ight degrees Fahrenheit measured by a thermometer
hanging three feet from the floor. After three months the night
temperature may go as low as fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and after
the first year it may go as low as forty-five degrees.

The heating of the nursery is usually controlled by the general
heating plant, and no matter what system of heating is maintained,
humidifiers must be used, the necessity for which is doubled when the
system is that of the hot-air furnace.

These shallow pans of water with large wick evaporating surfaces will
evaporate from three to four quarts during the twenty-four hours. The
humidity should be fifty throughout the seasons of artificial heating.

Many colds may be entirely avoided by the use of humidifiers or
evaporators. The open grate is one of the very best means of nursery
heating. Gas and oil heaters should not be depended upon for nursery
heat. Only in an emergency should they be used at all, and the
electric heater is by far the best device for such occasions.

[Illustration: Fig. 8. In the Sleeping Blanket]

BABY'S CORNER IN MOTHER'S ROOM

It is probably a conservative estimate to say that ninety-five per
cent of all the babies occupy a corner of mother's and father's
bedroom for the first two or three years. And believing this estimate
to be correct, it is advisable to give the matter some consideration.
To begin with, a lot of the non-essentials, ruffles and fluffles of
the average bedroom, must go. The good father's chiffonier may have to
be put in the bath room; heavy floor coverings must be discarded, to
be replaced by one or two small, light-weight rugs; wall decorations
and the usual bric-a-brac of dressers, tables, etc., should be
carefully packed away. In fact, there should be nothing in the room
save the parents' bed, dresser (several drawers of which must be
devoted to baby's necessities), table, low rocker, a stool, baby's bed
and a good big generous screen, made out of a large clothes horse
enameled white and filled with washable swiss.

Window draperies must be taken down and packed away, while they are
replaced with simple muslin which can go to the laundry twice a month.
If it be within the means of the family purse, it is well to renovate
the walls just prior to the advent of the little stranger.

And now the baby's bed is placed in the corner most protected from
draughts and the glare of the sunlight. If it can be so arranged that
baby looks away