Buckeye cookery

Though Ignorance eats her own meals regularly and at stated times, she feeds her baby at all times and seasons. If the child has colic from over. eating, or the improper diet of its mother, shg trys to ally its suffering with additional feeding and vigorous trotting; not succeeding, she ends the drama with a spoonful of Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup; having drugged the sentinel and silenced his guns, she imagines the citadel safe. Reason feeds her baby regularly, by the clock, once in two or three hours, and gives. the stomach some chance for rest. She prevents colic by regulating her own diet and habits of life, knowing that improper articles of food, and ill-nature or outbursts of passion in the mother, have cost many a baby its life. Ignorance, having noticed that her baby sleeps longer with its head coy. ered, uniformly excludes the air. Breathing the same air over a dozen times, it becomes stupefied with the carbonic-acid gas, is thrown into a pro. _fuse perspiration, and is sure to catch cold on emerging from the fetid atmos. phere.. Reason puts her child to sleep, with head uncovered, in a spacious chamber, bright with sunlight and fresh air; where, after a long nap, she will often find him (as soon as he is old enough to notice objects) looking at . the shadows on the wall, or studying the anatomical wonders of his own hands and feet, the very picture of content. _ Regular feeding, freedom in dress, plenty of sleep, water, sunlight, and pure air, will secure to babies that health and happiness that in nature should be their inheritance. Ae ‘Seeing that the atmosphere is forty miles deep, ail round the globe,” a) says Horace Mann, ‘it isa useless piece of economy to breathe it more than once. If we were obliged to trundle it in the wheel-barrows, in order to fill our homes, churches, school-houses, railroad-cars, and steamboats, there might be some excuse for our seeming parsimony. But as it is we are prodigals of health, of which we have so little; and nigegards of air, of which we have so much.’’—WMrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, New York. GREAT care should be given that children are not fed with milk that has been turned by a thunder-storm. The chemical change is rapid, and extra | caution is necessary. j GINGER-BREAD made from oatmeal instead of flour is a good aperient for children. a Gi ae SOMETHING ABOUT BABIES. 463, PARENTS SHOULD TEACH their children to gargle their throats, for it may be the saving of their lives, It is easier to teach them this difficult and awkward feat in health than when prostrated by disease. To PREVENT A CHILD COUGHING AT NIGHT, boil the strength out of ten cents worth of ‘‘seneca snake-root”’ in one quart of soft water; strain through a cloth, boil down to a pint, add one cup powdered sugar made into a thick molasses. Give one tea-spoonful on going to bed. CHILDREN ARE OFTEN TROUBLED with ulcers in the ears after scarlet fever and other children’s diseases. Roast onions in ashes until done, wrap in a strong cloth, and squeeze out juice. To three parts juice, add one part laudanum and one part sweet-oil, and bottle for use. Wash ear out with warm: water, shake bottle well, and drop a few drops into the ear. For SORE MOUTH IN NURSING BABIES, take a tea-spoon each of pulverized alum and borax, half a salt-spoon of pulverized nut-galls, a table-spoon of honey; mix, and pour on it half a tea-cup boiling water; let settle, and ’ with a clean linen rag wash the mouth four or five times a day, using a fresh piece of linen every day; or simple borax water is equally good. Half | an ce tea-spoon powdered borax in two table-spoons soft water is strong enough.