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Another  Point  of  View 
|  Reading  the  article  in  a  recent  number 
'  of  The  R.  N.-Y.  of  the  man  who  ‘‘Trusted 
Widely,  but  Not  Well,”  makes  me  want 
to  say  a  few  words  on  the  subject.  He 
certainly  deserves  our  sympathy,  but  that 
can  do  him  but  little  good.  But  it  brings 
to  my  mind  the  thought  of  how  often  we 
know  of  quite  similar  cases,  only  it  is  a 
woman  who  is  concerned,  and  who  is  be¬ 
coming  discouraged  instead  of  the  man. 
For  instance,  we  have  perhaps  all  known 
of  a  case  where  a  man’s  first  wife  dies 
and  he  is  left  with  one  or  more  children, 
and  perhaps  some  debts,  and  he  later 
marries  a  single  woman  for  his  second 
wife,  not  liking  the  idea  of  two  families 
of  children  together,  and  also  often  not 
wanting  to  take  care  of  ‘‘some  other  man’s 
children.”  That  is  all  right,  but  he  does 
not  hesitate  to  ask  the  second  wife  to 
help  take  care  of  “some  other  woman’s 
children,”  and  oftentimes  she  does  it  with 
all  the  interest  and  care  and  devotion — 
and  love,  too,  if  the  children  will  let  her —  i 
that  lies  in  her  power.  She  is  hard-work-  1 
ing  and  economical,  helping  her  husband 
in  his  business  to  the  best  of  her  ability. 
They  get  out  of  debt,  perhaps  buy  more 
land.  The  children  grow  up  and  go  to 
homes  of  their  own,  and  it  is  then,  as  she 
finds  she  is  going  down  on  the  other  side, 
that  she  begins  to  realize  all  her  years  of 
toil  and  care  and  trying  to  save  and  help 
along  will  all  go  in  the  end  to  benefit 
“some  other  woman’s  children,”  and  she 
has  not  the  power  nor  the  privilege  (in 
ninety-nine  cases  out  of  a  hundred)  to 
bequeath  even  $10  of  what  she  has  worked 
hard  to  help  accumulate  to  one  of  her 
own  dear  ones,  though  she  may  have  a 
sister,  a  nephew,  or  niece  who  may  be 
just  as  deserving  and  who  may  be  just 
as  much  in  need  of  a  helping  hand  as  the 
others.  Is  this  fair?  Is  it  right?  If 
men  would  stop  and  think  they  would 
readily  see  what  a  depressing,  discourag¬ 
ing  effect  this  condition  of  affairs  would 
have  on  them  if  the  situation  was  re¬ 
versed.  I  hope  there  may  be  some  who 
will,  before  it  is  too  late,  give  this  en¬ 
couragement  and  happiness  to  the  one 
who  has  been  their  faithful  helper  that 
is  truly  hers  by  right.  I  had  a  step¬ 
mother  who  was  all  in  our  home  that  I 
have  tried  to  picture,  and  cared  for  me 
and  my  brothers  younger  with  all  the 
interest  and  devotion  possible,  but,  I  am 
sorry  to  say,  her  last  years  were  sad  and 
discouraged  ones  for  this  very  reason. 
New  York.  o.  b. 
Fruit  for  Whooping  Cough 
On  page  1526  you  show  the  whooping 
cough  party,  and  I  hope  I  will  not  be  mis¬ 
understood  if  I  send  in  a  protest,  or  rather 
a  suggestion,  on  the  refreshments  served 
to  these  afflicted  little  ones.  I  am  sure 
Mrs.  McMahan  meant  only  the  happiness 
and  well-being  of  the  little  ones,  and  so 
ask  her — and  others  to  believe  that  I  only 
send  in  this  suggestion  because  I  firmly 
believe  it  will  be  helpful  to  anyone  con¬ 
tending  with  this  terrible  cough. 
I  A  child  with  whooping  cough  should  be 
kept  on  a  strictly  fruit  diet  for  at  least 
five  weeks.  Under  no  consideration 
!  should  it  have  any  food  containing  sugar 
or  flour.  Now  do  not  think  your  child 
will  lose  strength  and  starve.  It  will 
lose  strength  during  the  cough,  anyway,- 
no  matter  what  the  diet.  But  the  usual 
diet  will  keep  the  stomach  working,  and 
therefore  aggravate  the  cough,  as  it  is  a 
stomach  cough.  But  fruits,  especially 
juicy  ones,  and  raw  when  possible,  are 
easy  on  the  stomach,  and  will  not  form 
mucus  as  sweetened  cooked  foods.  I  am 
speaking  from  experience,  as  I  have 
nursed  some  terrible  cases  of  this  disease 
before  I  heard  of  this  fruit  idea.  This 
was  more  than  20  years  ago,  but  I  can 
still  hear  those  terrible  strangling  spells. 
So  last  Summer  when  my  own  little  girl 
had  it,  I  held  faithfully  to  the  fruit,  with 
the  result  that  she  never  strangled  nor 
had  one  real  long-drawn  whoop.  She  lost 
6  lbs.  in  weight,  but  it  came  right  back 
when  the  coughing  passed.  For  five  weeks 
she  had  only  fruit,  and  I  think  if  I  had 
started  her  on  it  a  week  sooner,  when 
the  preliminary  cough  began,  she  would 
have  been  even  better  off.  Did  I  hear 
someone  ask  how  I  know  she  would  have 
been  any  worse  if  I  had  let  her  eat  as 
usual?  Because  a  dietitian  told  me  I 
could  safely  give  her  carrots  and  lettuce, 
and  the  first  meal  of  it  lost  us  a  night’s 
'  sleep.  T  stopped  the  vegetables,  and  all 
went  well  again.  Then  my  little  lady 
;  tried  a  few  cookies,  unknown  to  her 
mother- — result  the  same — then  some 
green  beans  were  surreptitiously  con¬ 
sumed — again  result  the  same. 
Now  I  know  many  of  you  think  this  j 
child  should  have  had  milk.  That  would  } 
be  a  case  of  watching  an  individual  case. 
I  think.  As  to  my  child,  she  will  not 
drink  milk,  and  will  only  eat  butter  when 
melted  into  hot  potato  or  toast.  But  if 
a  child  likes  dear  butter,  I  would  most 
certainly  let  it  eat  all  it  wanted  during 
whooping  cough.  As  to  milk.  I  have 
found  it  has  a  tendency  to  cause  a  person 
with  any  kind  of  a  cough  to  produce  long 
strings  of  mucus,  and  is  much  worse  with 
whooping  cough.  Then  why  not  feed  a 
child  that  which  will  keep  it  the  most 
comfortable?  motueb. 
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