Your child is not your child in the sense which it is commonly thought to be. It is not only connected with your life but with an older and wider life back of yours. The child is not only the outgrowth of its father's and mother's life, but is the latest manifesta- tion of a larger and wider life which circles through the arteries of society. A recognition of these facts will lead to the conclusion that your child is not a gift, but a loan to you, to instruct, counsel and polish for the Giver of Life. We are to consider that each child has an individuality of its own, different from any child that ever before existed, and our duty is to bring out its best capacities. " Oh, banish the tears The Queen Cook Book 307 of children ! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.'* It is a great defect in parents not to be able to govern themselves. Here " let patience have its perfect work." Do not punish children merely be- cause you have the power. Scold never. Do not punish cruelly. We are glad to see that whipping, both in schools and at home, is being done away with by the most cultivated and enlightened class of people. Do not be impatient with a child because it made a mistake or met with an accident, but encourage them to try again. Mistakes are often our best teachers and de- velopers. Let the child understand this, that it be not discouraged. Is not the average child made to feel that a mistake is the worst thing that could hap- pen to him } This is a great fallacy. Does a mother require an infant to perform the feat of walking alone till he has learned through many failures } Or what teacher would expect his pupil to learn to read or to write without making a mistake ? The honest effort should be approved and encouragement given that will surely meet with success. Children need outdoor plays and work. Give them a little garden of theii own to care for and let them help you or think they do, and take an interest in all things that you are interested in; they can lend a helping hand in the dooryard or trimming up the dead or wayward branches of the shrubbery. Let them feel a sense of responsibility and proprietorship, which will add to their enjoyment in their work, as it stimulates their industry, care and self-reliance. Do not crowd the children's minds with too many studies. A daily bath for children at night in hot weather is quite essential to good health. Always brush the children's teeth after supper. jo8 The Queen Cook Book The Medicinal Value of Water. The human body is constantly undergoing tissue change. Worn-out particles are cast aside and elim- inated from the system, while the new are ever being formed, from the inception of life to its close. Water has the power of increasing these tissue changes, which multiplies the waste products, but at the same time they are renewed by its agency, giving rise to increased appetite, which in turn provides fresh nutriment. Persons but little accustomed to drinking water are liable to have the waste products formed faster than they are removed. Any obstruc- tion to the free working of natural laws at once pro- duces disease, which, if once firmly seated, requires both time and money to cure. People accustomed to rise in the morning weak and languid will find the cause in the imperfect secretion of wastes, which many times may be remedied by drinking a full tumbler of water before retiring. This very materially assists in the process during the night, and leaves the. tissues fresh and strong, ready for the active work of the day. To drink hot water is one of our best remedial agents. A hot bath on going to bed, even in the hot nights of summer, is a better reliever of insomnia than many drugs. Inflamed parts will subside under the continual poulticing of real hot water.

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Your child is not your child in the sense which it is commonly thought to be. It is not only connected with your life but with an older and wider life back of yours. The child is not only the outgrowth of its father's and mother's life, but is the latest manifestation of a larger and wider life which circles through the arteries of society. A recognition of these facts will lead to the conclusion that your child is not a gift, but a loan to you, to instruct, counsel and polish for the Giver of Life. We are to consider that each child has an individuality of its own, different from any child that ever before existed, and our duty is to bring out its best capacities. " Oh, banish the tears The Queen Cook Book 307 of children ! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.'* It is a great defect in parents not to be able to govern themselves. Here " let patience have its perfect work." Do not punish children merely because you have the power. Scold never. Do not punish cruelly. We are glad to see that whipping, both in schools and at home, is being done away with by the most cultivated and enlightened class of people. Do not be impatient with a child because it made a mistake or met with an accident, but encourage them to try again. Mistakes are often our best teachers and developers. Let the child understand this, that it be not discouraged. Is not the average child made to feel that a mistake is the worst thing that could happen to him } This is a great fallacy. Does a mother require an infant to perform the feat of walking alone till he has learned through many failures } Or what teacher would expect his pupil to learn to read or to write without making a mistake ? The honest effort should be approved and encouragement given that will surely meet with success. Children need outdoor plays and work. Give them a little garden of theii own to care for and let them help you or think they do, and take an interest in all things that you are interested in; they can lend a helping hand in the dooryard or trimming up the dead or wayward branches of the shrubbery. Let them feel a sense of responsibility and proprietorship, which will add to their enjoyment in their work, as it stimulates their industry, care and self-reliance. Do not crowd the children's minds with too many studies. A daily bath for children at night in hot weather is quite essential to good health. Always brush the children's teeth after supper. jo8 The Queen Cook Book The Medicinal Value of Water. The human body is constantly undergoing tissue change. Worn-out particles are cast aside and eliminated from the system, while the new are ever being formed, from the inception of life to its close. Water has the power of increasing these tissue changes, which multiplies the waste products, but at the same time they are renewed by its agency, giving rise to increased appetite, which in turn provides fresh nutriment. Persons but little accustomed to drinking water are liable to have the waste products formed faster than they are removed. Any obstruction to the free working of natural laws at once produces disease, which, if once firmly seated, requires both time and money to cure. People accustomed to rise in the morning weak and languid will find the cause in the imperfect secretion of wastes, which many times may be remedied by drinking a full tumbler of water before retiring. This very materially assists in the process during the night, and leaves the. tissues fresh and strong, ready for the active work of the day. To drink hot water is one of our best remedial agents. A hot bath on going to bed, even in the hot nights of summer, is a better reliever of insomnia than many drugs. Inflamed parts will subside under the continual poulticing of real hot water.

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