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for all the happiness and good cheer of your life, else you 

 will sometimes be disappointed and disheartened. Di- 

 verting occupations, friendship, good books, and the care 

 and companionship of children, will healthfully fill any 

 voids in your heart that otherwise might ache ; and at 

 any rate you will be cared for none the less if you prove 

 yourself able to worry along without constant adoration. 

 In a word, take care of yourself physically, mentally, 

 and spiritually, and we shall see fewer sad-faced, hope- 

 less-eyed women in our farm-homes, and fewer bereaved 

 husbands casting about for their second and third wives. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 REARING AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN. 



Every mother should bear in mind that it is easier to 

 keep children well than it is to cure them after they be- 

 come ill. A few simple rules, faithfully and unflinch- 

 ingly observed, would banish nine-tenths of the sicknesses 

 among children that too often lead to fatal results. 



Give them in the first place plenty of love expressions 

 of love ! Oftentimes fathers and mothers deeply love 

 their children, yet show such little evidence of affection 

 that the children are apt to have a forlorn feeling that it 

 doesn't exist at all. An occasional word of praise, a 

 caress, an expression of sympathy these are necessary to 

 healthy and happy child-life as summer-showers to grow- 

 ing vines. Especially bear this in mind, they should never 

 go to bed cold, or hungry, or unhappy. 



Let them have plenty of healthy and palatable food, 

 at regular hours. Small children should have a slice of 

 bread and butter, or an apple, or some simple "bite," 

 half way between meals, and nothing more in the Way of 



