he juice from sweet oranges, grape fruit, peaches, strawberries,
and raspberries may be given. Stewed or baked apples, apple sauce, figs,
prunes, peaches, apricots, pears are excellent because of their effect
on the bowels. When the bowels are loose, and especially in hot weather,
great care must be taken when fruit of any kind is used. The pulp of any
fruit should never be used; cherries, bananas, pineapples, and berries
are not to be given to children. Milk should never be allowed at the
same meal when sour fruit is served.

WHAT MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW

CHAPTER XXI

"Life has taught me that it is the women of a country in whose
hands its destiny reposes. No cause that is not great enough to
command their devotion and pure enough to deserve their
sympathy can ever wholly triumph."

JOSEPH H. CHOATE.

THE EDUCATION OF THE MOTHER

What Mothers Should Know About the Care of Children During
Illness--A Sick Child Should be in Bed--The Diet of the Sick
Child--A Child is the Most Helpless Living Thing--The Delicate
Child--How to Feed the Delicate Child--How to Bathe the
Delicate Child--Airing the Delicate Child--Habits of the
Delicate Child--Indiscriminate Feeding--Poor Appetite--Loss of
Appetite--Treatment of Loss of Appetite--Overeating in
Infancy--What Correct Eating Means--Bran as a Food--Breakfast
for a Child at School--Lunch for a Child at School--Bran
Muffins for School Children--Bran Muffins in
Constipation--Hysterical Children--What a Mother Should Know
About Cathartics and How to Give a Dose of Castor Oil--Castor
Oil--Calomel--Citrate of Magnesium--When to Use Castor
Oil--When to Use Calomel--Vaccination--Time for
Vaccination--Methods of Vaccination.--Symptoms of Successful
Vaccination.

WHAT MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE CARE OF CHILDREN DURING ILLNESS

Every child has a certain amount of vitality and resistance. When
illness comes it should be our duty to maintain the vitality and
resistance to the highest degree. We should, therefore, irrespective of
the nature of the illness, surround the child with all the conditions
that will minister to the preservation of whatever strength and vitality
the child has. Experience has taught us that there are certain
requirements that should be carried out in the general management of
sick children.

A SICK CHILD SHOULD BE IN BED.--In the first place