Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-13
THE COMPLAINTS OF CHILDREN
How the Little Ones should be Fed ana
Clothed in Hot Weafher

How the Little Ones should be Fed ana
Clothed in Hot Weather.
ls We have waded through an eight-eoI-
umn article on this bane OF the summer
enjoyment of children, in which the pros
and cons are discussed, says the Maau-
tdcturerS Gazette, and there are really
tWenty-One lines in the article which are
goou, sound, common sense, but peOple
doh,I practice 1t. AS rule, children are
stuffed with everything and ANYTHING in
stead of what they should be allowed to
eat, and they are kept either yelling at
the top OF their voice or so feeble that thev
cannot howl, and then it takes about two
women 10 take care of one. making the
mother fretful and anything but an agree
able accompaniment. Nine out of zen
children are kept sick, and when
they commence to get of their
teet the mother is just fool
ish enough to fix up some stupid mess. q
boiled custard or greasy pudding, or
some other piece Of-We were about TO
say foolishness, and so it is for the child
instead of which just give the child a
piece OF dry bread, piece of watermelon
taken out OF the refrigerator cold, none OF
the stuff taken off from a cart and cut nm
without being properly cooled. Take the
child at bedtime, give him a good bath
rough towel until it is as red as a
lobster, and if he squeals a little it
won't hurt him. Get him into good
laugh and out Of the dumps, Don't
stun him with paregOric, somebody's BAL
sam or some other vile stuff; give him a
little cream of tartar water without anv
ice in it; don't give him any iced tea,
iced coffee, iced lemonade, all of which
tend to give him the summer complaint
ments. If he is feverish lemonade won't
hurt him, or good sweet milk, but dou't
give both together. Teach him not to
drink too much. In this way he may be
fretty for day or two, perhaps.
But we left you putting him to bed. AZ
ter you have rubbed him until he is as red
as a lobster lay him face down, stripped,
take your hands and tattoo him from his
shoulders to his heels, not enough to hurt
him, breaking open the little glands on
the surface OF the skin; then, having done
this, "turn over" and give him the same
medicine. After having finished your
tattooing take the palm Of YOUR
hand and strongly mot allowing
your hand to Slip rub over every
square inch OF the body, from the
upper part of the face to the bottom of the
feet, thoroughly back and forth, until the
skin feels as soft as velvet. If the bowels
ON them' rub them gently, and in this way
promote action. After you are done with
hlm put him to bed, and in nineteen cases
out of twenty he viii wake up in the
morning right side up, and end up like a
young chicken trying to crow.
Now don't make the worst mistake.
Give him piece Of stale bread toasted
yellow brown; no grease; no salt. If he
wants 1t mOistened, little fresh milk or
cream. S0uppZp a lemon into fun,hlor
Of water, or half a tumbler is better.
Sweeten it little, let him have his crust
OF bread and sour lemonade, turn him out
into the yard and tell him to keep out.
IL you have a cooled watermelon
around the house the more be eats of it
the better. If you have some ripe peaches
or ripe berries let him eat literally,
In two days he will have forgotten all
about it, the smilk-and- water color will
have gone, and if you only manage with
little Sense-and when a child is tired
or off his feet stop feeding him, don't let
him run to the ice water pitcher every
five minutes-he will be ready to kick up
his heels at O'Clock in the morning,
jump up and down, and run over the
house all day, and you will be glad when
he is in bed, and he viii sleep as sound as
pig. No use; summer COM
plant in children is all nonsense:
no need of it. 1t need not last over
twelve hours. and you don't need the
doctor to stuff the child with morphine,
laudanum, paregoric, or some other of the
Dostrums. If children were used this way,
and were Kept out of doors, and slept in
rooms where the air run through, we
should neither hear of summer complaint,
cholera infantum, nor anything Of the
kind, provided only common sense is
used at the outset.