The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-16
men and women.-W. T. Barret, In
Science.
CHILDREN IN SUMMER.
Their Health Needs Careful Attention In
the Country.


the Country.
Some parents of tolera BILE degree of
common sense seem to labor under the
impression that in the country the chill
dren's health may be trusted to take
care of itself.
All ordinary restrictions are relaxed.
The small boys and girls are permitted
to be afield as early in the morning and
as late in the evening as their own
sweet wills dictate. They are allowed
to run in the wet grass, wade in the
brooks, to feast upon half-ripe fruit,
and to generally comfort themselves in
a manner directly opposed to all the
rules of good health.
The consequences of these rash deeds
are not half so disastrous as they
should be by right The special provi-
dence that is said to watch over idiots,
drunkards and young children must
surely find it's work cut out for il in tho
families of such fathers and mothers,
while the hands of the guardian angels
are more than full. 60.
The fidelity with which they dis
charge their trust is indicated by the
fact that the summer mortality of
of young and half-grown children is no
larger. Even if those imprudences do
not lead to immediate dangerous or ia
tai illness they have direct and serious
effect upOn the general health, and
constitutions that have in youth been
undermined by these and similar i'm
prudences seldom fail to show the evil
result in late life.
l call to mind one family in which
this happy -go-lucky system prevailed.
The eldest son, a fine young fellow,
whose delicate health bore witness to
the license of diet accorded him since
his infancy, died at twenty-one of peri
tonitis, after three days illness.
brought on by free Indulgence in coll
lege boys supper of peanuts. molasses
candy, cocoanut cakes and similar
harmless (?) delicacies.
The only daughter died at seven from
membranous Group, the result of an
snow Her feet and ankles had been
wet for three hours before her shoes
and stockings We're changed.
Two sons survive. One is chronic
dyspeptic. the other has an intestinal
weakness which requires constant
watchfulness and prudence. All tho
children had been healthy babies, with
no inherited malady.
The restrictions to the children's lib
erty need be few, the prudence of the
simplest kind. The little ones should
not be allowed out of doors in the very
early morning before the world is wei
aired and while the mists still cling
closely to the earths surface.
They should come in at night before
the dew begins to fall or the chill 10
settle upon the air When they go out
in the grass their feet should be pro-
tected by overshoes. and they should
be warned never to sit down On the
damp ground even for moment
When the sun is at its hottest, in the
middle OF the dag. they should keep
cut of it's direct rays. and they should
never be allowed to choose as their
Fairgrounds unhealthy spots in the
vicinity of staguant pools, marshes or
compost. heaps
OF course these precautions are /
meant only for healthy children. With /
delicate little ones there must he 4
strictcr care. and the midday nap, The 4
guarded diet, the regular hours are of
the first Importance I. Herald