Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — Literary Notices [ARTICLE]

Literary Notices

The November number of Babyhood con,tains an article which, if read and thoroughly d igested by half the mothers of recent arrivals in the human family, could not fail to add materially to their mutual comfort, to say nothing of vanquishing, in advance, thedyspepsia with which many babies are destined to find themselves handicapped a few years hence. The writer is Dr. L. E. Holt, visiting physician to the New York Infant Asylum, and he heads his article f with the simple and suggestive word “Colic.” Mrs. E. W. Babcock describes “A Philosopher in the Nursery,'” Mrs M. A. Allen writes on “Children’s Fancies,” Marion Harland on “The Baby Prowler.” and a great variety of other topics, from Lacteal Sterility down to safety pins are treated more or less elaborately.' [lB Spruce St., New York. SIJ>O a year.]

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