Show the lives we live SHALL OUR GIRLS SEEK AN AIM IN LIFE do you know mothers that there is a rapidly growing feeling among our girls eirls to learn some sort of a trade or business gu business siness thus rendering themselves self supporting as well as giving them something to live for well this is a natural consequence of our changed conditions in years gone by every girl knew that she would have chances to marry and settle down our young men too in those times married earlier and oftener and the girls had barely time enough to learn how to keep house before they were engaged engaged and then married how few ol 01 old maids there were in utah in those old days As few old maids as there were old bachelors now owing to two causes our young bachelors of twenty five and more are getting very numerous while there is a perfect army of young women verging merging on to old maidenhood and there seems to be small chance of seeing the half of them married I 1 would like to see some sort of a census of these girls taken now and taken again in five years there are some very serious thoughts connected with this matter it may satisfy women of the world to say that a single woman can do as good work in the world as a married one and that the world is as well off for her being in it as if she were married and the mother of children but bilt that sort of argument will not satisfy the latter day saint we all know what can be said on this matter and so I 1 will turn to that other part of this most interesting subject and ask what is best for us as mothers to do concerning this matter of our daughters learning some sort of trade or profession there are things to be said on both sides of the question the girl who spends all her girlhood in regular trade work is illy fitted to become a wife and mother if she has a suitable chance to do so the art and science of housekeeping is is not a thing that can be picked up in a day and the freater reater art of of homemaking home making is still more difficult of acquirement now the question arises shall a girl be given liberty to spend all her girl hood in learning a trade or shall she spend that time in studying housekeeping and homemaking home making and when the t time e of likelihood for marriage is is past take up her trade these are two questions that cannot be determined without some care from some observation and experience I 1 am of the impression that with good judgment a girls mental education can be carried ont brough very young girlhood alongside with instructions and experience in housekeeping also when a decision is made as to the capability of the girl in question her studies can be all turned in on one e direction specialized as it is termed and when she is is twenty one she can have acquired a pretty good education have prepared herself to be a good wife and mother and cau can have secured a trade or profession as well but this cannot be done if a mother is selfish and insists on the girl tending a cross baby all the hours of the day clay when she is out of school or if she insists that the girl shall do all the housework on the plea that she is old enough and the mother wants to save the money to spend in house furnishing there should be a complete and thorough understanding between father and mother and daughter and one must not forget that a girl hansome has some rightson rights right sin in this matter which no parent can well disregard A girl has her whole life to live and the mother has no more right to dwarf her status than she would have to do the same for the son DISEASES OF INFANTS it is not intended in these few papers to enter into any elaborate treatise as a to the nature and causes of diseases or to take up all the disorders and ana diseases that attack infants but the most common complaints ot of infancy and the manner in which to apply home remedies with the most marked symptoms attendant en an those common complaints will be here pointed out with a few simple preventatives of sickness the most common is certainly the trouble incident upon teething and again the most common complaint compla tnt of teething is diarrhoea in this paper let us not enter into any special domain of this period but let us talk awhile on the habits of infants before and during the teething period there is no question that the irritation set up in the system by the cutting of a tooth gives rise to more or less internal disorders of the system this may be a matter ot of hours days or even of months sometimes a slight fever for a few hours or a cough or again a little looseness of the bowels or a running at the ears or a boil and any or all of these disorders may be intensified and become terrible illnesses these are among the results of this period in infants in the first place as sensible mothers let us ask what ads gives rise se to any of these troubles and afterwards we will consider each in detail i to begin with a child who has beer been regularly fed and with proper food will have no trouble of over a few hours standing that is a bold assertion but it is as true as it is bold I 1 would be willing to stake all the money and reputation I 1 ever had that a child nursed once in three hours at first and after with only four meals a day of suitable food given regul arlay with plenty of fresh air to breathe night and day 1 I mean fresh air not cold air such a child cannot have the terribly swollen gums with accompanying soreness and pain could not possibly have more than a few hours disturbance of bowels or stomach in such a child if allowed to have too rich food or if raised by hand and its milk made sweet with cane sugar boils or running at ears or kindred blood troubles might show themselves but the sufferer will not be very sick even then A baby with a cough co or croup with a boil or earache with any sort of sores in fact shows that the food given is too rich in carbons this may be caused by candy white bread and butter sugared drinks or food or meats gravies and in fact anything which contains carbon in great quantities no baby should ever know the taste of meat sugar candy or white bread mush is not good fur fir baby either brown bread after six months of age with a very little butter or honey or broken in not hot water and then milk poured over it is all the too foo i any child wants or needs I 1 know foolish mothers who carry round teething children every hour of the day the babies in pain and with red gums and irritable stomachs and such mothers give P poison i son to their babes in the shape of b bits t s of candy or lumps of sugar or even pieces of cf meat to suck A momentary cessa tion from crying is deemed better than health or ease lor for the babe if a baby has looseness of the bowels especially if this runs into actual you may be sure the babas digestive organs are out of order and this is wholly and solely the mothers fault talk about mothers being unselfish babies are murdered by the hundreds during the summer by foolish and perverse mothers that is solemn truth |