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Show IMPOETANT TO M0THEB8. Now that the patent on the white! rubber tubes for nursiDg-bottles has expired, the Sdentijk American takes occasion to direct special attention to tho fact that there is danger and death in them. These white tubes are impregnated im-pregnated with oxide of zinc. Tho dtinnor of tho bottle consists in thin, that it is absolutely impossible to claims.' it. When eucned on, little pr-lirli pr-lirli of milk btc ma attached to the tube and cork; theic curdle aud soon turn sour. If aomo of this deposit be placed on a microscope, we bcb innumerable bacteria, organic beini,B which indicate decomposition and decay. At every meal tho child draw in thousands of these germs. The decomposing process acta upon what it iinda in the mouth, apopha-gus apopha-gus and stomach, and tho -result U diar rhea, cholera infantum, etc. 1 will here expressly remark that the usual method of placing the apparatus in water, or merely rinsing it ouc with a stream of wattr, ii in uo wiiv sutlicient. Some I dealers Eoll a tuitable little wiro bru-h with tho bottle, but even thid does not answer the purpeso, for the apparatus is not clean by a loDg way after drawing the bruah through it several times; and who will take the trouble to clean it so thoroughly eight or ton times a day? How much time it would requirel Another disadvantage ig tbat iho bottle was air-tight, and a ; partial vacuum is formed which renders Bucking so difficult as to exhaust tho child, and it stops bef to its hunger is aii lied. Hence, parcels, yo who are 1 compelled lo Iced young children with a bottle, throw away this apparatus, 1 which can only bring destruction up"n your children, and either select a bottle ' with a glass uiouth-pioco, wbich iCHled from below, or take a Urge rubber mOUtn-pieCO, WUICU 13 pcLtutmou small holo and can bo drawn directly over tho nock of tho glass bottle. The large mouth-piece or nipple can readily be turned inside out and thoroughly cleaned and rubbed with dry salt. |