st children have gradually declined and died within a
few months, from the evil effects of sleeping with old people. Again,
those in feeble health have been greatly benefited, and even restored,
by sleeping with others who were young and healthy.

TIME FOR SLEEP. _Night_ is the proper time for sleep. When day is
substituted for night, the sleep obtained does not fully restore the
exhausted energies of the system. Nature does not allow her laws to be
broken with impunity.

Children require more sleep than old persons. They are sometimes
stupefied with "soothing syrups," and preparations of opium, in order to
get them temporarily out of the way. Such narcotics are very injurious
and dangerous. We have known a young child to be killed by a _single
drop_ of laudanum. This practice, therefore, cannot be too emphatically
condemned.

HOW TO PUT CHILDREN TO BED. The following characteristic lines are from
the pen of Fanny Fern, and contain such good advice that we cannot
refrain from quoting them: "Not with a reproof for any of the day's sins
of omission or commission. Take any other time than bed-time for that.
If you ever heard a little creature sighing or sobbing in its sleep, you
could never do this. Seal their closing eyelids with a kiss and a
blessing. The time will come, all too soon, when they will lay their
heads upon their pillows lacking both. Let them at least have this sweet
memory of happy childhood, of which no future sorrow or trouble can rob
them. Give them their rosy youth. Nor need this involve wild license.
The judicious parent will not so mistake my meaning. If you ever met the
man or the woman, whose eyes have suddenly filled when a little child
has crept trustingly to its mother's breast, you may have seen one in
whose childhood's home 'dignity' and 'severity' stood where love and
pity should have been. Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of
children; too much love not one."

POSITION IN SLEEP. The proper position in sleep is upon the right side.
The orifice leading from the stomach to the bowels being on this side,
this position favors the passage of the contents into the duodenum.
Lying on the back is injurious, since by so doing the spine becomes
heated, especially if the person sleeps on feathers, the circulation is
obstructed and local congestions are encouraged. The face should never
be covered during sleep, since it necessitates the breathing of the same
air over again, together with the e