The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-08-01
THE CARE OF CHILDREN.
Plain and Simple Rules 10 be ObserV
by Mothers During Ihe Hot Season.

Plain and Simple Rules 20 be Observed
by Mothers During the Hot Season.
The Board of health of New York
has published the following rules for the
care of children during the hot season,
which apply quite. as well to children in
Nashville as to those in New York:
NURSING OF INFANTS.
Overlooking docs more harm than any
thing else; nurse an infant a month or
two every two or three hours.
Nurse an infant of six months and
over five times in tWenty-four hours. and
no more.
II an infant is thirsty, give it pure
water or barley water no sugar.
On the hottest days a few drops of
whisky may be added to either water or
food the whisky not to exceed a tea
spoonful in twenty four hours.
FEEDING OF INFANTS.
Boil teaspoOnful of powdered barley
(grOund in coffee grinder and q gill of
water, with little salt, for fifteen
minutes, strain, then mix it with half as
much boiled milk, add a lump of white
sugar, size of walnut, and give it luke
warm, from 8 nursing bottle. Keep
bottle and mouth piece in q bowl OF
water when not in use, to which little
soda may be added.
For infants five or six months old,
give half barley water and half boiled
milk, with salt and lump of sugar.
For older infants, give more milk than
barley water.
For infants very costive, give oatmeal
instead Of barley. Cook and strain as
before.
When your breast milk is only half
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/ and this prepared food.
In hot weather, if blue litmus paper,
applied to the food, turns red, the food
/ is too acid, and you must make a fresh
mess, or add a small pinch of baking
/ soda.
| Infants of six months may have beef
/ tea or beef soup once day, by itself, or
mixed with other food; and when ten or
! twelve months old, crust of bread and
piece of rare beef to suck.
! No children under two years ought to
| eat at your table.
| Give no candies, in fact, nothing that
is not contained in these rules, without
q doctors orders.
SUMMER COMPLAINT.
/ It comes from overlooking, and hot and
/ foul air. Keep doors and windows open.
/ Wash your children well with cold
/ water twice day, and Oftener in the hot
| season.
Never IegIect Iooseness of the bowels
| in an infant; consult the family or dis
/ pensary physician at once, and he will
/ give you rules about what it should take
! and how it should be nursed. Keep
/ your rooms as cool as possible, have them
well ventilated, and do not allow any bad
smell to come from sinks, privies, garbage
/ boxes, or cutters about the house where
! you live. See that your own apartments
are right, and complain to the board of
/ health, if the neighborhood is offensive.
/ Where an infant is cross and irritable in
| the hot weather trip on the water will
do it a great deal of good (ferryboat or
steamboat), and may prevent cholera
/ infsntum.
JUST as quick as farmer Jones painted
/ his barbed wire fence blue, farmer
! Smiths wife swOre she wasn't going to
| be Outdone. and the fence around the
I Smith farm soon bIossOmed out red,
/ picked with white. Mrs. Jones wasn't
going to have any OF the Smith family
/ putting on airs over her, and their blue
| fence was soon trimmed with gold leaf
stripes. Smith trumped over by putting
gilt ball on every barb, and Jones,
when last heard from, was planting
weather vanes, gilt horses, Peacocks and
| lightning~rod tips all over his fence, and
swearing he'd beat the Smith family ii
! he had to put a cupola and bay window
at every post and hang a chrome every
two feet along the line. we should ali
! pay more attention to the decoration OF
our homes.