684 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



wear, or for any other trivial reason. If a child cannot 

 be properly clothed, it should be sent to bed and kept 

 there until the proper garments can be provided for it. 

 The excuse which mothers often make for carelessness 

 in this f)articular, that ''they have been too busy" to 

 make the necessary garments for the little one who has 

 outgrown its old clothing, is no justification for such 

 neglect ; and it will generally be found that the required 

 time has been worse than wasted in the preparation of 

 unwholesome dishes which will have no other influ- 

 ence than to deprave the taste and to undermine the 

 health of husband and children, or in the entertain- 

 ment of fashionable friends who are themselves squan- 

 dering, in the discussion of the latest fashions or the 

 most recent scandal suit, valuable time which belongs 

 properly to their children. 



The clotliing of the child at night is also a matter 

 of importance. As a rule, flannel nightgowns should 

 be worn, as by this means the little one avoids the chill 

 often given by coming in contact with cotton or linen 

 sheets, and is better protected from the chilly night air 

 if, as is often the case, it becomes uncovered in the 

 night by the displacement of the bed covers through 

 its restlessness. 



POPULAR MEDICAL EDUCATION 



For some years in the past there has been much 

 discussion among promient physicians respecting the 

 propriety of encouraging the education of the common 

 people in medical subjects. Among a certain class of 

 the profession there has been great opposition to the 

 popularization of medical subjects, it being claimed 



