| Show 1 comais mais sphere by one on of ur the sox w our children and now suppose our dear little tiny babe in spite of all our wise care and excellent methods should or would have an attack of the colic I 1 have known mine to do so notwithstanding they were nursed regularly and only four times a day I 1 am so constituted that when something happens I 1 immediately want to know the cause I 1 knew that other children fed and taken care of as carefully as mine were never had a touch of that infant distress the colic and so I 1 knew there must be some other cause for or the trouble another thing which struck me was that my babies never had the colic after I 1 was up and around on my feet what then was the matter it fl flashed over me one day that as I 1 had a weak liver and very poor cincu circulation lation naturally when I 1 lay still in my bed giving myself no exercise all the food which I 1 ate was harder to digest and slow digestion created wind in in my own stomach and bo bowels and perhaps that was communicated communicate i to the baby and hence the colic I 1 told this to my attendants but they laughed at my notion they would eat fruit they said it if it did hurt the baby so said they for a day dav or iwo two but a few da days ys and nights especially nights persuaded my nurse who was my dear good mother that my nution notion was worth a trial anything on earth to keep a baby from crying in in the night when respectable people should g be in bed accordingly my already spare diet was reduced to fewer articles and I 1 ate no fruit and no vegetable but potatoes the change was very noticeable noti cable in the baby alter after the first day perfect peace reigned and there was no further need of argument on my part art the next time I 1 was confined I 1 F listened to the advice of a midwife whose opinion I 1 respected and began with my fruit the first meal after the birth of the child and the baby began with her colic the first night I 1 took the law in my own hands and refused to eat another bit of fruit much as I 1 loved it the consequence was that there was no further colic and when I 1 once got round on my feet I 1 could eat what I 1 pleased as the exercise helped me to digest my food so I 1 give you this advice watch your baby if you have complied with all the other rules and you yourself are the cause of the trouble refrain from eating that which troubles the little stomach talk about that being a sacrifice and that as I 1 have heard mothers say 1 I would eat what I 1 wanted no matter if the child did cry with the colic do you call that true motherliness I 1 call it wor worse than heathenish itis it is no deprivation to a true mother to deny herself for her childs good and now suppose the baby has got a touch of the colic what shall we do for her first be sure she is well warmed put hot flannels on her stomach and give her very wa warm rm water to take in sips from a spoon give her at least four or five tablespoonfuls at a time then raise her up pl and lay her gently over your shoulder and in a few 4 moments give her some more warm water keep this up until she goes q quietly asleep dont don t put milk or sugar in that warm water you are putting off of her recovery for every drop of milk or sugar added is so much more material for the sick sore gore stomach to digest warmth rest and more warmth is what the baby needs not med maddine dine dont put peppermint nor catnip nor anything else in the warm water unless the case is a very bad one and even then what you use should not be sweetened nor have milk added A warm water injection is good and a warm bath in extreme cases but depend mostly on hot flannels put on the stomach and feet plenty penty of hot water given in sips and pray for the little sufferer as you gently move her to help the wind to rise in giving the warm water taste it yourself to be sure it is not too warm and then put it under the little tongue and this prevents the child from strangling dont nurse the child neither while she is suffering nor directly afterwards wait for at least two or three hours if you have ever had the indigestion you will know that food eaten at such a time is so much torture added to louture lor ture and the stomach wants a long period of r rest est after the attack make this hard life as easy as you can for your dear little babes and be wise and prudent the lives we live liv THE SMALL HONESTIES I 1 have been led to reflect very verv much lately on the causes of honesty and nd dishonesty I 1 am under the impression that mothers as well as fathers can do a great deal in very young childhood to encourage strict honesty or on the other hand by carelessness in trifles I 1 feel that pa parents r ants increase dishonest deshone st cies until to their horror their chils child grows up and is a thief and a liar in some instances these traits are icher inherited i ted and so strong are they in a child that no amount of tr training aaning seems seem s to eradicate the weakness from the child let me ask you mothers who are listening to me how many of you force a child to take back some plaything picked up in in a neighbors yard how many of you allow your children to keep that which they find did it ever occur to you that articles found even on the open street are not your own I 1 have heard the best of men relate instances of finding money on the street and appropriating it to their own use this might do in large eastern cities where there are no places provided for the reception of lost articles but in our own midst such a thing as keeping an article found whether on the street or in the open country is sheer dishonesty as there is is a sure place of deposit where losers of property can go and find their own do any of you remember the rules of the united order there is one of them which reads if I 1 find anything I 1 will try to return it to its owner or will take it to the tithing office I 1 am under the impression that a similar rule as to borrowed property should follow this but it did not however ever since I 1 was baptized into the united order I 1 have endeavored to keep the rule how many times I 1 have been laughed at for taking such a thing as a pocket knife to the tithing office but it was not mine and if the owner of it did not get it I 1 still had the satisfaction of knowin knowing that I 1 had done my whole duty and te the article was where it could be turned to some poor mans benefit again do your children ever pick fruit fro from m a neighbors lot do you find out that your little boys have beery been apple or melon stealing what do you do under such circumstances I 1 will tell you what one father certainly one of the wisest if not the wisest I 1 ever knew did with ran one n of his boys who was as the father said a little inclined to be tricky the holy bov sold his milk going on a certain round every day one morning there was waa about a pint short in the milk and this thi s bright boy who had certain lecun pecuniary benefits in the milk scheme filled lary the cans with water in some n up way the father found out the trick taking raking tile khz boy aside he gave him a simple but 0 plain talking to then with thet the firmness the father necessary told th tho boy he would have to take an extra por tion of milk to each one cf f the C custom M i ers so defrauded the next morning and explain to them what he had done th the day before asking forgiveness for the a ar t this said the father will let then them a know that although you were tempted kempte and overcome by an impulse of dis dia honesty you are truly repentant and ar are willing to testify that by makin making the er wrong right how was that flo for lesson do you think that boy ever eve watered the milk again not he ne t T love to tell stories of this particular family for without exception they ar the nearest mortal perfection in a all 11 th theira walks and ways of any single family tj ever knew what is the reason th chev were nota noka bit different to other farril fain liea of boys and girls but the mother waa one of the queens of the earth and nd the h father although not a wealthy or gre great man resolved that his time and strength should be devoted not to money in mak in ing g for his family but to charma character in making a n 10 if all al 1 of israels fathers coul have asame the noble and same high purpose p durpos what would our children be |
