Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1882 — HOUSE and HOME. [ARTICLE]

HOUSE and HOME.

While tbe baby is down for a creep, draw little stocking legs over his-arms and. secure them by a safety pin. A baby should sleep on its side. When lying on its back the food sometimes rises in its throat and chokes it. No child should go to bed hungry, but food taken near tne hours of sleeping should be of tbe simplest nature—a cracker, a bit of bread or a glass of milk. Parents should teach their children to gargle their throats; for it may be the savin? of their lives. It is easier to teach them this difficult and awkward fear in health than when prostrated by desease. Let Nature wake the children; she will not do it prematurely. Take care that they go to bed at an early hour—let it be earlier and earlier, until it is found that they wake up themselves in time to dress for breakfast. Give your children plenty of outdoor air; let them sniff it until it sends the rosy current dancing joyfully to their cheeks and temples. Air is so cheap and so good ana so necessary that no child should be denied access to it. Just before each meal let a child have some ripe fruit or some fruit sauce. Apples slid berries are wholesome. Oranges should never be given to children unless the skin and thick white part underneath the skin and between the quarters is carefully removed. Cauliflower is an annual and our season is not long enough to enable it to matuer seed unless the plants are started in hotbed. It is thought, however, that in the course of a few years we Bhall be able to raise our entire supply, instead of importing most of it as at present. To prevent a child coughing at night Loi’. the strength out of 10 cents worth of “Seneca snake root,, to one quart of soft water; strain through a Cloth, boil down to a pint, add one cup of powdered sugar made into a thick molasses. Give one teaspoonful! on going to bed. Children are affected afien with ulcers in the ears after scarlet fever and other children’s diseases. Roast onions in ashes until done, wrap in a strong cloth and squeeze out juice. To three parts iuice add one part laudanum and one part sweet oil, and bottle for use. Wash ear out with warm water- shake bottle well and drop a few drops into the ear. Bathe children in the forenoon when possible, or if not too tired an hour before the evening meal; never for at' least an hour after eating. When possible bathe before an open fire, or In a warm room near’ and rub dry before an open fire. It is injnrious to bathe children on rising before breakfast, especially in cold weather. Washing the face’ neck and hands and dressing is enough before refreshing the body by eating. For sore mouth in nur.-ing babies, take a teaspoon each of pulverized alum and borax, half a teaspoon full of pulverized nut-galls’ a tablespoon of noney; mix and pour on it half a teacup of boiling water; let settle, and with a clean linen rag wash the mouth four or live times a day; or simple borax water is equally good. Half an even teaspoon of dowdered borax in two teaspoons soft water is strong enough. Dr. Osgood recommends as a' night suit for children a single germent ending in drawers and stockings. Over this, gin cold weather may be worn a flannel sack. At severe seasons, instead or putting an extra coverlet on the bed, he advises the use of a large bag made of a light blanket, into which the child maybe securely placed and closely butting around the neck. Light coverings generally are preferable to heavy ones, if tbe night clothing and the room are sufficiently warm, as they do not induce perspiration nor check exhalations. Hon. L. 8. Coffin pays thi^deserved tribute to the farmers’ wives: We take the ground, that other things being equal, the farmer’s wife can make tne best butter that can be made. Give her the improved method of setting milk, the improved churns, give her tbe knowledge the creamery man has, and with her twenty to fifty or a hundred cows, with the milk direct from the cows to the setting cans, and the cream direct from the cream cans to the churn, without it being carted about for hours in a summer 1 sun and mixed with all sorts of other cream, and good sense dictates that such a woman, with her private dairy all under her own eye and immediate control, can beat the best creamery men.