Nursery Notes.

Otago Witness, Issue 2674, 14 June 1905, Page 68

Nursery Notes.

!■•» Littb Matters Worth Considering — — How Air is Made Impure. — By living beings consuming the oxygen in it. By lights burning; they also consumer oxygen. In one hour a man makes 3000 cubic feet of air impure by respiration and expiration. In one hour one gas burner makes 20,000 cubic feet of air impure by consuming ita oxygen. • — A Morning 1 Reminder.-:— This is what an English paper says: — If you have not two nurseries— one for day and one for night use — you must, if you value the children's health, let them, breakfast in the dining room. It is very bad for them to breakfast regularly in the room in which they sleep. It is surely better to put up with a little noise and inconvenience to ensure that the first meal shall be eaten in another room than the sleeping room, which, during breakfast time, should -have mattresses and bedclothes thrown open — also doors and windows. How else can they be thoroughly aired? The bedding of nursery cots should be aired out of doors in the sun on every fine day. Bieakfast in tne garden is an excellent institution in summer. —To Save Shillings. — In some nurserios the breaking of feedingbottles is so frequent that the cost of new ones becomes a considerable item. A hospital physician of experience recommends the use of an ordinary soda-water bottle, or a medicines bottle, with a large teat, as all that can be desired for an infant's feed-ing-bottle. Either of these is a thousand times preferable to either the feeding-bottle with a long tube or the bottle with a screw top and washer, both of which kinds all doctors condemn, as utterly unhygienic and frequently the ca. sse of diarrhoea and other stomach troubles. The large indiarubber teat can be bought at any chemist's. Ifc should be soaked in hot water, and can then be drawn on to any sized bottle-mouth. It must be kept scrupulously ofean, and be frequently washed in a weak solution of borax and water. It must be well rinsed before use. — Remember. — That the hole in the teat of the bottle should be neither too large nor too small. If too large, the child will gulp too quickly. If too small, he may be practically half starved, because he will be exhausted in his efforts to draw the milk through the tiny hole _ The way to know whether the aperture is the right size is to invert the bottle. The milk should drop from it at the rato of about one drop per second.