Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — Babyhood for February. [ARTICLE]

Babyhood for February.

That the degree of malignity of scar-let-fever depends almost entirely oh careful or careless nursing is clearly shown by Dr. J. M. Keating in the last Babyhood. The editors of Babyhood could have found few better authorities to deal with this subject than Dr. Keating, and his article cannot fail to impress thousands of mothers with the iciDortauce of preparing themselves, at leisure, with the information necessary for the ordeal which such a scourge may, at any time, compel them to undergo. A more cheerful subject, in the same Humber, is -‘Musical Education: When and How to Begin it,” by HenryT. Finck, \vfeich relates not so much to a technical educational to the desirability of surrounding ohildren with a musical atmosphere lrom the earliest, and encouraging them to pursue mustc in pre'ty much their own way for a few years. Statistics are given proving that, other things being equal, children who arc allowed ty/indulge their natural disposition to sing have stronger lungs and better general health than those who are not. Marion Hurland writes dh ‘Baby’s Little Sister”—an earnest and touching plea for the feelings of the one who- is too often crowded to one side to make room for number tvVo. Among the topics dealt with by subscribers this month ate in the Dark,” “Swollen Tonsils,” “Amber Beads and Croup,” •‘Stocking Supporters,” “Flanriol and Zephyr,” “The Daily Bath,” “An Infant Vandal,” “A Word for the Timid Baby,” ‘Sugar as a Soporific.” etc., etc. [51.50 a year. t Box 8128. New York.] - ■ ■ -» •» —-- ' ' '