Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-04-03
Prom Hearth and Home.
How to Treat Babies.
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healthy children. They arc children Of
deficient brain power, Of diseased nor.
vous systems; children bcgotten Of 20.
bacco smoke, late hours, light lacinn.
and dyspcptic stomacbs. The father has
put his sons brain into his mecrscbaiun
aud smoked it out the mother has dril,.
blcd aud dribbled il away in balls and
operas. Two young people come to.
getber, both of them in state of half.
nervous arrangement. She can not live
without strong coffee: her hand trcn.
blcs, and she has a sinking at her stotn.
ach, when she first rises in the morning.
till she has taken cup OF strong coffee.
when she is primcd for the day. lie
can not study, or read, or perform auy
real mental labor, without tobacco. Boti,
are burning life's candle at both ends /:
both nrc "akeful and nervous, with weak
muscles and vibrating nerves. -s a
Two such persons unite in giving exist.
ence to II poor, hapless baby, who Is born
in such state of diseased nervous sensi.
bility that all the torccS Of nature are n
torture to it. "rhe fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children's tcetl, are
set on edge" What such children cry
for is neither cold nor hunger. but irre.
pressible nervous agOny-somrtimes from
tear, sometimes because every tlin,, In
life is too strong for them. and lars on
their poor weakened nerves. lust rs il
does on those of an invalid il, a low.
nervous fever. .f -
Now, the directions about putting n
child away alone to sleep, without rock.
ing or soothing, is good one only to,
robust aud healthy childrcn. For the
delicate, nervous kind have spoken Of,
it is cruel and it is dangerous Weknow
0,te authentic instance of mother who
was trained TO believe it her duty TO put
her infant to bed in lonely chamber and
leave it. Not daring to trust herself in
the ordeal, she put on her bonnet and
positively forbiddiig her servants to po
near the child, went out fer walk.
When she returned the child was still
and had been so for some time. She
went up TO examine. The child had
struggled violently, thrown itself over
on it's tace, and a pillow had fallen over
it, and it was dead from Suilocation.
| Nervous children suffer untold agonics
from fear when put to bed alone No
tongue can tell the horrors of a lonely
room to such children. \ little. delicate
boy, whom his parents were drilling to
sleep alone, used to scream violently
every night, aud his father would come
in and whip him. He mistook the perti-
naclty Tor obstinacy, and thought it his
duty to conquer the chid's will. One
night he said, "Why do you always
scream So when you know YOU shall be
punished :" go father, tathcr!' said the
little fellow, 81 don't mind your whip.
ping me, if you'll only stay with me-"
That fathers eyes were opened from that
moment. lie saw that human being
can not be governed by dead rules, like
Il plant or an animal.
No, mother; before you make up a
plan of operation for your baby, look at
it and see what it Us, and use vocr own
common SENSE rs to what it needs.
Look at yourself; look at your hus-
band; look at your own physical habits
ut his, and ask what your child is likely
to be- d"
The caution of our friend with regard
to not suffering the child TO sleep 6ctsceen
the parents is important, Tor many rea-
sons. There is scarcely n man that does
not use tobacco; and if man uses to-
bacco, there is constant emanation of
1t from his person. Now, however he
may Justify the use OF it himself, hc can
hardly think that stale tobacco effiuruln
is n healthy agent TO be carried into the
lungs of u delicate infant. Children of
smoking fathers often have their brains
and nervous systems entirely mprcgna.
ted with the poison of nicOtiHe in the
helpless age of infancy. y couple came
to country place entirely for the health
of their only boy, n feeble infant. The
child was pale and sickly, constvatcd in
bowels, aud threw up his milk constant
ly. The parents had but one room, in
which they lived with him, and which
was blue every evening" with tobacco
smoke. Every evening that helpless little
creature took into his lungs as much to-
bacco as it he had smoked cigarette
StlIl more than thistle mother who
was nursing that infant did what was
equivalent to smoking cigar every eve
nlng, she breathed her husbands smoke
Now, it your baby smokes cigars, you
will find, by and by, when he comes to
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not be found. He will be starty, fitful,
morbid, full of nervous kinks and cranks-
one of those wretched human beings who
live a life like that described bv law
thoFne In his story OF "Feathertop, y only
capable of existence and efficiency while
he is smoking, but sinking into dimuess
and stupidity When he stops.
| Such are some Of the chances of poor
babies! God help the poor little things!
They never asked to be born; and their
parents, il they 'cW bring them into ex-
istence, owe them every attention to
make that existence blessing.
On But GeoD-The following is old
but good. IL comes to us now from the
BOSTON journal:
The first oddity that comes in my way
is a remark by some one that "kisses are
like creation, because they are made. of
nothing and are very good"-a very
sensible remark by the way--and the
next isa definition Off "buss." Thus:
bass, TO kiss; rebus, to kiss again
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