| Show ha tsa to B isow 1 tha season above all others for mothers carefully to watch their flock especially the older children who have had a winter of study and necessarily curtailed exercise the boys and girls who have had their brains worked while their bodies have remained comparatively inactive all through the winter spring laminations too are before many a joung student just at the time when feel the greatest lassitude and dis for work how I 1 wish I 1 wild take them all out of school for a few weeks said an anxious mother the other day noting the palefaces and lessening appetites of her children we all had to go through it said the more philosophic parent 1 I expect they can stand it they will have to be educated like every one else and that ial just the hard pa of it in thi R world I 1 the battle is to the strongest nothing stops a week of absence from school or college means harder work later on therefore unless the need is urgent we cannot take our children out of the treadmill ot daily work but it behooves us to be all the more careful to watch their diet to see that they have sleep enough and exercise enough and if necessary to give them some tonic adapted to their constitutions and needs in old days and even now probably in old fashioned families the inevitable pitcher of bitters appeared every spring on the sideboard co be partaker partaken par taken of generally by the whole family home made and brewed fresh every day it was to be taken cold with a little sugar to sweeten it if desired the ingredients vere different according to the favorite recipe of the house mother but all excellent and as the old ladies used to say good for spring sinkin and a clearen cl earin of the blood new york tribune |
