AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



655 



Our Bqctors Himts. 



By F. L. PEIRO, M. D. 



McVieker's Building, Chicago, III. 



Tlie Care of Clilldreu. 



O Ignorance, how much suffering is laid 

 upon your broad altar, the] fires on which 

 are not quenched by torrents of human 

 tears! Are you destined forever to hold 

 us in bondage, that our cries and sufferings 

 may rise to your indifferent senses, and be 

 unheeded ? Will the day ever come when 

 the intelligence, or even the thoughtful- 

 ness, of our humanity may free us from 

 your enthralling grasp ? If so, Heaven 

 speed the day that, at least, our children 

 may be spared the results of our seeming 



How the heart goes out in deepest sym- 

 pathy for the little child so unfortunate as 

 to be in the care of those reckless fools who 

 lift, swing and jerk the little one's arms as 

 it is often seen done ! There go that man 

 and woman — whom it is a sacrilege to call 

 its father or mother — arrived at that ditch, 

 and taking each a hand of the little one, 

 jerk it across as they jump over! That its 

 arms are not dislocated at the shoulder is 

 no credit to their contemptible folly. Many 

 a child's arms have been put out of joint in 

 this criminal manner, and when the child 

 has cried with resulting pain, been whipped 

 for its protest. Far better had that man 

 taken the tender burden and carried it in 

 safety. 



Many a cripple has had to suffer a life of 

 humiliation and pain because of such fool- 

 hardy practices. Many a poor hunch-back 

 has been made so by being thrown up in 

 the air when a babe and its spine weakened 

 and curved. Many a " pigeon breasted " 

 child owes his deformity to being swung 

 repeatedly by the arms. Many a sufferer 

 from hip-joint disease— from crooked legs— 

 from dislocations— from enlarged and stiff 

 knees— from permanently paralyzed lower 

 extremities, conditions worse than death 

 itself, are to-day walking illustrations of 

 the ignorant cruelty of those whose bounden 

 duty it is to protect their little ones with 

 their very life, if need be. Little need or 

 value to deplore these results in after 

 years. Loving care and reasonable judg- 

 ment would have avoided the evils that 

 now no physician can heal. 



Dr. C. C. miller's Cisterns. 



Anent the questions asked on page 471 

 by that hard-headed, soft-hearted brother, 

 I am a little "stumped." He says he luouH 

 build a root-house, and so that point is 

 settled. 



Now, as to reconciling his ill-smelling 

 cistern next to his residence, I can offer 

 little consolation. A man of so clear per- 

 ception need not be told how dangerous it 

 is to have bad smells so near his home, and 

 the feasibility of filling up the said cistern 

 with nice, clean gravel, must occur to him. 



I cannot recommend that he burn the 

 house— the law does not permit me to be a 

 party to the crime of arson. Nor could I, 

 from humanitarian reasons, advise a meas- 

 ure that would likely insure the destruction 

 of a whole menagerie of fleet and creeping 

 things; four-footed, many-legged, and 

 winged inhabitants. To disturb so large 

 and domesticated family would be cruel in 

 the extreme ! 



Only another suggestion occurs how Dr. 

 Miller may "make that cistern sweet:" 

 Dump in all the honey and sugar you can 

 find : I think that'll do it. 



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