NURSERY CATECHISM.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9812, 23 August 1897, Page 3

NURSERY CATECHISM.

Ladies* Home Journal*

Question : How will a good nurse keep the nursery ? Answer: Clean, well aired, and the. right heat and light. Q. How often should a nursery be aired j A. The air should be changed whenever the children leave the room for a walk or meal.. Q. How can fresh ai rbe let in while children are in the room ? A. From the top of the window, or by placing a board under the lower part of the window which can be raised a few inches. Q. How about the heat and light? A. Sunshine should be let in in winter, and softened in summer. Q. If you would have the children love you, what must you do ? A. Be patient, cheerful, truthful, and decided. Q. Why cheerful? A. Because the lives of little children should not be saddened. Q. Why patient ? A. That you may never pull, push, or strike a child in anger. Q. Why truthful? A. Children should never be deceived' they will scon learn not to tell the truth if you do not. Q. What will save great trouble ? A. Never to threaten great punishment for little things. Never threaten and not perform, request rather than order. Q. Why decided? A. Because a child will usually yield to a quiet, decided manner. Q. What are the things you must do for little children ? A. Wash, dress, feed, and take out for fresh air, and put to bed. Q. Of what must you be careful in washing a child ? A. Not to bathe it in a cold room or draught, and not to get soap into its eyes or mouth, or let the water run into its ears. Q. Of what must you be careful in dressing children? A. To arrange all the clothes (well ; aired) before you take the child from its bed or play. To put in safety pins carefully, and not to use common pins or tie any strings too tightly. Q. What rules for feeding, &c? A. Never give food or medicine without directions, and to have the right warmth and seasoning for food, and right quantity for medicine; also write down hours for same. Q. What rules should you follow in taking children out ? A. Never take a child into any house without permission of its mother. Be careful about sunstroke in summer, and cold draughts in winter. Q. How should a child be treated when put to bed or awakened ? A. Touched gently and spoken to softly and kindly. Never let a child sob itself to sleep, or be awakened with a loud rough voice.—A Norse. Mr L., a broad-minded Pressman, met Mr C, a Prohibitionist, the other day. " That's a nasty cough you've got," said v. "Come and have a rum hot; it'll do you good.". "No thanks ; Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for mc ; it beats all your urn hots for coughs and colds, it's sold very where."—[Ad vt.] Nature now supplies the inhabitants of Boise City, Idaho, with hot water. The hot water comes to the surface of the plain at the base of the mountains two miles above the city. Seven years ago, capitalists sunk \ three six-inch tubes 455 ft, obtaining a steady flow under a strong' subterranean pressure of about 1,800,000 gallons daily. The wells are connected with mainit; by which the hot water i 3 led to the city, and to which service-pipes are connected, leading the water into the building, where it is madia to pass through the coils, similar to steamheaters. The natural pressure iv the city ia forty pounds per square inch, and the heat is reflated by waste-cocks, increase of How increasing,beat. Rates are charged cv the basis of the size of waste, and are but little higher than coal. Nearly all large buildings and many dwellings use it exclusively for heatinc The water leaves the wells at 170% and lose, only 5° travelling; two miles, as the mains are. substantially nou-conductors of heat. The waters are 'highly mineralised,' but are unfit for table purposes, though excellent for akin diwwwee- and battling.

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