LET THE CHILDREN SLEEP.

Otago Witness, Issue 1323, 7 April 1877, Page 19

LET THE CHILDREN SLEEP.

We earnestly advise that all who think a great deal, who have to work hard, to take all the sleep they can get without medical means.

We caution parents particularly not to allow their children to be waked up of a morning — let nature wake them up ; she will not do it prematurely ; but have a care that they go to bed at an early hour. Let it be early, until it is found that they wake up themselves in full time to dress for breakfast.

Being waked up early, and allowed to engage in difficult or any studies lats, and just before retiring, has given many a beautiful and promising child the brain fever, or determined ordinary ailments to the production of water on the brain.

Let parents make every possible effort to have their children go to sleep in a pleasant humour. Never scold or give lectures, or in any way wound a child's feelings as it goes to bed. Let all banish business and every worldly care at bedtime, and let sleep come to a mind at peace with God and all the world.

Baking Apples. — Buy a small tin applecorer ; core with it as many apples as you want, without peeling them ; set them on a tin dish ; place this in a hot oven, having first filled up the vacancies left by your surgery with the best of sugar. Let them bake till they are well done. Take them out, and if you do not know what to do next, call in your nearest and beat friends for further advice.

Deied Geeek Peas. — Wash the peas, pour boiling soft water over them, sufficient to cover. Let them stand over night. Stew them for several hours, or until they are soft and pulpy. Add boiling water occasionally, and keep them covered closely while cooking. Add half a cup of cream and a little salt, and boil ten minutes ; then dish up.