Show simple bath tet an old physician told the writer ot n case he had with a delicate baby one day he called to find the little one with a heavy cold did you give it a bath yesterday at the temperature I 1 order ed he ailed the mother she had given it the lath but of temperature and thermometers she was blissfully ignorant at last the doctor extracted the information that her test of tern was it the baby grew blue the bath was too cold if it grew red it was too hot it one cannot at ford a thermometer said the phyll clan in conclusion you have a sure enough one in a bare elbow the hand inured to all degrees of beat and cold perhaps calloused with hard work Is no fit critic of anything so del important as the temperature of a baby s bath if the water Is of a comfortable temperature to one s bare elbow the baby will grow neither red for blue but find real enjoyment in his bath good housekeeping |