The Press., 1888-10-04
ONE OUT OF THREE.

True, the weather has been favorable for the occupants of the cradle, and mor- tality from summer complaints has kept right down to minimum, but ''summer will not rot in the sky ;" the suItry days will come, the steamy, exhaustive heat and the afternoons quick chances will chill the baby's blood and send it rushing within to the lining membranes. The child has cold, cholera infantum stands upon the threshold unwilling to be kept at bay. I modestly desire to say a few emphatic words of experience to young, unwary mothers they may not come amiss. Your little ones may have weak digestive organs, and what to give them to eat may be the subject of much thought and experiment. Mistakes in feeding are made at the out set and not after the babe is taken sick, when all the centripetal forces of love and money are at work for it's restoration.
 My first was one of those pale ''anemia" children who didn't assimilate nourish- ment properly, didn't seem to make blood. Rather late in the day discover ed this and began diluting the cows milk with decoctions of the cereals, changing from oat meal to rice as the condition of the bowels indicated. One sultry August day he grew sick and his constitution could not withstand disease. Then, after it was too late to begin over again, how energetically we sought through the cur riculum of dietetic preparations for some thing that would agree with the weakened organs of assimilation Everything the doctor, or nurse, or the neiehbors, or the books on the care of children suggested we tried, from boiled four pap to goats milk and the advertised foods. Do not take it as certain sIgn that the baby is doing well enough because he is plump, as did, but convince yourself that he is making good blood, and firm tissues. Occasional ly peer beneath the under eyelid if there is not bright red color the blood lacks vitality. Improve the nourishment and give two or three minims of tincture of iron daily this isn't whim, but test :; don't "pshaw" because you read it in a newspaper you know 8 newspaper nova days is a whole library, Materia medica and the pulpit thrown in.
 Some advised me to take my second child away from home to a farm house up- on hill. did. This baby had ner- vous, sensitive organization, was fussy and worris ome, and generally turned night into day. At first the change agreed with him, but this family seemed to think that a racket was the one elixir for all infantile mishaps. If he had the collie, some mem- Der would jingle small bell if he got a bump they'd ring the dinner bell if he rode out, sleigh b9ll would tintinabulate from some part of his carriage. If he had sick day they would feed him toast water. If said he would starve, they would re- mind me that I had lost one baby and must be willing to let somebody show me how to keep this one. There seemed to be 8 conspiracy against the child's me-or death - it was uncertain which. The pseudo nurse declared was over-feeding, the children volunteered to amuse him more, give him huckleberries and keep him out to hear the COW bell in the lane evenings. Iwould catch him in my arms carry him to an upper room for an hours quiet, regretting that wasn't back in my own nest, where belonged but ere long baby went where there is no catering fol delicate little stomachs, and because it Ii so natural to blame somebody I always thought he was ''belled" to death. Moral
 Stay at home with the infant. Do not lei more than a score of people have the car' of him.
 With the third child stayed at home and worked for all was worth. It would pay. I didn't read any circulars to ascer tain the chemical compounds of stor, foods. It wouldn't do to shirk a little ex tra work, it didn't do to be economical, i didn't do to say, "Oh, there's no danger 0 taking cold if the fire has gone out" Sh, was more delicate than the others. Th' idea was to raise her. Like the other two she had to be weaned. The family physi clan recommended trying condensed milk I sent for the "Eagle Brand, mixed on
 part with II parts water; then ''set" on
 quart of Alderney cows milk, from whicl took tablespoonful of cream and adde' to the condensed milk, to make sure w
 didn't all get cheated; placed it in the re frigerator for daily use prepared night ra tions in the same manner. No bottle bab
 ever thrived better. True, in the recuT ring month of all my woe she was attacke
 with genuine Asiatic cholera" vomitin
 clear water, and by the swashy sound seemed as though was holding smal cistern. With throbbing heart dispatch ed messenger for the doctor; quickl
 and carefully loosened the little garment and rubbed every inch of the cold bluis
 surface of her prostrate form with swee oil then wound the limbs with poultice
 made of mixed spices, including mustard
 and wrapped her in woolen blanket
 This arrested congestion. The old doctc
 shook his head dubiously as he admins
 tered 10 drops of an anG-nauseant, but [
 Il D. m. she rallied from the stupor, tall
 ing about the gray kitten. The foIlowin
 week she cut an eye tooth, and soon vel
 on digesting Eagle Brand milk and Aide
 ney cream in stronger proportions, an
 when she was two years old was as pin , and hardy as the best of them. .-MrS. 4
 4. RarbeT, in ~. E. Homestead.