The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
BABY KILLERS.
A Few Sensible Remarks on the Manage
 ment of Little Children.

A Few Sensible Remarks on the Manage ment of Little Children.
 It is not every one who has baby that is fit to take care of it, and the sui fering of these poor innocents from the hands of unskilled mothers and attend ants is frightful. The root of the trouble is lack of sympathy in its tender helplessness, want of thought, or the put yourself in his place" feeling. Mamma is very proud of baby's first pair of shoes that fits the tiny foot to perfection. One morning she is in a hurry and crowds the closely fitting shoe on the tender foot, never needing a sharp cry of pain from the poor little victim, and he worries all day much to mammals disgust, for she has company and is very busy. But at night he1 heart bleeds, for she finds on taking of his shoe one of the tender little toe; | bent back and broken. Think of the suferings of a grown person going all day in that condition.
 Sometimes the neighbor's little girl takes baby out for an airing, and the carriage is rushed jolting along with the hot sun shining in the weak eyes, or the cap pushed down over the face, and the baby making frantic efforts to claw away the obstruction with his fist, and his careless nurse not seeing any thing amiss.
 Perhaps the child is teething and feverish, and cries all night, when teaspoonful of cool water would set him off into refreshing sleep, but the mother never thinks of such simple thing. Think of the soothing syrups that put the little ones to sleep delight fully, and the terrible after-effects. And in the way of food given to nursing babies, the ignorance and carelessness of mothers surpasses belief. My baby eats any thing" said mother, proud of the fact. ''I gave her piece of mince pie yesterday, and she ate it like little trooper. To-day she swallowed pint of whortleberries; you ought to see her stow them away" An, mother! Baby's digestion will suddenly fail, then will come sickness, another little grave among the myriads in the cemetery, and a sorrowing household; or if she survives early childhood invalIdism may result.
 Don't have set of iron rules to gov ern your babies. Every one needs sep arate study and different management. A mother said: My first baby liked to go to sleep in the dark. After feeding 1 could put him on the bed and he would drop off to sleep with his thumb in his mouth, happy and contented baby. But Freddy! In the first place he wouldn't sleep unless his head was over my shoulder, and if 1 attempted to take the light away he would almost scream himself into convulsions.
 And do not let an ignorant nurse frighten sensitive child by bugaboo stories. What untold suffering is caused by ''the giant in the closet" or the ''big black bear under the bed!' or the gypsy woman that carries of naughty children in big bag" One little boy had been told by a foolish nurse girl about the big black bear un- der the bed. He would awake in the night in trembling fits of horror No words can describe what that poor child suffered. He would awake his mother with piercing cry. ''Come, Willy" she would say, ''let's we see;" so, in- stead of trying to assure him by words, she would light lamp and make him look carefully under the bed and assure himself there was no bear there.-De. troH Tribune.