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seen mentioned. Butter, however, is now often made from 

 boiled milk. 



Here is a receipt for boiling milk for butter or keep- 

 ing : Let the milk stand for twelve hours in an open tin, 

 then put it on the stove, and let it just bubble round the 

 edges. Take it off, let it stand another twelve hours, and 

 then make the butter. 



The popular impression is that separated milk is useless 

 as human food. Yet I believe it is now acknowledged by 

 scientific investigators that the nourishing and life-giving 

 properties of milk remain when the cream is taken off, the 

 cream containing nothing but the fat. Of course, to 

 children and many people fat is desirable, but can be 

 obtained in many other ways. 



The newspapers of the last few months have been so 

 full of this most interesting question of tuberculosis in 

 cows that it seems almost superfluous to allude to it. 

 Yet nurseries are so under the power of women who, 

 however good and devoted, are uneducated, and therefore 

 bigoted in their opinions, that it is as well to caution 

 young mothers not to yield to what might seem to them 

 the greater experience of the nurse. I did it myself, 

 having as my nurse one of the best of women, who had 

 brought up several babies. All the same, I think now I 

 was wrong ; but in my youth the rules of health were in the 

 dark ages compared to what they are now. To-day every 

 young mother should learn for herself what is the last and 

 the most approved theory as regards food and fresh air. On 

 one subject science and Nature go hand in hand, and lead 

 more and more to the belief that the only really right 

 nourishment for a baby is what Nature provides. In the 

 ' upper classes ' it has become in my life-time rarer and 

 rarer for young mothers to nurse their own children. 

 When I was young the only women who were supposed 

 to be good wet-nurses were the Irish; and why was 



