New-York tribune., 1902-07-24
gladys Pictorial

why "a tt?' said the summer girl discontent-
/ edly that just soon as not weather comes in
every year papers are full of warnings about
things that injurious? I wonder If the news
paper people just sit down and do it purpose TO
make folks uncomforta BILE? I always seeing
something that makes uncomfortable every
time I put drop bite in my mouth; and II
don't see 1t pleasing person who makes
study OF hygiene tells OF It. Tea and coffee
of course are anathema. Any who drinks
them is on the way the grave. Every chocolate
cream nail in your coffin, and all confectionery
IS condemned. The suggestion of iced tea. so
heavenly on a brong day, IS received In ominous
silence. Soda water is set up for that boyle the the
I 1t, and now l always have TO walk In the
middle Of the street because @ m Tak m % on Eae Of
course is forbidden and we must take our lemonade
| It is green. the watermelon when it is red one
might just well be ascetc and done with iti'
One of the most fertile causes of indigestion in
| infants comes from irregular feeding. How many
adults could stand having food put into their stom-
ach every hour so, and entirely irregular IN
tervals. throughout the twenty-four? What adult
could stand ii also TO be ncontinently fed every
time displayed dissatisfaction or bad temper?
Yet that is what happens to the baby Medical
statistics show hours is the average period
required for baby digest his food and the
average baby viii take all that he requires in
| twenty minutes Feed him, then, for twenty min
! is not necessary to wake him feed him. The
stomach will DO that II 1t demands food. Eables
|
| food is proper
The subject of milk for the babies is OF
ceasing interest to those who have babies. A good
many people speak glibly of pasteurized milk who
do not really know what pasteurized milk is how
pasteurzation is accomplished. why milk
! quires pasteurizaton. PasteUriZed milk IS milk
heated very rapidly to 80 l65 degrees Fahren-
| heit, and rapidly cooled to 90 degrees. This
kills every germ in the milk and milk thus treated
and placed in corked bottles in a refrigerator where
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! keep perfectly for twenty-four hours. The
that pasteurzation is necessary to health
fUl milk is because cows milk is full Of germs, al
| though human milk is practically sterile.
! There varied assortments of germs in cows
/ milk Some of them are the cause Of milk sour
ing while the most dangerous are the toxins.
/ which vomiting and diarrhGa in the infant.
! These toxins produced by germs from the mi
particles of stable filth which Il = into the
milk during the process of milking. No matter
how model up date the dairy, matter how
clean the milk or how spotless the stable. some OF
these nfinitesimal particles will find lodgment In
for development. and in very short time after the
milking is terminated. the milk apparently so pure
and fresh. Will be teeming with bacteria. 1t may
De drunk with lnpunly by older people, but IN
| Eoduced INTO the Gencate internal organs or IN
| fants, 1t Will speedily produce stomach and in
/ There IS one certain remedy. The germs develop
imrnediaGev on noilkine il will remain hsrmIess
! When family possesses its this is pos
sibe. But to people buying city buyers do, i is
not possible and pasteuriZaton alone offers safety
MIX can be pasteurlzed at home, follows:
/ Take tin pail about nine inches deep and eight
In diameter. Have false bottom. the size of the
circumference made, perforated with holes, and
placed wire supports to stand inch
from the bottom of the pail. round baking tin
will do In the cover of the pail cut hole large
enough TO admit good sized cork. and through
the latter have punched or burned space large
enough 10 admit a thermometer. This thermom-
eter must reach the water 10 enable the operator
enough food for one feeding in each bottle, and
! have many bottles there to be feelings
In twentv-four hours. Cork the bottles tightly with
cotton Wads place them in the pail and pour in
cold water enough to the food in the bottles
Place the pail over hot fre-a gas range is good
and heat rapidly until temperature OF from $50 TO
100 degrees Is reached in winter and one from 100
/ TO l65 degrees in summer. on removing let the
pail stand for ten fifteen minutes under heavy
cloth. to retain the heat. Then reduce rapidly TO
SO degrees by placing the bottles in ukewarm water
first and then cooling the water as fast pos
sible without breaking the bottles.
When about feed the milk, place the bottle in
hot, though not boiling, water for nve minutes be-
fore administering to the baby Take out the cot
wad only at the last moment and put the nip
pie Immediately. Do let any test the
temperature BY drinking from the bottles This
process will not make poor milk good or sour milk
sweet. but Il will render IL germless, and II the
milk IL good in the frat place the baby viii pass
swimmingly through the dog days.