own rights, but find
pleasure in making concessions.

2019. Conversation.

Speak Distinctly, look at the person to whom you speak, and when you
have spoken, give him an opportunity to reply.

2020. Temperance.

Avoid Drunkenness as you would a curse; and modify all appetites,
especially those that are acquired.

2021. Correct Dress.

Dress Well, but not superfluously; be neither like a sloven, nor like
a stuffed model.

2022. Cleanliness.

Keep away all Uncleanly Appearances from the person. Let the nails,
the teeth, and, in fact, the whole system receive _salutary_ rather
than _studied_ care. But let these things receive attention at the
toilet--not elsewhere.

2023. Jewellery.

Avoid displaying Excess of Jewellery. Nothing looks more effeminate
upon a man.

2024. Central Ideas.

Every one of these Suggestions may be regarded as the centre of many
others, which the earnest mind cannot fail to discover. (See HINTS ON
ETIQUETTE, _par_. 1924.)

2025. Children.

Happy indeed is the child who, during the first period of its
existence, is fed upon no other aliment than the milk of its mother,
or that of a healthy nurse. If other food become necessary before the
child has acquired teeth, it ought to be of a liquid form; for
instance, biscuits or stale bread boiled in an equal mixture of milk
and water, to the consistence of a thick soup; but by no means even
this in the first week of its life. Children who are brought up by
hand, that is to say, who are not nursed by mother or wet nurse,
require an occasioned change of diet, and thin gruel affords a
wholesome alternation to milk. When cows' milk is used it should be
obtained, if possible, from one and the same cow, and diluted with
boiled water. Swiss milk is recommended by some medical men. The
Aylesbury Dairy Company furnish a speciality for young children under
the name of "Artificial Human Milk," which is recommended.

2026. Thickening.

Flour or Meal ought never to be used for soup, as it produces viscid
humours, instead of a wholesome nutritious chyle.

2027 Introducing Solid Food.

After the first Six Months, weak veal or chicken broth may be given,
and also, progressively, vegetables that are not very flatulent, for
instance, carrots, endive, spinach, parsnips, with broth, and a little
stewed fruit, such as apples, pears, plums, and cherries.

2028