The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-24


while the hot weather lasts. At all
seasons of the year, but especially in
summer, there is no safe substitute for
milk if the infant has not cut its front
teeth. Sage, arrOU-rOOt, potatoes,
corn-fonr, crackers, bread, every
patented food, and eCery article Of diet
containing starch, cannot, and must
not, be depended on as food for very
young infants. Creeping or walking
children must not be allowed to pick up
unwholesome food.
Ruie S-Each bottleful Of milk should
be sweetened by small lump of loaf
sugar, or by half teaspoonful of
crushed sugar. If the milk is known to
be pure, ii may have one-fourth part of
hot water added to it /; but, if it is not
known to be pure, no water need be
added. When the heat of the weather
is great, the milk may be given quite
cold. Be sure that the milk is I'M
skinned F.; have it as fresh as possible,
and brought very early in the morning.
Before using the pans into which it is
TO be poured, always scald them with
boiling suds. In very hot weather, boil
the milk as soon rs it comes, and at once
put away the vessels holding it in the
coolest part of the bouse-upon ice if it
can be afforded. or down a we'll
Milk, carelessiy allowed to stand in a
warm room, soon spoils and becomes
unfit for food.
RUie 9-If the milk should disagree,
tablespoonful of lime water may be
added to each bottleful. Whenever
pure milk cannot be got, try the con-
densed milk, which often answers adj
mirably. 1t is sold by all the leading
druggists and grocers, and may be pre-
pared by adding to six tablespoonfuls
of boiling water, without sugar, one
teaspoonful of the milk, according to
the age of the child Should this dis
agree, teaspoonful OF arrow-root, of
sago, or of corn-starch, to the pint of
milk, may be cautiously tried. If milk
in any shape cannot be digested, try, for
n few days, pure cream diluted with
three-fourths or four-tifth of water,
returning to the milk as soon as posi-
BILE.
Rule 10-The nursing bottle must be
kept perfectly clean, otherwise the milk
will turn sour, and the child will be i'll.
@1ibtl NuNAl Llttll IL Sl4OAAiNl bC CilDlltNl,
rinsed out, taken apart, and the tube,
cork, nipple, and bottle placed in clean
water, or in water TO which little soda
has been added. 1t is good plan to
have two nursing bottles, and use them
by turns.
Rule lido not wean the child just
before or during the hot weather, nor,
as Il rule, until after its second summer.
If sucking disagrees with the mother,
she must not wean the child, but feed
1t i'll part out of nursing-bOttle, on
such food as has been directed. How
ever small the supply of breast-milk,
provided that it agrees with the child,
the mother should carefully keep it up
against sickness ii alone will often save
the life of Il child when everything else
fails. When the child is over 6 months
old, the mother may save her strength
by giving it one or two meals day of
stale bread and milk, which should be
pressedthrough sieve and put into a
nursing bottle. When from months
to / year old, it may have also one meal
a day of the yolk of a fresh and rare
boiled egg, or one of beef or mutton
broth into which stale bread has been
crumbled. When older than this, it can
have IA little meat finely minced /; but,
even then, milk should be its principal
food, and not such food as grown-up
people eat.
BRIEF RULES FOR CASES OF EMERGENCY.
Ru2e If the child is suddenly at
tackled with vomiting, purging, and
prostration, send for doctor at once.
In the mean time, put the child for few
minutes in hot bath, then carefully
wipe it dry with warm towel, and wrap
it in warm blankets. If it's hands and
feet are cold, bottles filled with hot
water and wrapped in fiannels should be
laid against them.
Rule "A mush-poultice, or one made
of fiax-seed-mesl, TO which one-quarter
part of mustard-tlour has been added,
or fannels wrung out of hot vinegar
and water, should be placed over the
belly.
Rule 3-Five drops of brandy in a
teaspoonful of water may be given ev-
cry ten or fifteen minutes ; but, if the
vomiting persists, give this brandy in
equal parts of milk and lime-water.
Rule If the diarrhea has just be-
gun, or if it is caused by improper food,
a teaspoonful of castor oil, or of the
spiced sirup of rhubarb, should be
given.
Rule 5-If the child has been fed part
ly on the breast and partly on other
food, the mothers milk alone must now
be used. If the child has been weaned,
it should have pure milk with lime
water, or weak beef-tea, or chicken
water
Rule 6 The child should be allowed
to drink cold water freely.
RuIe THE soiled diapers, or the
discharges, should be at onece removed
from the room, but saved for the physi-
clan to examine at his visit.
RECIPES FOR SPECIAL FORMS OF DIET.
For the convenience of mothers, the
following recipes for special forms of
diet are given
Boiled Flour or Flour BoU-Take one
quart of good -four tie it up in pud-
ding-bag so as TO make firm, solid
mass put it into pot of boiling water
early in the morning. and let it boil I'M
til bedtime. Then take it out and let
it dry. In the morning peel off from
the surface and throw away the thin
rind of dough, and with nutmeg
crater CRATE down the hard, dry mass