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an all the honest effort of these combined forces can neutralize in a year. The rubber comforter is one of the most fertile causes of infection and illness in babies because of the peculiar adaptability to collecting germs which it possesses. When the comforter is finally discarded the habit of sucking is so firmly established that the child will suck its thumb for many years after. This results in further disease and deformity to the growing mouth and throat, and also to the thumb. After a child has used a pacifier or comforter for some time it invariably becomes a mouth breather. A mouth-breathing child is very apt to catch cold and as a consequence of the habit may become catarrhal or tubercular. WHAT CAN BE DONE TO LESSEN THE EVIL EFFECTS OF THE "COMFORTER" HABIT?--It is a most difficult habit to cure when once established. The very least that can be done is to keep the comforter scrupulously clean, washing it several times daily. To have not one, but two or three, kept in a saturated solution of boracic acid, ready to put into the baby's mouth should one be required to replace another that has fallen out. We should furnish a large shield to prevent it being swallowed. We can try the method of weaning the baby from the comforter by tying a ribbon to it and to the child's bodice. The system is gradually to shorten the ribbon until it becomes too short for the baby to suck in comfort. It will then gradually grow away from the habit. FOOD FORMULAS BEEF JUICE.--Take one pound of round steak and broil it slightly. Press the juice out with a lemon squeezer, or, with a meat-press. Season with salt and serve hot or cold as desired. If it is heated after it has once been cold, it should not be overheated as this will coagulate the albumen which will appear as flakes floating on the surface of the juice. BEEF JUICE BY THE COLD PROCESS.--Take one pound of finely chopped round steak, six ounces of cold water, a pinch of salt; place in a covered jar and stand on ice, or in a cool place, six hours. This mixture should be shaken from time to time. Strain and squeeze all the juice out by placing the meat in a coarse cloth and twisting it very hard. Season and feed as above. Beef juice made in this way is more nutritious than that made from the steak when broiled; it is not, however, quite so palatable. Beef juice made in either of the above ways is much more nutritious than the beef extracts sold ready to use
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