The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-20
Useful Hints for Mothers.

REMEDY FOR CRoup.-Half a tea
spoonful OF pulverized alum in little
molasses. 1t is a simple remedy. one
almost always ON hand, and one dose
seldom fails to give relief. If it should.
repeat it after one hour.
CURE FOR SCARLET FEVER. Hundreds
of children yearly fall victims to scarlet
fever. Concerning the treatment of this
disease, an eminent physician says that
he does not fail in effecting cure more
than once in hundred cases, by giving
the patient warm lemonade with gum
arabic dissolved in it. A cloth wrung
out of hot water and laid upon the stOm-
ach should be renewed as rapidly as it
becomes cool. To this simple treatment
the most obdurate cases seldom fail to
succumb.
No APPETITE FOR BREAKFAsT.-N
judicious parent would let child go to
school without breakfast. If there is a
habitual lack of appetite in the morning
there is surely some difficulty behind it,
and it will inevitably lead to greater diff
culties in the future. No breakfast
means lunch in the forenoon, lunch
means no appetite for dinner, little din
ner means hearty supper and no appe-
tite again next morning. Insist on q
light supper, early rest at night, and
allow no studies and no excursion to pro-
ceed unless some food can be taken.
The habit will soon be formed, or there
is some serious disorder which needs the
cooperation of good physician.
INFANTS KNIT SHIRT.-The material
&c Tf 30
zephyr, or Saxony yarn. 1t is knit upon
two gutta-percha needles two sizes larger
than ordinary steel needles-the latter
may be used if it is desired to have the
work very close and fine before washing.
Set on one eighty-one stitches and knit
one plain row. The next row begin by
narrowing one stitch !; knit three
stitches, then throw in the thread and
knit one-this is to widen@hrow in the
thread again and knit one, then knit two
and take, on the right-hand needle, one
stitch from the left. Now narrow one
and bind that is, drop over the stitch
you have just narrowed, the one you
took from the left-hand needle. Repeat
all of the above to the end of this row,
then knit across with one plain row and
back with another, preserving the right
and wrong sides of these two rows, which
complete the scallop. Repeat the three
last mentioned rows until piece of suf-
ficient length is knit. Knit another of
the same size, and join the two at the
side edges to within a few inches of the
top, which leave open for inserting
sleeves. The sleeves are knit with q row
of scallops at the lower edge, and are
ribbed for the top part. Finish the
neck, after sewing in the sleeves, with n
crotched scallop, and insert a ribbon to
draw it into shape.
OAT MEAL FOR CHILDREN see
by an article in the La France Medicalc
that M. Duiardin has been experiment.
ing with oat meal as food for young
children. He made use of a jelly pre-
pared by soaking tablespoonful of the
meal in glass of water for twelve hours,
then straining through sieve and boil
ing till the whole assumes the consist
ence of Jelly, and adding sugar or salt
to taste. According to analysis, 100
grammes of the meal contains 81
grammes of water, rs of fatty matters,
62.5 of starch, 1915 of heterogeneous mat
tiers, 1.5 of mineral substances, and TO
of cellulose, dextrine and loss. It's nu-
tritious value, therefore, as food for
children, in regard to heterogeneous or
plastic elements, and such as are re-
spiratory, is analogous to that of human
milk or cows milk. Beside these, it
contains more iron than do most of the
articles of food. Four newly-born in
fants were fed with the preparation Just
described, and in every case with salts
focfo,-y raeI1lfS Tn addition 70 Re nr1ali-
ties as food, it acts efficiently against
collie and diarrhea. 1t enters into the
composition of the syrup of Luther,
which is said to be much used in Ger
many. M. Gillette, surgeon of the hos
pital of Melum, has also given oatmeal
combined with cows milk to six chill
dren, and finds it to be valuable food
in cases where the natural supply of