44 The Bulletin 



sure your child against this most common cause of blindness (infant in- 

 flamed eyes or ophthalmia neonatorum). Then take a little of this cotton 

 or fine soft cloth and put on the end of your finger and wet in the boracic 

 solution and clean out the baby's mouth. Do this every morning until it 

 is at least four weeks old. You can dilute this solution if you like by put- 

 ting a little of it in a cup with a few spoonsful of warm water. Use this 

 treatment and your child will never have any mouth troubles. This is a 

 fine gargle for sore throat. Also be sure to clean up the mother's breast 

 with the same. 



The child being made comfortable, the next thing will be the feeding. Do 

 not feed anything but a little clear warm water, and put to the breast oc- 

 casionally about every two hours. If the mother is in a normal condition 

 the nourishment will be there in due time, and if she is not, the physician 

 will advise. 



You want to watch for every symptom of indigestion, as that is the cause 

 of most baby ailments. And, mother, study your baby; this is your job, and 

 keep at it. Don't be quick to give medicines. A little castor oil is often 

 beneficial and is not harmful. If cold is the trouble, try it. 



Teething soon comes on, and many think they must have a dope or a 

 course of patent medicines for their children — but don't. First be careful 

 with the child's diet, and keep on its bowels a flannel abdominal binder; 

 this never allows the bowels to become chilled. You can get the light weight 

 for fat babies summer wear, but let it be wool, and take off everything else 

 if you like. 



I will give some things for the diet of the child being weaned that Dr. 

 Delia Dixon-Carroll, of Raleigh, gives as some of the best. First, broths. 

 Get an old chicken, dress, cut up and break every bone in its body, as the 

 bones contain the food for the red corpuscles of the blood. Then put this 

 all to cook in one and one-half or two gallons of water and cook slowly for 

 four or flve hours; strain and set to cool; when cool take off most of the 

 oil; heat again and put in small, well sterilized can, and it is ready for use. 

 For making beef or mutton broth, take two pounds of the ribby part, break 

 the bones and treat just as the chicken. Another thing she says is fine, and 

 which only a few mothers know, is cowpeas cooked with meat in a good 

 deal of water for a long time. First strain out and give only the soup with 

 a little cream added to it; later strain the pulp through a fine colander and 

 add to this a little butter or cream, as they are both easily digested and con- 

 tain the protein that all children need. Rice or oatmeal cooked for several 

 hours in a double boiler with a little cream or butter, and very little if any 

 sugar, make a good meal. Avoid sweets at all times as they ferment in the 

 stomach and cause trouble. All breads given to babies should be twice baked 

 or brown and stale. The Zwiebach biscuit is one of the best ready prepared 

 breads. 



All mothers should be careful to not nurse their children too long, as the 

 child at about ten months begins to change and needs something stronger, 

 and the mother's milk begins to deteriorate and take on a poison known as 

 ptomaine. The child will gradually get thin, pale and irritable. The time 

 has come for other things to be given to supply the nourishment needed. 

 This is a call for a knowledge of dietetics and the value of foods. 



And the Girls. 



LuLA M. Cassidey. 



The clear note that has been sounded throughout the land for rural uplift 

 has aroused every institution for welfare to definite lines of activity looking 

 to standardizing country life. The agricultural, health, and educational 

 forces of the State and nation are striving, each in its individual way, to 

 aid in the solution of the rural problem, and it is very evident that the 

 standards are advancing. Many of the agencies which are busy in the work 

 are dealing with the adult, endeavoring to serve the present generation. This 

 is vital work, and a great evolution along all lines of rural progress is the 



