Show timely words to Dl mothers drother other I 1 I 1 our quaker friends in philadelphia always foremost with useful practical advice and help have lately issued a pamphlet addressed to mothers on the subject of the terrible mortality of late years among children during the summer months and the means ameido from medical ald aid of itsuro its prevention v antion and cure eure the directions are aro drawn up by a committee of the obstetrical society of philadelphia and the names are those of men who stand hig highest hestIn in in the treatment of children mildren of course these directions are especially intended for the poorer classes of m mothers 0 who are una unable alq ile to fly with their teething babies out of the tile foul air of downor to keep them under the constant oVeis oversight ight of df a skilled physician the rules like all those most effective in hygiene 4 appear to an ordinary reader labz absurdly simple yetla yet set it is after all disobedience to the simple rules of health and morality for which since the days of lamenting jeremiah to the present time the re people T aro are destroyed when the I 1 philadelphia hil hii doctors urge upon mothers in cities citie during the fhe st the absolute necessity of bathing tho the child by immersion in he the t borni morning g in tepid water and sponging it tnt bat tat at night the rule appears so C commonplace nn an exigency oddo of decency that it is passed over aver with just agthe as the or scoffed at tho pro prophet prophets phet phot s orders t to awash himself soven seven times alt llo hei het land had bidden thee thieo do somo some great groat thing fc thou not have done it lt inquired his servant we have a shrewd suspicion that the simple rules even in in regard to washing are neither known to nor comprehended by the majority of mothers or the wise old quaker doctors would not have issued them thus authoritatively wo we therefore make an abstract of them thom anxious to do our part in averting the terrible doom of iash last summer from the little ones 1 perfect cleanliness is enjoined ii in every minute particular the change of night and day clothing clochin 9 clean with each change 2 A bed bod or cot apart from its mother for the child 3 plenty of fresh air the baby should be taken to the park the boats boata that ply up and down the rivers r he the shady sides of broad streets S or public squares kept carefully out of the room where cooking or washing is going on and given riven plenty of ice water to drink drin but very little at a time 4 the house kept scrupulously clean walls whitewashed slops and garbage promptly removed and the air purified by carbolic acid or quicklime 5 the fihe child if sick must bo be kept to the mothers milk alone or if l that prove insufficient to goats or cows cowl milk there is no safe substitute formick to infants infanta who have not cut their front teeth no child should be weaned as a rule until after its second summer the food which nature has provided will often save the ilfe life of a child when every everything thi 1 n else fails falls 6 without te out the ad vico vice of a achy phy no child should be given spirits cordials cordiali cor dials carminatives carmi natives or soothing syrups of any kind thou thousands of children the physicians add die every year from the use of these poisons A ZV Y F tribune |