. Babyhood . ourcein illness, it is not to be generally adoptedin health. TO COUNTERACT ACIDITY IN MILK. One other point about milk when it mani-festly does not agree : The mother shouldprovide herself from a druggist with someblue and some red litmus-paper. Cowsmilk often disagrees because it is acid inreaction. This can readily be determined bydipping a small piece of the blue paper intomilk ; if acid it turns it red. If this changeis prompt and decided, lime-water or bi-carbonate of soda should be added until thered paper is turned a faint blue, or at leastthe blue is unchanged in color. Th
. Babyhood . ourcein illness, it is not to be generally adoptedin health. TO COUNTERACT ACIDITY IN MILK. One other point about milk when it mani-festly does not agree : The mother shouldprovide herself from a druggist with someblue and some red litmus-paper. Cowsmilk often disagrees because it is acid inreaction. This can readily be determined bydipping a small piece of the blue paper intomilk ; if acid it turns it red. If this changeis prompt and decided, lime-water or bi-carbonate of soda should be added until thered paper is turned a faint blue, or at leastthe blue is unchanged in color. The milkwill thus be shown to be in the first instancealkaline, in the second neutral, in reaction ;in either case it is much better adapted forthe childs stomach. NURSERY HELPS An Old-Fashioned but Cosey Cradle, with a History. This is the picture of a cradle made for a dearlittie baby who lived just a hundred years ago ona farm near ours. It is made of the bark of ahemlock tree, with half-circles of bass wood. neatly fitted for ends, and has two blocks ofwood fastened on either side near the head andfoot to keep the cradle from rocking over. Iluldah needs a cradle, the babys mothersaid one morning, and the babys father took his AND NOVELTIES. axe and went into the woods that grew closeto their log-house, and, cutting half-way roundin two places—and the length of a cradle apart—the thick bark of a round-trunked hemlock,he slit the bark from corner to corner of thesecuts and then peeled from the trunk this great,rounded trough of hemlock bark. When it had been dried, and its rough out-side bark nicely smoothed, its ends fitted withhead and foot boards, and knobs put on so itcould not tip a somersault when being rocked,soft pillows and the little baby Huldah wereput into this fragrant, cosey, easy-swinging cra-dle, which the busy mother softly stirred whenthe whir of her reel and the buzz of her flax-wheel threatened to wake Baby before her napwas out. One day, w-hen she was b
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