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lay like brave soldiers after a battle, their limbs rigid in the_ contorted attitudes of death. At first gbinco they thought that their car was a wreck. It had been lifted and hurled on its side against a partially dismantled stone wall. It was half hidden by tho branch of a tree and its rear wheels wero partly buried in mud and debris. As they stood silent and awe-stricken amidst the manifestation of the insignificance of man. the sun burst forth from behinei a laggard cloud. Tho effect was theatrical. It was the throwing of a limelight on a scene w-hich marks the climax of some tense situation. Instinctively they lifted their bands and cheered for sheer joy. "What care we for wrecked motor cars anel wet clothing?" he shouted. "It is splendid to live," sho cried. Then they returned to earth and the bedraggled motor car. At the end of an hour's hard work the machine gavo its first sure sign of returning consciousness, and a few minutes later tho reel monster stood coughing in the roadway. Waving a kindly farewell to the shelter which had saved them, they took the back lane until they came to a road which led away from the course of tho tornado. y Mr and Mrs John Henry Smitli aro still partial to the charms of the country near the old stone culvert. . OUR BABIES. ♦ (Br Btcei—) ("Weekly Press and Referee.") Some two years ago wo published an I article on "Top-Milk" and as we still havo enquiries on the subject from ! timo to timo wo think the following [ notes will be helpful:— j It is better to use the term **TopMilk" and not 'thin cream" when speaking of the upper fourth of milk ! which has been set for the preparation of Humanised Milk r . Mothers sometimes worry because what they expect to be cream appears too thin and more like milk. It is quite true that the lower stratum of the 10oz to be removed from tho quart of milk usually sot (to make 30oz of Humanised Milk) is not only not cream, but is, indeed, not oven milk. The lowest layer of tho lOoz is merely "skim-milk," but the layer on the very surface is thick cream, twice as strong as wo want, and the layers between tho top and bottom are of intermediate strength, which diminishes steaelily as we descend from 20 per cent, to 2 per cent. Imagine tho "Top-Milk" to bo composed of 10 layers of an ounce each —tho top layers very rich in fat and the bottom layers very poor (mere skim-milk, in fact)—then tho blending of-, all these layers will give a "TopMilk" of tho required strength—not what would ordinarily bo called "cream," but a "Top-Milk" about three times as rich in fat as the milk from which it is derived. It may be asked, "Why not use tho term '12 per cent. Cream' instead of 'Top-Milk'?" as being more definite and precise. The objection is that the percentage of fat in the cream will vary between 9 and 12 per cent., according to the quality of tho milk, and to other factors, such as the time expiring between milking anel setting for cream, tho rapidity and degree of cooling w-hich *;an be brought about, etc. Tho richer the milk the sooner it is set after milking, and the greater tho chilling that can be effected (short of freezing) tho richer will be tho "Top-Milk." Any which , contains between 9 and 12 per cent, fat will yield a Humanised Milk with between 3 and 4 per cent, of fat in it, which is as close as we need go for an ordinary practical standard. The range of variation ot "fat-content" in human milk is as much as or more than this. When preparing Humanised Milk, some mothers, after taking, what appears to be all the cream from the quart sot, add some moro cream from the household milk, becauso they wish to do tho best possible for their babies. They do not pause to consider that, by departing from the instructions in this way, they are giving their babies too large a proportion of fat, and so tending to upset them, besides altering tho proper relative proportions of sugar, fat, and proteid which are essential for the best nutrition of their infants. As cases like the above have been brought to our notice on several occasions, tho term "thin-cream" has been cut out of the recipes in the new book we are issuing. The term "Top-Milk" only is now used. '■ - HUMANISED MILK. It may not be out of place here to state that the recipes advocated for the preparation of Humanised Milk have been arrived at after most careful study and calculation, and havo been frequently tested by analysis. They have now boon used practically unnltereel -for seven years throughout' New Zealand. The testimony received by the Society from end to end of the Dominion as to the success in practice and tho simplicity of usage of tho recipes leaves no room for doubt. Tho advantage of systematic and methodical feeding, founded on the actual composition of Human Milk, compareel with mere guessing and tbo careless [ slip-shod use of Cow's Milk and Cane Sugar, or still- more the use of Patent Foods or Condensed Milk cannot now be seriously questioned. ! NATURAL FEEDING. j Readers must not imagine for a mo- '■ ment that tho -Society advocates the use of Humanised Milk or any other artificial food. What it does aelvocate, anel wishes to see practiseet in every case, where possible, is natural feeding ;by a healthy mother who attends to the maintenance of her own health, and who gives her baby all the other e-ssentinls for health in addition to the inestimable gift of its proper food. Warning. Let mc here warn mothers who aro feeding their bubies naturally that breast-feeding alone is not sufficient to ensure gootl health. Fresh air, exercise, regularity of all habits, including times for nursing baby, are as important for your infants as for those which are bottle-fed. Always feed baby at the proper tinus whether asleep or awake. If necessary, wake him. Some babies take their 10 p.m. feeding while practically asleep. It is only when for any reason a baby cannot have its birthright that we say, with all the intensity of which we are capable, that he ought to have the nearest approach to his natural food which it is possible for us to pre- ! pare. Even if the preparation were difficult it is surely the least we can do to make up, as far as may be, for our failure to provide proper nourishment. However, the preparing of Humanised Milk is really quite easy. It takes less time to prepare a 24 hours' supply than it takes to make the cake or pude'.ing lor the household which nowadays seems to be so necessary an article of daily diet. Messrs Baldwin and Ray ward. Gloucester street, Christchurch. report that amongst the many applications for patents they have just filed are:—S. R. Williams (Auckland), luggage laliol: L. S. Barrell (Hawera), milk release; G. Gruinwald (Koputarua). acetylene gas generator; W. H. Osborn anel" D. J. C. MeCauley (Bendigo. Victoria), rainwater filter; R. Latta tOwaka). sawbench roller attachment. " 7