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Show Fresh Air For Children I It Is not always by tho actual earning earn-ing of money that one may help out the family exchequer. Laboring to prevent unnecessary expenses is quite as effective In Increasing a bank account. As tho mother of children I decided' right in tho beginning be-ginning to avoid doctor bills. These Wk I know to bo no Inconsiderable) sum W in a great many families where thcro uro a number of children. One of th"3 vivid recollections of my own childhood Is tho days and nights of suffering caused by coughs, rolds, sore, throatB and earaches. How well I remember whenover dip-therla dip-therla or tonsllltls becamo ,.-evnlent in our neighborhood, how we children chil-dren would bo taken at night Into " a tightly closed room and have our throats swabbed with tar or dusted with powdered sulphur nnd then bo put to bed choking from tho fumes of burning sulphur., As I grow" older, our family becamo fresh air converts, nnd having seen what it would do In my own case, I determined that my children should have every benefit possible to bo derived de-rived from pure air. Whllo tents and slooplng porches aro convenient for this purpose, they aro an extra expense, ex-pense, nnd, not a necessity. Fresh air may bo had for the asking. Just open tho window and let It In. My oldest boy was born In April 'and I sooh began putting him out of doors in his cart. It being summer time, this excited no comments, but when winter enmo and I still continued contin-ued to put him out from 3 to 4 hours every day, aunts, grandmothers, nnd neighbor women began to prophesy tin untimely end. Ono must bo warm and comfortable or tho results are not satisfactory. 1 always choso n corner whero the wind did not strike directly and a tlmo of tho day when tho sun shono warmest. As our porch to on tho southwest side of tho houso I often had to contrive n windbreak when tho wind blew from tho west. On stormy days I Item him In tho houso. At night ho Blept In n room with tho windows open, and four winters with ii'jver an attack of tho cioup, cough, Borethroat, earache, or nny of tho maladies bo common In winter, that aro caused chiefly from Improper ventilation, havo convinced mo that my method Is n success. I am Btiro that nnj'one who might happen to see him trotting about nf-1 ter his daddy as ho looks after tho Mock, would quite ngreo with mo. With my two year old boy I proceeded proceed-ed lu tho same manner with tho sumo results. My Httlo girl, three months old, did not have tho advantage of summer sum-mer weather that her brothers bad to malco her start In llfo. Sho is, as yet, too young and tender to stand extrcmo cold for nny length of tlmo but sho has a Httlo nap out doors every day nnd ol night not only dooi sho havo a bed to horself, but ft big I room too, that Is filled with fresh air beforo sho Is put to bed and then slightly warmed and her nights of unbroken slumber provo that this plan Is n succoss too. Our editor requires lac's nnd " ures. Tho facts I havo related, tho figures are few. In truth, Jliero to but ono; just a great big cipher ho sum of tho long list of doctor bills we have not had to pay. Of course, fresh air Is not all sufficient. suf-ficient. Proper diet Ib qulto as important, im-portant, but that Is too broad n sub ert to be even touched upon In so short an article-Utah Farmer. |
