Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-29
Household Letters
Continued from page five

pound. This need cause no alarm, for it is
uiately begin.
On the fourth day both baby and mother are
ready for regular feelings at shorter intervals.
From this time onward until toward the end
of its second month. the child should be nursed
every two hours with slightly longer val
after its daily bath, and an interval OF seven
hours In the night. In all, 1t should have about
nine feelings during the "a hours, as follows:
g. and 10 a. m. and 1. g. 8. Z. and IL p. m.
Between IL O'Clock in the evening and in
the morning II should not be fed at all. The
fact that most babies demand food during this
time merely shows that most babies have bad
habits. Let the child cry In vain for three
nights running and II will never cry again.
Put during the day, even If it happens to be
sound asleep. it IL well to waken IL in order
to keep to this schedule faithfully
The bath should be given at 10 o'clock In
the morning. The water should be at the tenn,
soap should be used very sparingly. After the
child has beon gently washed. sponge II with a
soft cloth dipped in cold water and give 1t
brief rundown with alcohol This will bring
the blood to the surface, stimulate the circula-
tion aud prevent colds. 1t Is well to let the
baby sleep three or four hours after the bath
Then il it has not already awakened and de-
msnded food IT should be aroused and the regu-
lar schedule of feeding resumed.
The length of time that the child should be
kept at the breast at each feeding depends so
much upon the volume Of the milk and its own
idiosvncrasies that II Is impossible to lay down
an invariabie rule. The mother should be guild
ed by the fact that a new born infants stom-
ach has a capacity OF but one ounce, or eight
teaspoOnfulS. Some babies are able to INCEST
this amount OF milk in few minutes, while
others require much longer. But II is rarely
safe to Keep 4 child at the breast for more
than 10 to 10 minutes.
An infants stomach is not a fully developed
organ. and. as every one knows, 1t can digest
milk in composition. As matter Of fact, It
probably plays but minor role even in the
digestion Of milk for II stands almost perpen-
sion of the bowels. The food which enters Ii
passes into the bowels very quickly and there
the important pan of the process of di-
gestion takes place. But, all the same a baby
should be given no more food than its stomach
can hold.
larry it needs food. The milk that It gets.
though n liquid does not satisfy It's thirst II
should be given water at least three times
day, and this water should be nearly. Of mot
quite free Of organisms. The water that comes
from the average city main or country spring
is alive with microscopic plants and animals,
minute organisms, . -ue, harmless to
adults. but in the delicate stomach of the baby
they apt to cause disturbances, and so they
must be eliminated. The best way to get rid
of them is TO allow the water to boil twenty
minutes. After that let it cool and store it in
clean. we'll corked bottles which have been pre-
viousy immersed In boiling water for five min
utes. Glass shoppers are better than corks.
Boiled water Is tssteess ana ins . because
dom notices It, 1t is best drunk out of a thor
oughly clean nursing bottle. offer water to
much 1t wants. The supply for each day
should be boiled in the morning. Under no cir
cTmstances should water be kept more than
dav.
Toward the end Of fits second month the feed
ings may get farther apart. but don't imagine
it calls for weak tea nor anything except the
mothers milk or what has had to be substi-
red for 1t. I nearly tainted when I saw a
mother give her three-months-old baby some
scraped apple She placidly said. 81 been
mother ten years an amt killed one yet
On questioning her she admitted two had died
OF summer complaint and locke" indignant
when I said that summer complaint could be
brought on year before by weakening a child's
digestion by beginning to feed II too early
Mothers. boil every drop Of the water your
babies drink from June until frost and see the
difference In their health. Sincerely.
MRS. FULLER.
Dear Miss Thomas: I endorse all Cleola said
shout training boys. I am personally acquaint
ed with Silver Wing. and agree with her about
II being hard work to keep children clean, but
do let them outdoors 70 play. Give them plenty
Of Gods pure air and sunshine. Every mother
must find out the disposition Of her children;
then treat them accordingly; for no two are