Evening star., 1895-06-15

wherever the heat is out, first rubbing the
child with damp cloth. Violet powder is
quite as good and does not soil the slips
so much, but it costs more. Talcum pow
der is best of all and has the merit of
cheapness. Pulverized starch is also good
but has no medicinal properties. If the
baby is fat, 1T will chafe much worse, and
especially under the chin. Keep a lot of
fine thin old swiss or lawn pieces as big as
a handkerchief IN the baby basket, and
put one under the baby's chin as soon as
the other gets damp. In that way you
save the child great deal of discomfort
Have regular hours for putting the baby
to sleep and never fail to get it to sleep at
those hours. Put 1t in dark room where it
can have absolute quiet. Even though
baby may sleep through noise it does not
get the rest that it would from quiet
rap. Let your baby have all the exercise
possible. Do not have it's clothes so fine
and so loaded down with needle work that
it pains you to see the finery getting soied
by contact with the floor. If the child
must suffer the martyrdom of such cloth
ing let it be when it is en- dress parade.
When at home put it's lightest clothing
on it and put on big quilt on the floor
and let it's legs and feet have full swing by
throwing it's skirts back. That is the way
a child has of growing healthy and Vigor-
GUS If you keep it strapped in it's high
chair or in it's carriage it's muscles are
bound to get f1abby and soft, and you will
soon complain that the baby is Slow to
walk slow to sit alone, and when it be-
gins to get on its feet, you will find that
It's bones are so soft from disuse that they
bend under the weight on them and the
child grows bowlegged.
Look After the Nurse.
When YOU send the child out in it's car
riage be sure that its pillows are clean and
dry and that it is comfortably placed with
it's clothes all straight. Give strict orders
that the nurse is not to let the child lie
with the sun in it's face, for that is
fruitful source of weak eyes and sore lids.
Instruct your nurse that the baby is not
to have a mouthful of candy, fruit, or any
other trash while she has it out, and see
that your orders are obeyed. 1t may save
your child an attack of collie or worse. 1t
is common custom for ignorant maids
and irresponsible colored nurses to meet
their male friends when out with their lit
tie charges, and to purchase quiet for a talk
in the park, will willingly spend penny
or two for the vile concoction sold as candy
or for stale cakes and other stuff on which
{. child will gorge itself, with almost ter
rifying results sometimes, when the wealth.
er is very hot, and many fit of convul-
sions can be traced to such source.
Instruct her also to take the baby from
the carriage two or three times during the
morning out, and rest it while she turns
the pillows so that 1T may have cool pill
low to go to sleep on. That is a good plan
to follow If the child sleeps restlessly at
any time. Change the pillow to the cooler
side and shake it up, and shift the childs
position slightly, thereby adding another
hour to its nap. A child can scarcely sleep
too much in summer time. Never permit
anybody, for any purpose whatever, to
waken the baby. 1t is sure to make it
cross
Never irritate a child in hot weather by
trying to make it show off. 1t is injudicous
at any time, and makes your children vain
and forward, but it is especially injurious
to excite the child's brain or warm its
blood by urging it against it's will to display
re he w a m
Of your life should be to keep the child
cool, calm and unruffled, provided with
wholesome food to be eaten at regular
hours and cleanlyi clad. If you accom-
plish that, you will bring your children
through the summers heat without the as
sistance of the family physician.
A prominent physician said not long ago
that half the illness among children was
them in charge. insufficient clothing, or
on the other handio too much, and very
often a matter of foolish pride in both
cases; overeating att the table; permitting a
child to make a meal off of one thing be-
cause 1t liked it.ssthus overlooking the
stomach; letting aachild play In the hot
sun, or in muddy water, just to get rid of
its opportunities for a time; giving a child
Of high nervous temperament doses of
sleeping drops, tor get away from it
peaceably for an evenings amusement; per-
mitting a child tosbe teased into a passion
for some peculiarity, often resulting i'll
convulsions-ah thtSe1 things, he said, were
calculated to increase his business and de-
plete the census at a rapid rate during the
heated season. --5
He was particularly harsh in his restric-
tions on mothSrs who turned their children
over to ignor<nt nurses for hours these
hot days, never going any deeper into the
cause for the nervous wailng and flushed
faces of their returning little ones than
the nurses explanation THAI the child just
fretted the whole time" Children do not
fret without reason. They are either un-
comfortable from some cause that can be
remedied or they are not wen, and in
either case a remedy should be found at
oEce Nine chances in ten, 1t will be found
that the nurse has simply bulled her
small charges into a fever