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Show Teach tha Child to fiargle. Children aro mimics, and the mother who has tuken singing lestons and I learned to curve the tongue down, thus ! exposing the throat to its fullest extent, would do well to make a game with her children, encouraging them to such imitation. imi-tation. If she will open ler mouth and make the sound a-a-h , letting the tongue form a enrve in tho lower part of the mouth, her baby will copy it, and the chances for required applications to the throat, in cases of diphtheria aid other maladies, will be greater. Apropos of this another nursery game, which is valuable in its far reaching possibilities, is the putting ou to the child of a rubber bib and teaching it to gargle. Have some sugar and water, and let the little one, in its imitative performances, even npill a great deil and swallow some. If the result is accomplished ac-complished and the child learns to gargle gar-gle there will be gained a better opportunity oppor-tunity for curative measures in case of simple or malignant throat maladies. I have In ray care several families of children with whom this method has been pursued; and threatened disease is often aborted by th wise administration of gargles by the nurse or mother. Dr. Jnlia Holmes Smith in New York Led-gpr. |