sonable excuse for the crying, does it
not prove the folly of walking the floor? If it wants a drink of water,
or if its diaper is wet, how is walking the floor going to cure it, or
how can you expect the baby to stop crying when you so unjustly construe
its reasonable and its only way of asking a favor? If walking the floor
stops its crying, it stops it by exhausting the child, not by relieving
it of its little ailment.

JOUNCING OR HOBBLING BABY.--This is another habit that should be frowned
upon. So many persons are addicted to this form of baby torture, that it
is astonishing more immediate harm does not result from it. Be
particularly careful not to indulge in it, or permit anyone else to do
it immediately after feeding. If you form the habit of putting baby down
at once after each feeding, as you have been instructed to do, the
opportunity to jounce it will not exist. A little reasoning will clearly
convince you that to subject a baby to violent exercise when its stomach
is full would interrupt digestion and so shake the full stomach hat it
would distend it and cause indigestion. You would not think of
exercising yourself after a meal; why exercise a baby?

BABY NEEDS WATER TO DRINK.--Boil a quantity of water each morning, put
in a clean bottle, and keep in a cool place. Give the baby some, three
or four times daily between feedings. One teaspoonful is enough to begin
with, and as it grows older it will take more. It may not always take
the water but it will take what it wants, and it needs some every day;
it is therefore your duty, inasmuch as baby cannot ask for it, to offer
it regularly each day as part of your daily routine.

KISSING

A child should never be kissed on the mouth by anyone, not even its own
parents.

Kissing should not be allowed among children. If any kissing is done it
should be on the brow, never on the mouth, hands, or fingers.

Many diseases are carried by this pernicious habit, and you cannot
afford to have baby's health jeopardized by this promiscuous and
unnecessary liberty.

ESTABLISHING TOILET HABITS

When baby reaches the age of three months, a regular systemized effort
should be made to educate it to "habits of cleanliness." Nothing can be
done in this direction previous to this age, as a child at that period
of its life is scarcely conscious of the natural functions of its body.
Each time a baby, after the third month, is making an effort to move its
bowels, the nurse