ADVICE TO YOUNG MOTHERS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 352, 5 February 1903, Page 3

ADVICE TO YOUNG MOTHERS.

Dont' feed the baby'Vith a spoon. The proper. mothers' milk. *"*"*" ,' "^j Fresh air is the breath of Ate in a baby's nostrils. Keep the baby/clean and it will Stand the heat better. Don't stick the/nipple in *he baby's mouth every time it cries. Remember, the baby needs a drink of water as nrueh as you do. Dp not let/the baby sleep in the ©Sine bed with any other person. Don't drug the baby with patent medicines,- but if sick call a doctor. When the baby is between the ages of one and six months, prepare its milk -to suit its age. Don't overfeed the baby; there is more danger of giving too much at a,time than too little. ""/ Wait till the baby gets its teeth »' before you put food into its mouth that needs to be chewed. , Use a common bottle fflr feeding with a rubber nipple and"nb tube, and keep bottle and nipple-clean by'boiling and scrubbing. ,*■"' m If the breast milk gives out or for any reason other means of feeding become necessary, get the best milk ,you can affor4, and make it as nearly like mothers' milk as possible.

ALL ENGLISH.

There are almost 120,000 free masons registered under the great lodge of •England. They belong to 2,320 lodges: • The average weight of an, English boy of ten is 67 pounds; of a)man of 30," 156 pounds; of a mam'of 60, 162 .pounds.; :%Z■■■'■■■■-' I fti*-■;'j *%.i\ England has 91 joint v stock banks, with 3,179 branches; Scotland ten, with 1,019 branches; Ireland nine| with 513 branches. . ,- -'' " «■• Norwegian shipping comes first of foreign nations in-'British portsw She clears 6,000,000 tons a year,, against 4,000,000 from Germany. Two tons of beet are equal in feeding value tq : four tons of hay, but its cultivation has. pi-qvedr.-to.o expensive to be profitable to English farmers. The avei'age British resident gets in a year /by post 54' letters, nine postcards, 17 book packets and circulars, four and about two parcels. Although the value of the late mar-, quis of Bute's property exceeded $25,000,000, the amount on which inheritance duty could be levied was only $4,840,000. The tax was $392,000.

GOSSIP OF THE STAGE.

Sarah Bernhardt has such a horror of fires that every things-tie wears on the stage is made of fireproof materials. --■>■-••'' '-•;'■*" Mme. Qd.ilon. (Counte*ss Kakoffski),the most famous of German actress.es, plays only for love, of her art, being many times over al-miiilionaire.' In Austrian theaters no one.-is permitted to appear on tire stage in a uniform bearing;: any resemblance! to thosje'used in the array of that country. ./.... Emma Calve said in a recent interview in.Paris that she'had "now only One, ambition, and that was to become air actress. "1 have made a success as a grand opera singer," she is reported as ;sayiug. ; "I am rich, too. But what I now want to be able to dp is to move people by acting as 1 have already done by my singing."

IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.

- The makers of fire engines have formed a combination, with a capital of $9,000,000'. ~ The Chinese population of the United is decreasing and the Japanese population is increasing. ' ■A writer in, the Public Library Bulletin says that the iirst ffee public library ever that of fPetersboro, N. H., in According to Bridge Commissioner Shea's report New York owns 78 bridges,' costing $24,792,510, not..counting 439 structures .-Of a bridge-Jike •har'acter' that are described as part of the high ways,,, hnd not counting several bridges in, the course of construction and oa which several million dollars have been expended.