clock and leave him."
This was fatal advice, but / followed it, Ny
heart bled while heard the screams, but my
| husbands stern look kept me from going to him.
| After time all was STILL went on tiptOe to
| the room. My child was asleep, but he had
| thrown his bedclothes off, although the night
was cold and frosty. hastened 10 replace them,
and the tears we're yet undried on his cheeks.
| 1t were vain to tell how reproached myself for
| my babes sorrow. 1t was who had caused IL.
Had his management been different, he would
| not have suffered.
He awoke on our going to bed, and, taking
him up to feed him, observed that he had q
little cough. which l had not noticed before.
| However, nothing was thought of it, and he
| laid down again. Towards morning we were
| startled by most extraordinary noise some
thing between cough and the crow of chicken,
| lrnfx flann not hat &c
| work to spring out of bed but the child did not
| awake, and was quiet otherwise that that his
| little arms were tossed outside the clothes, and
the flush was deeper. He breathed, too, hard
| and slowly.
Il am afraid that Dot" lit was his pet nancy
"has taken cold, Willie,"l said to my doing
| husband. "Didut you hear his cough?"
"Nonsense; heard nothing 20 peculiar that
it should frehten You."
altered the position of baby's head, and he
seemed to breathe more easily, but there was
| no more rest for me. AS soon as could / rose
and took him. Alas alas 1t was the dreaded
Group, which had been warned was so fatal.
Medical assistance was speedily summoned.
| Oh the terrible cough which rang through my
ears like brazen trumpet, then again like a
crow, hoarse and discoL ant; and there sat,
holding the little sufferer but poweress to give
relief. When the doctor arrived he looked very
serious, and said:-
81 dare say he will do very well by-and-by if
no symptom OF cough appeared before last
| night. GIVE me sponge, or two Will be best,
| about the size OF my fist, and some hot water,
as hot as can bear my hand in it. Now then
bare mis- throat, but keep some flannel well
| round him."
The doctor dipped the sponge into the hot
water, then squeezed it half dry and applied 1t
to the throat, and had a second sponge ready
the moment one was taken off. He continued
this tor about twenty minutes, till the throat
| was quite red. and the child broke out into
| profuse perspiration. which was encouraged oy
giving him hot milk and water. The next cough
was not so ringing as before, and the breathing
became less hard. That he suffered less was
evinced by his falling into deep sleep.
Don't remove him from this room, Mrs. Nor
| ton, and keep II TO the temeprature of sixty-ive
| desTees, or little more. Keep flannel wrapped
about him, and don't put calico or the like out
side, but 1t he requires more warmth wrap
| small blanket round him. i cannot be home
for iour OF FIVE hours, perhaps longer. Mean
time send tor this" (and he wrote, Ipecacuanha
wine, three drachms; syrup of tolu five drachms;
! water, one ounce. MIX well and shake 1t before
giving him small teaspoonful every ten min
utes until 1t produces sickness and then every
| two hours), ''and then think the danger will
be over Don't have nay M yisfGTS GSisr aere to-day and
you are not aware that Group is decidedly infec-
tious, and there is danger of one child after
another falling victim to the malady. Lay
the boy carefully in his cot: it will not do for
| you TO be hanging over HIM and inhalinR mis-
| breath Good morning.
"But if he should be worse, doctor, while you
II do not think he will be; but If he should
| give him warm bath, and be careful in taking
| MIN up TO wipe him very quickly and wrap him
| in flannel and put him between blankets IN his
cll. think he win do very well as it is.n
| When the doctor returned some hours later
my darling was decidedly better.
"You see, my dear lady, that we took the dis
ease IN time and in its first stage. Had there
been any delay you would have seen a very dif.
| ieTent appearance In his countenance and In
stead OF the hoaIse crow-which, ho weyer is
| not always TO be depended on as symptom of
| the Group, as similar one generally acconna-
| mes the hr5t stage of the meases-you woild
| have scarcely heard the cough or the voice
| while wheeling respiration pale and mottIe2
skin, languld eyes. but with their pupils dilated
and extreme thirst would have marked a second
advance OF the disease, and state from which
| lew children recover. There Is third STAGE
whlch, when exhibited, always terminates IN
| death. - -
"In all attacks of Group the moment II Ia even
suspected, medical advice must be obtained
Four days from the commencement of the attack
till ITS fatal termination is the brief space aIlot
ted for the infants life. do really wish mothers
were educated to know the symptoms of chill
| dren's diseases, and in the knowledge of annIv.
ing simple alleviations. Many a child,s life
might thus be saved, for medical man IA mot
always on the spot; and sometimes cannot ~
tend for hours. Meanwhile the mischief has
become irreparable; and too often the doctor is
| blamed, or confidence is lost because he cannot
| work lmpossibilities. Hundreds of children
owe their deaths to the ignorance Of their
And you think my baby will live aoctOrgn
II see no reason to think the contrary; but he
might take turn tor the worse In the evening"
| which perhaps will last till MIDNIGHT and tb7s
L Of sI,o.