Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-05-11
WOMAN AND HOME.
"A CHILD WITHOUT PET ANIMALS is
A SOLITARY BEING.
Use of Toilet Soap-Something More Than
Housekeeping Farmers Mistake
Chiidrep's Friendships-WhatC City Ply
sicians Tell The Chicago Daily News.

Housekeeping Farmers Mistake
sicians Tell The Chicago Daily News.
"The effects of anger upon the human milk
may again he liened to the effect of a
thunderstorm upon the dairy. Both are in
effect electrical storms, only human passion
has in it more refined evil than mere acid.
The more violent and crazy the anger the
greater the danger As one may become ac-
customed to large and repeated doses of
opium, so, no doubt, an infant may (other
circumstances favoring) become somewhat
insured against the pernicious effects of milk
that is subject to more or less frequent
storms of passion, but if the child does escape
severe and dangerous physical illness, it will
hardly, in the transforming of milk to flesh,
escape a most undesirable inheritance of
chara ter A general irritability, bad tenn
per-the result of trials poorly stood up to
mentally-may keep the babe in constant
unrest. and no one knows what ails the baby,
he is so cross.
"What has been said of anger may be said
of the other unhappy emotions, impressing
the child after their kind, not always percept-
IDLY but none the less surely. On the con-
trary, states of love, joy, peace, etc, act as
most powerful tones, and physiological action
goes under their stimulus in perfection.
Thus the secretions are, as it were, happy;
digestion and assimilation take place in the
mother tremendously and unconsciously, and
the milk becomes perfect in its properties, the
babe literally drawing in health, happiness
and peace"-Dr. 4. p Mills.
PLEA FOR THE BOTTLE.
at needs no argument to show that infants
: in all probability derive large amount of
with nursing, and the inference is plain that
the deprivation may entail considerable dis
advantage. 1t has always seemed to me
cruel to thus early cut off the pleasures of
life. The bottle and its appultenances,
moreo yer, can he kept clean, but not without
the employment Of a good deal moro time arr
. care than is usually bestowed upon it. The
bottle and nipple should be afforded brush
of its own. Were l. in order TO be explicit,
to give directions for cleaning nursing
bottle, | should say wash both bottle and
nipple well separately in plain water. Then
soak them both for five minutes in 2 per
cent. solution of borax in water, scrub them
both with tho aid Of the brush, borax water
and soap. Tho nipple should be turned in
sido out end scrubbed. Rinse them all well
several times in plain water Hang the
bottle and nipple separately in dry place
until needed.
"Auother point Of Importance often over
looked is tho necessity of giving to infants
. occasionally some water to drink. During
tho bot weather, when cvaporatios from tho
body goes Oh so fast, nothing will satisfy the
demands OF the body, even of an infant, SO
well as drink of good, plain, pure water."-
DR.. Robert Tiiloy.
~ 49,, DANGERS THAT BEsET.
.. "Unde- tho onervating influence of great
heat tendencies toward death, dormant be-
fore, become potent. Tho weak link in the
sc3ain is broken. Whatever tho predisposition
to disease may havo been, tho depression of
heat es tho exciting factor becomes the last
feather that breaks the camel's back The
higher tho animal the greater are the dangers
that beset early life, because the period of
helplessness is prolonged in the ratio of special
intelligence. Parental intelligence does not
keep pace with racial tendencies however;
evident enough when we find that:
81. Infants are fed upon starchy food before
their calvary glands are developed, and at
Temps arc made to raise babies upon beer,
beef, griddle cakes. potatoes, skim milk, sour
milk, or even if The milk DO good it is often
drawn from unclean bottles.
az Tho two extremes of wealth and poverty
cause neglect of offspring. In the ono case
careless nurses are iatrustod with the infant,
and la tho other neglect is unavoidable.
49, Zymotic diseases leave as sequel@ scrof-
ulous OF some other depressed condition that
only needs the push of exhaustion, however
induced, graveyard.
parents should know that milk is the only
proper food for young children, and that
coarse animal and vegetable diet is hurtful
I'm any season and especially SO in hot weather.
Patent medicines and foods-especially sooth-
ing sirups, that always contain OPP um-help
the little ones out OF the world."-Dr. s. v.
ClevenGer.
p. FEEDING INFANTS.
"Be tho food ever SO wholesome in quality
1T must DO perfectly clean. Probably Us
many babies die from good milk and food
that has soured and become tainted by ex-
pbsure as do from want of the right food.
Many physician will refuse to allow an
ill fed woman to wean her baby; what mat
ter though lie knows her milk is not the best
for tho child, but at least it is clean and is
not tainted when it reaches the stomach.
"'Boil teaspoonful of powdered barley in
a pint or n pint and half of water, with a
little salt, until barley is cooked Leave ii
stand, well covered; when settled skim all
impurities from the top carefully and strain
mix with an equal quantity of boiled milk if
baby is months old, or only one-half milk il
less than months. Older babies more milk
Keep bottle and mouthpiece in bowl of water
when not in use. When baby is costive use
oatmeal instead of barley Infants of
mouths may have beef tea or soup once a
day. Babies of 10 or 13 months may have
crust of bread and piece of rare beef to suck.
"The above GRE substantially the direction:
for feeding infants presented by DR.. Jacob
to the Public Health association of New
York, and these rules have since by expert
sence been found correct and proper to follow
Your child may need other food if it does mo-
thrive; go and ask your doctor what to give
it before it falls sick" Ferdinand Hen
rotn.
THE CLOTHING.
an my experience the first wrong thing
notice is the clothing of the child. Until |
child is well past the critical period of teeth
ing flannel should always be worn over thu
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