ones out of
doors a while every day, but all do not see the necessity of the same
mode of life for themselves. Dr. Nathan S. Davis has said: "I have
persuaded thousands of mothers to try fresh air, instead of wine or
beer, with gratifying results." The mother who takes her babe out,
herself, for its daily airing, is laying up stores of health and
vitality, to aid her in providing for the needs of the little one,
dependent upon her.

Good digestion is as essential as good appetite. Alcohol, whether in
beer, wine, whisky, or any other form, is injurious to the stomach, and
a hinderer of digestion, hence must do harm, rather than good, to the
mother in search of added nourishment for her babe.

Dr. Condi says:--

"The only drink of the nurse should be water or milk. All
fermented and distilled liquors, as well as strong tea and
coffee, she should strictly abstain from. Never was there a more
absurd or pernicious notion than that wine, ale or porter is
necessary to a nursing mother in order to keep up her strength,
or to increase the quantity, and improve the properties of her
milk. So far from producing these effects, such drinks, when
taken in any quantity, invariably disturb more or less the
health of the stomach, and tend to impair the quality, and
diminish the quantity, of nourishment furnished by her to her
infant."

Dr. William Hargreaves says:--

"Every farmer knows that all a healthy cow requires to give good
milk and butter is, to give her good feed, and pure water; and
he also knows that the way to make a cow give poor watery milk,
which they might churn until doomsday without obtaining butter,
is to feed her on distillery slops, or grains from the brewery.
It is also well known that cheese cannot be made from such milk,
it being deficient in curd, or casein.

"Alcohol is not only useless but injurious; for children whose
mothers try to keep themselves upon beer, etc., very frequently
suffer from vomiting and diarrhoea, and often from
convulsions. Sometimes a single glass of whisky, taken by the
mother, will produce sickness and indigestion in the child, for
twenty-four hours after.

"In the milk of a healthy woman the water ranges from 879 to 905
parts in 1,000. The oily substance ranges from 25 to 42; casein
from 15 to 39; sugar of milk from 31 to 45, and the salts from 1
to 4 parts in 1,0