| Show UNDER THE SPOUT A strange indiala method of pauttttiing luitt tit ones to sleep sir george campbell records iinndhiiss indian memoirs a very strange habit of native omtohtheerrss in the neighborhood of simla ilile seems inclined to recom-mend its adoption in england but per-haps he is speaking in jest I1 wonder not to have seen more no-tice of the caurriiouss practisce of the hill women ooft pauttttiing their babies hheeaadds under a spout oaffwtaatteerr to send them to sleep and keep them quiet when the new carttlrooaadd was first made there was a village at a halting place where rows of such children might be seen iinn a grove close to the road the water of a hill spring was so ad-justed as to furnish a series of little spouts each about the thickness of ones little finger opposite each spout was a kind of earth pillow and a little ttrroouugghh to carry away the water each child was so laid that one of the water spouts played on the top of its head and the water then ran off into the trough I1 can testify that the process was most successful there never were such quiet and babies as those under the spouts the people were unanimous iinn asserting that the water did the children no on the contrary benefited and invig-orated them in fact they seemed to think that a child not subjected to this procesa must grow up soft brained and good for nothing certainly their appearance showed no signs that this singular mmeeththooddooff bracing the intellectual part of their bodies had done them any harm |
