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Performance of their Duties; how remedied. Forewarning, better than
Chiding. Preventing, better than finding Fault. Faults should be pointed
out in a Kind Manner. Some Employers think it their Office and Duty
to find Fault. Domestics should be regarded with Sympathy and
Forbearance, 204
CHAPTER XIX.
ON THE CARE OF INFANTS.
Necessity of a Knowledge of this Subject, to every Young Lady.
Examples. Extracts from Doctors Combe, Bell, and Eberle. Half the
Deaths of Infants owing to Mismanagement, and Errors in Diet. Errors
of Parents and Nurses. Error of administering Medicines to Children,
unnecessarily. Need of Fresh Air, Attention to Food, Cleanliness, Dress,
and Bathing. Cholera Infantum not cured by Nostrums. Formation of
Good Habits in Children, 213
CHAPTER XX.

ON THE MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
Physical Education of Children. Remark of Dr. Clark, and Opinion of
other Medical Men. Many Popular Notions relating to Animal Food for
Children, erroneous. The Formation of the Human Teeth and Stomach
does not indicate that Man was designed to live on Flesh. Opinions of
Linnæus and Cuvier. Stimulus of Animal Food not necessary to Full
Developement of the Physical and Intellectual Powers. Examples. Of
Laplanders, Kamtschatkadales, Scotch Highlanders, Siberian Exiles,
Africans, Arabs. Popular Notion that Animal Food is more Nourishing
than Vegetable. Different Opinions on this Subject. Experiments.
Opinions of Dr. Combe and others. Examples of Men who lived to a
great Age. Dr. Franklin's Testimony. Sir Isaac Newton and others.
Albany Orphan Asylum. Deleterious Practice of allowing Children to
eat at short Intervals. Intellectual Training. Schoolrooms. Moral
Character. Submission, Self-denial, and Benevolence, the three most
important Habits to be formed in Early Life. Extremes to be guarded
against. Medium Course. Adults sometimes forget the Value which
Children set on Trifles. Example. Impossible to govern Children,
properly, without appreciating the Value they attach to their Pursuits
and Enjoyments. Those who govern Children should join in their
Sports. This the best way to gain their Confidence and Affection. But
Older Persons should never lose the Attitude of Superiors.
Unsteadiness in Government. Illustrations. Punishment from unsteady
Governors, does little Good. Over-Government. Want of Patience and
Self-control in Parents and Governors. Example of Parents more
effectual than their Precepts. Formation of Habits of Self-denial in
Early Life. Denying Ourselves to promote the Happiness of Others.
Habits of Honesty and Veracity. Habits of Modesty. Delicacy
studiously to be cherished. Licentious and Impure Books to be
banished. Bulwer a Licentious Writer, and to be discountenanced, 220
CHAPTER XXI.
ON THE CARE OF THE SICK.
Women frequently called upon to direct in Cases of Indisposition.

Extremes to be avoided. Grand Cause of most Diseases, Excess in
Eating and Drinking. Fasting useful. Extracts from Doctors Burne and
Combe. Necessity of a Woman's Understanding the Nature and
Operation of Common Medicines. Simple Electuary. Discretion
required. Useful Directions in Regard to Nursing the Sick. Fresh Air
absolutely necessary. Frequent Ablutions important. Dressing a Blister.
Arrangements to be made beforehand, when practicable. Importance of
Cleanliness; Nothing more annoying to the Sick, than a want of it.
Necessity of a proper Preparation of Food, for the Sick. Physicians'
Directions to be well understood and implicitly followed. Kindness,
Patience, and Sympathy, towards the Sick, important. Impositions of
Apothecaries. Drugs to be locked up from the Access of Children, 234
CHAPTER XXII.
ON ACCIDENTS AND ANTIDOTES.
Medical Aid should be promptly resorted to. Suffocation, from
Substances in the Throat. Common Cuts. Wounds of Arteries, and
other severe Cuts. Bruises. Sprains. Broken Limbs. Falls. Blows on the
Head. Burns. Drowning. Poisons:--Corrosive Sublimate; Arsenic, or
Cobalt; Opium; Acids; Alkalies. Stupefaction from Fumes of Charcoal,
or from entering a Well, Limekiln, or Coalmine. Hemorrhage of the
Lungs, Stomach, or Throat. Bleeding of the Nose. Dangers from
Lightning, 240
CHAPTER XXIII.
ON DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS AND SOCIAL DUTIES.
Indefiniteness of Opinion on this Subject. Every Person needs some
Recreation. General Rules. How much Time to be given. What
Amusements proper. Those should always be avoided, which cause
Pain, or injure the Health, or endanger Life, or interfere with important
Duties, or are pernicious in their Tendency. Horse-racing, Circus-riding,
Theatres, and Gambling. Dancing, as now conducted, does not conduce
to Health of Body or Mind, but the contrary. Dancing in the Open Air

beneficial. Social Benefits of Dancing considered. Ease and Grace of
Manners better secured by a System of Calisthenics. The Writer's
Experience. Balls going out of Fashion, among the more refined Circles.
Novel-reading. Necessity for Discrimination. Young Persons should be
guarded from Novels. Proper Amusements for Young Persons.
Cultivation of Flowers and Fruits. Benefits of the Practice. Music.
Children enjoy it. Collections of Shells, Plants, Minerals, &c.
Children's Games and Sports. Parents should join in them. Mechanical
Skill of Children to be encouraged. Other Enjoyments. Social
Enjoyments not always considered in the List of Duties. Main Object of
Life to form Character.