Babyhood . arantined bed-chamber all through one soft September hour before the death-film blotted outthe blue from the sweet, faint eyes he open-ed them wide and laughed. A door un-closed in the upper story and let fall downthe staircase the sound of a babys voicetrying to turn a tune he had taught her aweek ago. 14 What a sweet singer she is ! he falteredfondly. It makes me most well when Ihear her! 78 BAB YHOOD. Be pitiful, busy mother, tempted by stressof work and many interruptions to pushaway the baby of yesternight, that the newclaimant of to-day be not neglected. Gradelovingly t


Babyhood . arantined bed-chamber all through one soft September hour before the death-film blotted outthe blue from the sweet, faint eyes he open-ed them wide and laughed. A door un-closed in the upper story and let fall downthe staircase the sound of a babys voicetrying to turn a tune he had taught her aweek ago. 14 What a sweet singer she is ! he falteredfondly. It makes me most well when Ihear her! 78 BAB YHOOD. Be pitiful, busy mother, tempted by stressof work and many interruptions to pushaway the baby of yesternight, that the newclaimant of to-day be not neglected. Gradelovingly the descent from the DelectableHeights of your embrace to the level of themultitude who must fend and fare for them- selves. Have as many babies as you havechildren. In the realm where you sit aqueen the latest-born should stand as near—and no nearer—the throne than the to each elder child a proprietorship inlesser and least, developing unselfish gracesby love that makes service joy, not SCARLET-FEVER, AND HOW TO NURSE IT. BY JOHN M. KEATING, , Visiting Obstetrician to Philadelphia Hospital (Blockley)^ and Lecturer on Diseases of Women and Children. INHERE is a misunderstanding whichseems almost universal amongst mo-thers as to the nomenclature of this seems to be conceded that scarlatinameans a very mild attack of scarlet-fever ;possibly its terminal, ina, may be lookedupon as a diminutive, whereas in realitythere is no such distinction. Scarlatina isthe Latin name for scarlet-fever in all itsforms—those most grave and those mostmild. There is another point of great im-portance, which is, that the mildest cases ofscarlet-fever have often the saddest ending,owing to the want of attention to those de-tails of nursing which exclude the possibilityof serious complications by exposure or neg-lect. Every doctor has heard the statement,when questioning in regard to the ante-cedents of a dropsy or possibly some de-structive disease of the ear : My


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