escence, and even
manhood.

2063. Gradual Awakening.

To awaken Children from their sleep with a noise, or in an impetuous
manner, is extremely injudicious and hurtful; nor is it proper to
carry them from a dark room immediately into a glaring light, or
against a dazzling wall; for the sudden impression of light
debilitates the organs of vision, and lays the foundation of weak
eyes, from early infancy.

2064. Room for Sleeping.

A Bedroom or Night Nursery ought to be spacious and lofty, dry, airy,
and not inhabited through the day.

2065. No Contamination.

No Servants, if possible, should be suffered to sleep in the same
room, and no linen or washed clothes should ever be hung there to dry,
as they contaminate the air in which so considerable a portion of
infantile life must be spent.

2066. Consequences.

The Consequences attending a vitiated atmosphere in such rooms are
serious, and often fatal.

2067. Feather Beds.

Feather Beds should be banished from nurseries, as they are unnatural
and debilitating contrivances.

2068. Windows.

The Windows should never be opened at night, but may be left open the
whole day in fine clear weather.

2069. Position of Bedstead.

Lastly, the Bedstead must not be placed too low on the floor; nor is
it proper to let children sleep on a couch which is made without any
elevation from the ground; because the most mephitic and pernicious
stratum of air in an apartment is that within one or two feet from the
floor, while the most wholesome, or atmospheric air, is in the middle
of the room, and the inflammable gas ascends to the top.

2070. Cookery for Children.

2071. Food for an Infant.

Take of fresh cow's milk, one tablespoonful, and mix with two
tablespoonfuls of hot water; sweeten with loaf sugar, as much as may
be agreeable. This quantity is sufficient for once feeding a new-born
infant; and the same quantity may be given every two or three
hours,--not oftener,--till the mother's breast affords natural
nourishment.

2072. Milk for Infants Six Months Old.

Take one pint of milk, one pint of water; boil it, and add one
tablespoonful of flour. Dissolve the flour first in half a teacupful
of water; it must he strained in gradually, and boiled hard twenty
minutes. As the child grows older, one-third water. If properly made,
it is the most nutritious, at the same time the