The Democratic advocate., 1907-07-19
ELEANOR FRANCES HOUSE
HOLD LETTER.
Camping Out at Home.
Easy Housekeeping and Good Health
Secured by Common Sense Methods.
Word for The Babies.

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curry climbs between 80 and 100 degrees.
Most people manage to get away for at
least short period but the greater number
find summer days more or less trying in the
home, especially the busy mother with bab-
les or perhaps an invalid to care for.
A WORKABLE PLAN.
Why not try camping out at home?
Simplify the housekeeping to point where
half the labor is saved, and at the same
time add to the health and happiness OF
every member of the family?
The plan is easy and practical, and not
beyond the comprehension of anyone pos
sessed of intelligence and common sense.
GETTING READY.
The first thing necessary is to make the
home camp, by putting away all unnecess-
ary furnishings, ornaments, ETC., when the
spring cleaning is done. Hangings, car
pets. and brio -a-brac will seem twice as
attractive in the fall if they have not been
exposed to the dust all summer, and less
than half the usual cleaning will be neces-
sary if only the needful things are in use,
besides house so stripped not only looks
cooler but it is both more comfortable and
more sanitary.
SIMPLIFY THE MENUS.
The next thing is to simplify the cater
ing and cooking, Specialists whose advice is
worth many dollars minute, advocate a
complete change of diet in summer and the
most rigid guarding of food supplies to
protect them from absorbing those poison
Gus elements which breed rapidly when
warm days foster all sorts of animal and
vegetable growth.
MILK, EGGS, CEREALS.
A diet made up largely of milk, eggs,
cereals, vegetables and fruits is conductive
to health and happiness in warm weather,
with plenty of fish, and little meat to
vary the menu.
The main thing is to have everything
fresh, and to maintain a standard Of clean
illness that answers to sanitary requirement,
KEEPING OF FOODS.
With regard to keeping of foods, the
best advice is ''Don't" keep them if you
can help it. Buy in the smallest possible
quantities and renew the supplies frequent
ly, being careful that whatever food is
stored in safe or ice chest is absolutely
clean before it is put away
A small quantity Of citric acid-which
is the same as the acid in lemon added
to the water in which fruits or salads are
rinsed is a safeguard against any germs
that may have lodged on them.
THE CARE OF MILK.
Milk, which is an essential part of the
diet of people of all ages, and the main
dependence of babies, young children and
old people, is the food that needs most
careful watching to prevent deterioration.
The housewife should take extra pre-
cautions to insure the salty of her family
in the use of this necessary household sup
ply, which too often becomes a vehicle to
communicate contagion.
Unless one can be sure of the sources
from which it is obtained, and unless it
can be delivered in air tight sealed bottles,
it is wiser to use high grade prepared
milk whose purity is undeniable.
THE RABIES DIET.
Milk in this form is conceded to be the
best food for babies and young children,
and is generally used in children s hospitals
and in day nurseries. 1t is the staple food
among Hebrew mothers in this city, and
Notwithstanding the crowed and generally
unsanitary condition that prevails among
these poorer people, the death rate among
Jewish babies is exceptionally low.
A GENERAL SCHEDULE.
No hard and fast rule can give as to the
exact quantity of food required by each
individual child. The baby is generally
the best judge of that and will, as a rule,
take the quantity it needs provided the
size of the nipple opening is correct.
OTHER POINTS.
Fill the measuring spoon from another
spoon dipped into the can, to be sure of ac-
currant measurement, mixing only enough
each feeding.
Don t over feed. Throwing up the milk
generally indicates over-feeding.
The water used for preparing food should
be freshly boiled, than cooled to 100 de-
grees Fahrenheit The prepared food
should be tested from spoon before filling
the bottle.
Never allow the nipple to be placed in
any one mouth for this purpose, not even
in the mother mouth.
BOTTLE AND NIPPLE.
Use a graduated bottle with nipple attach
ed directly to the bottle. Have several
bottles and nipples.
Wash bottles with soda and rinse in hot
water. Keep nipples in glass of water
to which a little borax has been added.
Use conical nipple and turn it inside out
for cleaning.
BATHING AND CLOTHING.
Frequent bathing is important to health
for every human being, especially in warm
weather, but it is vital necessity for the
baby.
Water at temperature of 30 degrees
should be used at first for the bath, and
the temperature slightly lowered as the
child grows older. A warm sponge bath
at night as we'll as in the morning is benef
cial in warm weather, being conductive to
comfortable sleep.
PROPER SUMNER CLOTHING.
Clothing should be loose and comfortable,
and baby must always be kept warm
Warmth is vitality.
Wet, soiled clothing should be removed
at once The pores of the skin must be
kept clean and open if health is to be con
served.
Fresh air, with protection from dust and
draughts, and quiet, regular living is what
keeps the babies we'll and conduces to good
health in other humans also.
PERSONAL ATMOSPHERE.
The personal atmosphere counts for more
in the sum of human happiness than people
generally realize.
The mother who can regulate her house
hold affairs so that she has leisure to enjoy
a pleasant, short story on her comfortable,
shaded yeranda tn give a little attention