The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-13
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What Is ii thar everybody wants, says
a conandfam. everybody asks for
everybody gives and nobody takes And
the answer IS: Advice But there is one
class to whom this does not apply. and
that is the noble army of mothers. They
want adyiees~they ask for 1t and they
take ~ gladly What to do for the
childreng How best TO care for the ba-
biesa These are the great questions
and near TO every true weman's heart.
TIC keep the baby well and strong, per-
haps. the great essential is calm and
deep sleep. If the little one rests wei
at night its chances of health are always
good.
The books says Giveathe baby a cool
bath and .pnt it 10 sleep By itself: never
let a child remain in bed at night. with
another person. not even Its mother.
That ID what the books say. books Writ
ten by men who know a good deal about
babies. but not everything. Some of us
have never been able to believe that this
is quits right. The human mother is
the only animal that puts It's young away
from it during the hours of darkness.
Little chickens sleep under their mothers
wing, The cat and her Kittens resolve
>themselyes into a furry mass for their
nights rest, and all the animals of the
forest are equally tender and near = 70
their offspring. 1t must be remembered,
however. that our humble cousins, the
cat. the hen, the ~lioness, etc., are very
sensible mothers. and tina by consider
ing their ways we, too. may become wise
ana learn how and why we should have
our little ones near US at night.
In theghrzf place great care must
be takenzte secure air that rs pure
for the baby TO breate. It must not be
contaminated in any way. not even by
the mothers breath. Air that has bean
drawn into the lungs and forced out
again is full of poison. Not only does ii
contain impure gases-as carbonic acid
gas but a pernicious waste substance
similar in Quality to snake poison.
Sufficient quantities Of these noxfoas
materials will cause death, as in the
Black Hole of Calcutta or the crowded
scandinavian BAH room where merry
makers daneed in a low, unyentilatea
space till they fell fainting and dying,
their reveis and their life ending at the
same time. These are extreme cases, yea
unseen poison fsrks in the breath of
every one-poison in minute quantities.
the
So let the mother turn her face away,
Keeping the baby within range of her
comforting material hand, but out of
reach of all ave of sexhaled air from
her own lungs. A good place for a small
infant at night is on a hair pillow a lit
tie above the level Of the mothers head.
or, perhaps, down towards the foot OF
the bed.
An enterprising woman whose family
was large and house small. contrived an
ingenious method of raising the baby
above the poison level. A., ciofhes-basket
about three feet long was fitted up with
hair mattress and appropriate furnish
n and suspended from the ceiling at
the spot most accessible to the mother
at night midway between the middle
and foot of the bed and drawn up and |
down by pulleys as occasion required. |
This fulfilled every condition Of health |
and economy Of space. impure air, when |
first exhaled from the lungs rises. be-
cause 1t is warm, and when cooled falls
to the lower part of the room. The most |
poisonous region then, is towards the !
floor. IN giving some good advice cone
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81 e1.A1aes Ainesiey SAYS IN substance
!. speaA,ti o1sine very pooh OF england:
sss1a1 nes-netnI from selling their beds
usasa lne ssress 2! poverty. Let them
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sases ina nolas them up above the
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