Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . gm-loosen-ing diet, warm sweet milk, sweetoat-meal porridge, or first paroxysm of croup canbe relieved by fresh air and bya rapid forward-and-backwardmovement of the arms, applying aflannel flesh brush to the neck andupper part of the chest. Ricketsis a sign of general debility, owingto mal-nutrition during the yearsof rapid growth. The best physicfor a rickety child is milk, branbread, and fruit. Rickety childrenare apt to be precocious and till their backsare straightened-up, their books ought to bethrown aside. Knock-knees, bow-legs,chick
Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . gm-loosen-ing diet, warm sweet milk, sweetoat-meal porridge, or first paroxysm of croup canbe relieved by fresh air and bya rapid forward-and-backwardmovement of the arms, applying aflannel flesh brush to the neck andupper part of the chest. Ricketsis a sign of general debility, owingto mal-nutrition during the yearsof rapid growth. The best physicfor a rickety child is milk, branbread, and fruit. Rickety childrenare apt to be precocious and till their backsare straightened-up, their books ought to bethrown aside. Knock-knees, bow-legs,chicken-breasts, and round shoulders areamenable to treatment, if the cure is begunduring the first three years of the teens,which period of life is of all ages the mostplastic and the most retentive of deep im-pressions. Children that are in the slightest degreeweakly, flabby in muscle, pale-faced, andsmall in bones, should never be permittedto walk much. F. L. O, 206 STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIERS QUARTERLY. CROCHET JACKET AND To make the serviceable crochet infantsjacket shown in the illustration (Fig. i),begin at the lower end, by making a firstrow containing one hundred and eighteenstitches. Draw the thread through onechain, thenwrap threadaround theneedle; drawthrough thenext chain, andwrap looselyaround theneedle; and socontinue to theend of the row. In go i ngback, draw thethread through ^*^- • two stitches, make one chain, draw threadthrough two; and so on to the end of thesecond row. Wrap loosely around theneedle, then pick up one stitch, and thethread which was wrapped around theneedle of the last row, and the chain stitch;drawing the thread under the chain andthrough the last two stitches; and so con-tinue to the end of the third row. The fourth, seventh, tenth, thirteenth, andsixteenth rows are decreased by drawing thethread through two double stitches. De-crease all the rows in that manner and fromthe eighteenth row on; crochet the frontsand backs separately of
Size: 1593px × 1568px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, booksubjectclothinganddress, booksubjectfashion
