Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-15
BABY Portraits.

round the table like pig around trough,
and bolt their food rs nearly whole AS II can
be made to 20 down. The child whose moth
er gives il a bite of something to eat every
time it cries for it. will not be in a condi-
ton to profit from an understanding of
the law that food should not he taken be-
tween meals. until it il too late for the
knowledge to be of much service. The
Law Of pure air and proper ventilation
may be taught never 80 plainly i'll the
text books but TO the boy who is brought
up to sit and sleep in a close, unvenfilated
room, foul with the breath of living be
ings, and to shun fresh air As he would a
plague the knowledge will be of little
avail While hi, fathers cellar il filed
with deeayiug meat, vegetables, aud all
manner of filth, and the ces, pool smells to
heaven from beneath the kitchen window,
all the teachings of the schools will not
prevent his having typhoid fever, or diph-
liberia, or some form of filth disease, when
the summer sun calls into activity the
germs of disease which are latent there.
If liquors are kept upon the sideboard
aud Wlnes are served upon the table IN his
home, not all the teachings of the tenn
perance textbooks in the land can he re-
lied upon to produce in him habits OF
soDrlety ana Tot II dnsllutncF-
Its the practice of the principles of ny
giene in our homes, and this alone, which
( will lessen the rate of disease and death
to-day. aud develop stronger race to-
morrow. The child who has learned the
laws of health from his father and mother,
by seing them continually and persisteI t.
ly applied, will come to follow them in
his own case, As naturally as he will con-
4 la in,
good society has been his birthright and
gentlemaDly conduct has become habitual.
knew man who feared filth a. he
feared the devil. A bad odor was his bets
aoir. 1t put him on his mettle at once,
and he could not rest until he had hunted
it down m rooted it out. HIS water sup
ply must be pure beyond all question.
His cellar must be cleaned and kept clean.
No cesspool or vault was allowed to gen
crate putrefaction on his premises. When
he bought house his first care was to
look after the ventilation and drainage,
water supply and disposal of waste. IL
these were defective, they must be recon-
struCted at once, at whatever cost, and
made as nearly perfect as possible, and sn
on through the list The result was, his
children grew up to be like him in this re-
spect. They did not need to be warned
against the dangers of filth. They knew
them already.
| know mothers, too, who teach their
children how to preserve good health and
develop strong bodies; who instruct their
daughters in the mysteries of their own
being, and the dangers that may beset
them, thus preparing them against the
day of temptation. adj fitting tn, m to live
pure and wholesome lives.
When parents such a these are grown
old, their children will rise up and call
them blessed; and when such health
teaching as this shall prevail in our homes
"a teaching that is practical as well as
theoretical, and that is ingrained into a
chld's life by constant repetition of pre-
cept and example-then shall~we begin to
see It's results, in increasing longevity,
lessening disease, and developing stall
wart and SOBER race. ". French, w. d.