. Babyhood . child can havegood breast-milk and is able to draw thebreast, it has the best food, and has agood chance of survival and ultimately ofthriving. If it cannot have milk from thebreast of its mother or another nurse, itmust be fed with the best possible substi-tutes. If a child is very premature or exception-ally feeble it may be unable to suck ; in thatcase the breast-milk or food should be care-fully fed to it either from a spoon or injectedin small quantities into the stomach througha soft, flexible rubber tube—a catheter, forinstance, the introduction of which is notdifficult. Fr
. Babyhood . child can havegood breast-milk and is able to draw thebreast, it has the best food, and has agood chance of survival and ultimately ofthriving. If it cannot have milk from thebreast of its mother or another nurse, itmust be fed with the best possible substi-tutes. If a child is very premature or exception-ally feeble it may be unable to suck ; in thatcase the breast-milk or food should be care-fully fed to it either from a spoon or injectedin small quantities into the stomach througha soft, flexible rubber tube—a catheter, forinstance, the introduction of which is notdifficult. From a report of the success ob-tained with the incubator for two years atthe Maternite Hospital in Paris, where itwas used only for children weighing fourpounds or less, it seems that more than two-thirds of the children were saved. Thisshould certainly encourage those who haveto meet the problem of rearing prematureinfants, and help them to disregard the su-perstition which was the text of these NURSERY OB Remarkably Keen Perceptions.—My little boywas very delicate, but at two months tookgreat delight in examining the gold letters of Merry Christmas painted on the blue ribbonof his straw rattle. At eight months he was se-riously sick, and during convalescence he wasimmediately soothed and quieted, stopping cry-ing instantly, on my singing a certain MotherGoose rhyme. I would continue the same tune,changing the words, but before one line was fin-ished he would cry. Repeated experimentsfailed to bring any other result. The first pic-ture-book was shown him when he was elevenmonths old, and he immediately turned it rightside up, turned the leaves singly between thumband finger, as though he had been used to it allhis life. From that time books were his greatdelight. At fourteen months he wanted to hearthe stories read, and the instant any one satdown in the room with him he crept up, bring-ing a certain Greenaway book, and would sitrapt until he tired the reader o
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