Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-24

from this cause; also, when the r,ilt d;s.
agrees with the child, it viii IN hs ~ x.lI I,s, y
change the COW. As soon a. n. I'LL
is received, it should be rIaced On
the stove and brought to a thn;I .her
placed in the coolest place--on ice ~ - A.
we'll. The vessel in which the mill ;s tsnt
should daily be scalded out with ho;1;no !.
water and cleaned with soan ha,n" Ln-3
perfectly pure and sweet. Eartbern o1 olass
or stoneware vessels are preferable IN tin
ones for keeping milk in. Never oivs a
baby sour or musty milk; it must alwsvs he
sweet and pure, and freshly prepared each
time; if sour, throw it away and get some
fresh; 1t cannot be safely sweetened. When
fed to the child, the milk should be diluted
with one.fourth or less water, and little
sugar added; but before you add water he
sure that the milkmsn has not previously
added it. IF the undiluted milk agrees
with the child, use it. Use condensed
milk" if the fresh cannot be had pure
Under months, children can be stuffed
with, but not nourished by, corn, -four. ar
rowroot, baked -four and all other kinds of
starchy foods. These are Of no value at all
to children under months. and they NAV
be and often are starved to death on these
things.
CONCERNING SOLID FOOD.
Where the child has cut its front teeth. it
should have some light food, as bread, baked
flour or milk biscuits added to its milk.
Once day, it may have meat broth or beef
tea, with bread or biscuits soaked in it-or
the yolk of an egg lightly boiled. When il
is year and a half old, it may have some
fine chopped meat, but milk should still be
its principal food. AT two years it may eat
of cornmeal mush, rolled wheat, oat grits,
etc., but such food as solid meat and pota-
toes, fat pork and fish, which form the food
of adults, should on no account be given to
babies. Do not give any OF the patented
baby foods sold at the stores, unless on the
advice of your family physician. Creeping
and crawling children must not be permit
ted to pick up unwholesome food.
The nursing bottle needs special atten-
ton. 1t should be oval, with no corners or
rough places in which the milk may lodge
and become sour. A plain black rubber
nipple to slip over the moth of the bottle is
the best pattern. Never use the elaborate
and complex nipples with glass and rubber
tubes attached, because they cannot be
readily cleansed; and they also invite in the
baby the ha bit of sleeping with the nipple
in the mouth, thing which should never
happen. Both bottle and nipple should be
thoroughly cleansed in boiling water after
each using, and then kept in cold water to
which little baking sada has been added,
until used again.
SUMMER COMPLAINT.
July, August and September are the worst
months, and the second year" the dreaded
period of the child's life As preventive
measures, are recommended: 1. The nurs-
ing of the child over the second summer,
when this can be properly done, if her milk
agrees with the child, and the mother is not
exhausted. 2. The wearing of thin flannel
shirt by the child all through the summer.
1t should be thin, and in hot weather very
thin. 8. Feeding only milk or other food
known to be fresh, and absolutely pure.
l. Whenever possible, babies should spend
the summer months in the country. II the
above precautions could be carried out, sum-
mer complaint would be almost unknown.
With care, the disease can be greatly
At all events. during the
summer months, give the child pure water
to drink at intervals, for it needs water to
supply that lost by the perspjration. Battle
it in cool or tepid water twice day Keep
it in the open air as much as possible and
where the air is pure. Don't permit it to
have any sour, unripe, Over-ripe or half de-
cayed fruits. Even ripe fruit may cause in
Jury if the child be allowed to indulge at
will. If the objections are very offensive
and the bowels tight. give a dose of castor
bill or of spiced syrup of rhubarb on retiring
1t night. For pain in the bowels, give a
few drops of essence of peppermint in
sweetened water. Ten drops may be given
and repeated as often as required. for this
irug produces no bad results. Give no
audanum, no soothing syrups, no paregoric,
no teas, or any other drugs, medicines or
unless directed by the family ply
'ician.
THE DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD.
It is the common belief that measles, scar
ct fever, whooping cough, mumps, diph-
heria, and the other diseases of childhood |
ire necessarily contracted by every child. |
This Is a mistake. These diseases are all |
contagious, and pass from person to person,
" actual contact By great care, their |
pread may be much restricted and tine lives
II many children saved. When these dis
ases prevail in a community, it is best to
the children for time from the |
lay and Sunday schools, aud so Tar as posi-
lie, to isolate them from other children. In |
10 case should they attend the funeral of d
person dead from any of tie above diseases,
nd in case OF scarlet fever and dipbtheria, |
t is best for parents to remain away as much
S possible from houses where they prevail,
10 matter in how light iorm.