leep alone. It gets better air and is not liable to suffocation.

19. A healthy child should never be fed in less than two hours from the
last time they finished before, gradually lengthening the time as it grows
older. At 4 months 31/2 or 4 hours; at 5 months a healthy child will be
better if given nothing in the night except, perhaps, a little water.

20. Give an infant a little water several times a day.

21. A delicate child the first year should be oiled after each bath. The
oiling may often take the place of the bath, in case of a cold.

22. In oiling a babe, use pure olive oil, and wipe off thoroughly after
each application. For nourishing a weak child use also olive oil.

23. For colds, coughs, croup, etc., use goose oil externally and give a
teaspoonful at bed-time.

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HOW TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF YOUR INFANT DURING HOT WEATHER.

[Illustration: FOUND UPON THE DOOR STEP.]

_BATHING._

1. Bathe infants daily in tepid water and even twice a day in hot weather.

If delicate they should be sponged instead of immersing them in water, but
cleanliness is absolutely necessary for the health of infants.

_CLOTHING._

2. Put no bands in their clothing, but make all garments to hang loosely
from the shoulders, and have all their clothing _scrupulously clean_; even
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_SLEEP ALONE._

3. The child should in all cases sleep by itself on a cot or in a crib and
retire at a regular hour. A child _always_ early taught to go to sleep
without rocking or nursing is the healthier and happier for it. Begin _at
birth_ and this will be easily accomplished.

_CORDIALS AND SOOTHING SYRUPS._

4. Never give cordials, soothing syrups, sleeping drops, etc., without the
advice of a physician. A child that frets and does not sleep is either
hungry or ill. _If ill it needs a physician._ Never give candy or cake to
quiet a small child, they are sure to produce disorders of the stomach,
diarrhoea or some other trouble.

_FRESH AIR._

5. Children should have plenty of fresh air summer as well as winter. Avoid
the severe hot sun and the heated kitchen for infants in summer. Heat is
the great destroyer of infants. In excessive hot weather feed them with
chips of ice occasionally, if you have it.

_CLEAN HOUSES._

6. Keep your house clean and cool and well aired night and day. Your
cellars cleared of all rubbish a