The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-05-12
NUMBER 46.
The Cara of Children.

While the baby is down for q creep,
draw little stocking legs over his arms
and secure them by a safety pin.
A baby should sleep on its side. When
lying on its back the food sometimes
rises in its throat and chokes it.
If scurf or milk crust appears on the
head do not apply water, but brush often
gently with soft baby's brush.
No child should 60 to bed hungry, but
food taken near the hours of sleeping
should be of the simplest nature-a
cracker, bit of bread or glass of
milk.
Parents should teach their children to
gargle their throats, for it may be the
saving of their lives. 1t is easier to
teach them this difficult and awkward
feat in health than when Frustrated by
disease.
Let Nature wake tho children; she
will not do it prematurely. Take care
that they 90 to bed at an early hour
lot it DO earlier aud earlier, until it is
found that they wake up themselves in
time to dress for breakfast.
Give your children plenty of outdoor
air; let them sniff it until it sends the
rosy current dancing joyfully to their
checks and temples. Air is so cheap and
good and so necessary that no child
should be denied access to it.
just before each meal let child have
some ripe fruit or some fruit sauce. Ap-
pies and berries are wholesome. Or
anges should never be given to children
unless the skin and thick white part I'M
derneath the skin and between the quar-
ters Is carefully removed.
To prevent q child coughing at night
boil the strength out of 10 cents worth
OF Seneca snake root to one quart of
soft water; strain through cloth, boil
down to pint, add one cup of powder
ed sugar made into thick molasses.
Give one teaspoonful on going to bed.
Children are affected often with ulcers
In the ears after scarlet fever and other
children's diseases. Roast onions in
ashes until done, wrap In q strong cloth
and squeeze out juice. To three parts
Juice add one part laudanum and one
part sweet oil, and bottle for use. Wash
ear out with warm water, shake bottle
well and drop few drops into the ear.
Battle children in the forenoon when
possible, OF il not too tired an hour be-
fore the evening meal; neverfor at least
an hour after eating. When possible
bathe before an open fire, or in a warm
room near, and rub dry before an open
fire. 1t is injurious to battle children on
rising, before breakfast, especially in
cold weather. Washing the face, neck
and hands and dressing is enough be-
fore refreshing the body by eating.
For sore mouth in nursing babies, take
a teaspoon each of pulyerized alum and
borax, half teaspoon of pulverizcd nut
gals, and tablespoon of honey; mix and
pour on it half Il teacup of boiling wa
ter; let settle, and with clean linen rag
wash the mouth four or five times a
day; or simple bOrax water is equally
good. Half an even teaspoon of pow
dercd borax in two teaspoons soft water
is strong enough.
DIR. Osgood recommends as a night
suit for children single garment end
ing in drawers and stockings. Over
this, in cold weather, may be worn a
flannel sack. At severe seasons, instead
of putting an extra coverlet on the bed,
he advises the use of large bag made of
light blanket, into which the child
may be securCiy placed and closely but
toned around the neck. Light cover
ings generally are preferable to heavy
ones, If the night clothing and the room
are sufficiently warm, as they do not in,
duce perspiration nor check exhalations.