The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-09
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At the office of the Society for First Aid
TO the injured, in the Witherspoon Build
ing. Philadelphia, DR.. Samuel P. Gerhard
lectured recently in the Home Nur-
ing course. dealing this time mostly with
infant ills. The barbarity of ~scrubbing
and dressing a newly born infant just
because some enthusiast wants to dress
the baby,'' was roundly scored. Fancy be-
ing thrust into this world for such treat
menti And frequently the dressing is AL
waist" Just as if it were not necessary to
have one part of body as warm as an
other. A very gentle wash and wrapping
up in a nice soft blanket was suggested
instead. Indeed, you must keep the baby
warm all over, legs as we'll as trunk,
though when the room is warm enough
give it a chance to kick about. A healthy
baby cries when hungry or sleepy, and
it's a baby until two years of age He
will cry. clench his fists and draw up his
limbs until he gets satisfaction But II
hi keeps it up something is wrong. A
child with collie cries in paroxysms. sharp
screams, with spells of drowsiness be-
tween, indicate brain trouble, while con-
slant crying and pressing its head to ones
breast means earache. If it's sick and does
not cry, there is the indication of exhaus-
ton. If children received proper care
there'd be a great decrease in mortality.
A pin priek.ng the tender flesh may
cause a spasm, as may teething or I'M
proper food. And these spasms come on
suddenly, with perhaps the ringers
clenched or thumbs turned in, there being
a cessation of breathing. AS a rule these
spasms are not dangerous. h first thing
to discover the cause and remove IT,
the bowels may be loosened by an enema
il soap and water. The bowels are usually
the seat of the trouble. Spasms may pe
treated to the best advantage with a not
bath Temperature of ninety degrees ana
you must not use your clinical thermo-
meter. for hot water will ruin it,, and
making a cold application to the head. Ii
the child is strong it may remain IN NJ
teen or twenty minutes but if it is young
and weak five minutes will be enough.
You may tell a good bit by the way a
child lies. In a state of health it will rest
on its side, its cheek on the pillow. In
exhaustion, marasmus. it will be on its
back and show the whites of its eyes.
Children break down quickly, especially
with bowel trsuslas. and recover as quick
ly. In taking a chii,i's temperature don't
get excited at finding i afsfa.
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story. Even mothers, when questioned by
the physician, are often stupid. They will
sometimes insist thai the baby is fed
upon nothing but milk. and presently Won
der .If the few prunes given it could have
hurt it." Indeed. most deaths are the re-
suit of bad feeding due to ignorance.
What's trivial to adults is fatal to infants.
Ut would really seem better not to have
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meat, vegetables, bread and other foods
intended for grown ups) A child should
be nursed until it is from seven to ten
manths old If possible. After that it
weakens the mother 10 nurse it. Through
the second summer IS unnecessary.
Though the actual weaving occurs at ten
months, it begins at seven gradually, by
giving cows milk, broth, or whatever the
physician advises.
This apparatus should be, washed. every
time it is used, with boiling water. Give
only about what the child requires and
throw away what it leaves. Every day
the bottle should be cleaned with washing
soda. Sterilized milk is better than boiled
milk. Sterilize by filing a bottle three
fourths full of milk and standing it in
water at W hunderd degrees. Have a
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cork. Keep ii on the range. letting it get
Just to boiling heat. You may have a real
sterilizer for two dollars and a half. Put
in the refrigerator and get what is neees-
sary each feeding time, recorking with the
cotton. Add a bit of sugar and salt when
putting it into the nursing bottle. Some
times an emaciated child will thrive on
pure cream. Perhaps it will take a few
5,o,o ~ ao1 1ixrarE oil. If MT CnT4 NAV rIh
it into its. abdomen. Remember that a
gentle tepid bath is often the most quiet
ing thing. OF course, all water mixed with
food must be boiled.
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Waists and gowns for the coming sea-
son seem to be stitched ad infinitum. In
deed, stitchery is to be seen to a greater
extent han ever before.
This on the blouse takes the form of
tuekings fiat and tuckings round and
tuckings faneifu1-
In many cases the entire blouse is
tucked, including the collar hand. These
tueks are bayadere or vertical or diago-
nal but they are there; sometimes the
top of the sleeve is tucked for seven or
eight inches, the remainder being left
plain. In this case the back and fronts
of the body nave the same decoration,
but the under arm portions are plain.
A set of round crystal buttons is gen.
orally the only addition to the general
effect of the seftened outlines caused by
the tucking of the surface box pleats taxi
ing the place of tucks, box pleats about
half an inch across. The effect is charm
ing and to be commended to a stout fig
ure in place of the more aggressive tuck.
These little box pleats are made to lie
very fiat.
Tucks of lace stitch yelling are for the
moment replacing lace on the blouse. In
some cases / notice that the color of the
blouse and the hat corresponds. For ex-
ample, a mauve blouse and a mauve
toque with a beaver brown skirt and
coatee was one dainty ensemble; another
had a soft cream satin blouse with a
round cream felt hat with marked bunch
es of vioiets, and a real lace veil skirt
stitched with white. These felt hats will
be used all summer. As for the black
broadcIoth gown, that is one of the sure
successes of 1885.
"Just look at thati" said the idiot to
his wife, holding up an egg beaten and
turnsz9g the cog wheel which set the three
intersecting metal loops wiizzing like a
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