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then, getting into a passion, or a mood for playing the tyrant, we turn upon, 

 and govern them as if we were autocrats. We submit to their whims until we 

 grow irritable, and then, by way of retaliation, we compel them to submit to 

 ours. This is all wrong. Children should be govermd always, but with an even, 

 a gentle, and a loving hand. They sliould early be subjected to habits of self- 

 control, and of regularity in eating, and sleeping; and should be taught abso- 

 lute and continued obedience. All this can be brouglit about only by firmness, 

 self-control, and great gentleness on the part of parents. If they would make 

 a child cheerful and happy in its disposition, they must themselves be cheerful, 

 and never let it see anger, passion, and fretf ulness, marring their conduct. Noth- 

 ing is more injurious to the health of a child than a peevish, complaining, and 

 soured disposition; and these vices are seldom acquired, unless seen in the lives 

 of parents. 



1. DISEASES OP CHILDREN— Prickly Heat, Dysentery, 

 Diarrhea, etc. — Eemedies. — Mrs. Jay, of Fern Grove, 111., reports through 

 the Blade, that an experienced physician taught her the following, in caring for 

 children broken out with prickly heat: 



1. Keep them as cool as possible. 



II. For a child of 2 years, give 3^ tea-spoonful of cream tartar in the morn 

 ing, for a few mornings. 



III. Bathe them in tepid (a little warm) water, with a little soda in it, every 

 night. It is also good to have a tubful of water (the chill off, of course), and 

 let the child splatter in it for about fifteen minutes. 



IV. When the heat breaks out in little pimples, which are all sore, grease 

 them over with fresh (unsalted) grease of any kind; then dust over with pul 

 verized starch, at least once a day, to keep them from smarting. 



2. Dysentery, Diarrhea, etc., of Children, Cordial for.— Tliii 

 lady continues: I. These little ones require much care during warm 

 weather, with their dysenteries, diarrheas, etc , from teething. I have found the 

 blackberry balsam, as I call it. a most excellent remedy, but when the disease is 

 of long standing, and there seems to be pain and soreness of the bowels, it is best 

 to keep them very quiet, scarcely rocking them (so the doctor told me) and 

 apply spirits of turpentine over the bowels. Take a cloth dampened with the 

 turpentine, large enough to extend up over the stomach, as well as to cover the 

 bowels, and leave it on long enough to cause redness, but not to blister. Then 

 take it off, and when the redness goes away, apply again, until it seems to be 

 out of pain, or easier, or: - 



II. Onion Povlticfs — Applied in the same way. are very good; but the tur- 

 pentine, if at hand, acts quicker. Onion poultice is made by chopping, or 

 slicing, 2 onions into a spider with a little water and cooking well, then spread 

 on a cloth. 



Remarlcs. — This cooking of the onion, accounts to the author, for their not 

 acting as quickly as the turpentine ; mash them and lay them on raw, and I 

 think they will act as quickly and as effectually as the others. Her balsam is 



