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Show BOW-LEGS. - Mothers who desire to see their children physically upright should attend to this suggestion. <br><br> Bow-legs and knock-knees are among the commonest deformities of humanity, and a Manchester (England) physician, Dr. Compton, attributes the first-mentioned distortion to a habit some youngsters delight in, of rubbing the sole of one foot against that of the other, some will go to sleep with the soles together. They appear to enjoy the contact only when the feet are naked ; they don't attempt to make it when they are socked or slippered. So the remedy is obvious ; keep the baby's soles covered. <br><br> Knock-knees the doctor ascribes to a different childish habit, that of sleeping on the side, with one leg tucked under the hollow behind the other. He has found that when one leg has been bowed inward more than the other, the patient has always slept on one side, and the uppermost member has been the most deformed. Here the preventive is to pad the inside of the knees, so as to keep them apart, and let the limbs grow freely their own way. nail tho the member las has been the tha most here tho the tivo Is iii to pad tho the inside ul of tile tho knees ro BO its 11 1 to keep them spurt apart und and lot let the iho limbs limba grow freely their 0 a way |