CHILDREN IN SPRINGTIME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)

CHILDREN IN SPRINGTIME.

The first " real spring days," lovely as they are, often mean a. very trying time to the mother of small children. The little people are irritable and easily tired. Spring medicine, in the form of sulphur tablets, or magnesia, or "salts," or the old-fashioned brimstone and treacle, is

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not really necessary, v For spring supplies her own medicines; rhubarb is one of them, and " spring greens *' another. Grapes, when they arrive, will do the little people far more good than physic. Black treacle is a very safe aperient, so let the children have this on their bread-and-butter; honey will do Ahem more good than jam, while little mustard-and-cress sandwiches will be an inexpensive addition to the tea-table, and will be eaten eagerly by even ; the ' most listless sufferer from spring-time lassitude. '( Do «member that the fresh-air-and-exercise spirit may be carried decidedly too far, especially in the spring-time. If a chili* who has had to play indoors a good deal of the winter is suddenly launched into an active garden-life, he will almost certainly get.over-tired, stand about in the " draughts " which are by no means unknown in small gardens arid suburban side-way and end up with "one of those nasty spring colda." It is no ©se saying the children ought'. to be out all day long when. the weather is fine; they need rest, and they cannot rest out-of-doors at this time of the year— they can in summer the only wise course is to let them rest indoors now "and ; again.

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