Then It Is Better Not To Use Any Tubing At All?

"Well, no mother can afford to have disease-breeding tubiner attached to the nursing bottle if she wants her babe to live. The bottle should hold about a hait-pint, should have a sloping neck and oval bottom, that it may be easily cleaned with a brush or sterilized cotton. The nipple should be attached direct to the neek of the bottle and be so constructed that it can be turned inside out and thoroughly cleaned. The bottles should be washed in borax water and then boiled.'"

"Some people will say that all these precautions are a good deal of trouble."

"That is true; but not half as much as a sick baby. Those who would rather have their babies in the cemetery need not take the trouble."

Will The Method Of Feeding You Have Outlined Insure Healthy Children?

"As a general rule it will, but not always, and when milk disagrees, other methods are resorted to. It sometimes happens that the prepared foods will agree with a child when milk will not."

Are The Prepared Infant Foods Made Of Milk?

"Well, there are milk preparations, such as Horlick's malted milk, but most of the prepared foods are made of starch, dextrinized, or partly digested, by diastase, or other methods. They sometimes serve a good purpose, but even though they make a child fat, they are seldom healthy."

In The Event That Milk Disagrees, What Is To Be Done?

"That may happen because the child gets too much or too rich milk. In such cases, a less quantity should be given, or the milk may be reduced by adding a little more water, and not so much sugar. If the child is not sick, but does not thrive, the milk may not be rich enough. It must be remembered that infants do not all require foods of equal richness or the same ingredients, and that milk varies much, depending on the breed and the feed of the cows. In the Summer, milk is richer in dry weather than in wet, because the grass is drier and richer."

Is It Advisable To Give Meat Broths Or Other Foods To Young Children?

"Yes; broths made of Jean beef, chicken or veal, may be used instead of milk, for short periods, when there is indigestion or diarrhoea. They should be made by macerating chopped lean meat in cold water and then pressed. The juice should be warmed, but not boiled. Cold water absorbs much more of the nutritious part of meat than hot. Broths made with hot water are not nourishing. Some children thrive on cream gruel."

How Is It Made?

"Take rolled oats and add three and a half times its bulk of cold water. Boil an hour and a half, or until it is dissolved to a pulp. Strain through a fine colander (sieve) while hot (the strained portion should be about the consistency of jelly when cold).

"To the strained oatmeal add an equal part of sweet cream and one or two teaspoonfuls of sugar; then add three to four times the bulk of both oatmeal and cream of boiling water. This should be an admirable food for children eight or ten months old, although children five months old have done as well as they could possibly have done on any food."

Why Is It Objectionable For Children Under Eight Months?

"It is claimed that young babies do not digest starch, and some eminent authorities say they should not have starch before they arc ten months old; others equally good, say that the ability to digest starch commences to develop when the child commences to grow and increases so that it is permissible to give starchy food at six or eight months of age. For very young infants the cream gruel should have malt, or diastase to digest the starch before feeding."

About What Age Should Children Be Weaned?

"It is always advisable for them to nurse through the second summer, if the mother's health permits it, although it is sometimes necessary to wean children very young. At any rate, the weaning should not be begun during the hot season, if it can be avoided, nor under a year, or over eighteen months old."

Should The Nursing Be Suddenly Stopped?

"No; they should be fed cow's milk, modified as directed. It would be better to try two parts water to one of top milk in the beginning of the weaning period. As the child grows, the water may be reduced to one part, instead of two. The milk-feeding should take the place of the mother's nursing at same regular intervals, and the nursings should be dropped gradually, and the weaning cover a period of two months."

Should Children Ever Be Bottle-Fed And Nursed During The Same Period?

"Whenever a child does not thrive, bottle-feeding should be tried for some of the feedings instead of nurs-ing."

When May A Child Be Given Foods Other Than Milk Or Gruel?

"Strained meat broths may be given at almost any age, and next to it is soft-boiled eggs, or eggs stirred into hot, but not boiling, gelatine water. A child cannot masticate solid food until it has teeth, and milk, with sugar, beef or chicken broths, soft eggs, bread and milk, and cereal or starch gruels must form the essential part of every child's diet, until it has teeth. The practice of giving young children solid foods like meats, raw vegetables, raisins and like substances, has been the instrument of death for thousands."

Are Fruits Not Permissible?

"Sour fruit juices are not permissible with milk; but fruits, like apples or peaches, when cooked and free from solid substances, may be given children over a year old."

How Many Meals A Day Should A Child Receive When It Commences To Eat Such Foods As You Have Named?

"From four to five meals a day during a child's second year."

Should Children Be Given Tea Or Coffee?

"Young children must not be given tea, coffee, beer, liquors, or fermented drinks of any kind."