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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937.

CARING FOR THE SICK CHILD

-A PAINTING

TIP

If you have any painting to do to a ceiling or anywhere above arm - reach, cut a rubber ball in halves make a hole in the bottom of one half and push it up the handle of the paint brush as far as possible. The cup will catch all the drops of paint that fall from the brush.

Sickness in a child is a revealing Sickness can then seem a comple- state. He is shown in his true mentary state to health colours both to himself and to his

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parents when he is off his guard, If a mother admits that things too weak or too ill to aspire, and are as they seem in a child's sick- therefore pretend, to be older or room, she may atknowledge that more knowledgeable or more in- the child who is feeling ill and dependent than he really is.

BETTER WAYS

WITH PEAS

When green peas first come în they are so deliciously tender and wanting her, and her only, has for sweet that we rarely think of doing the moment no private resources; anything but plain boil them. As It is indeed only after one has though unable to analyse his loneli- the season advances and the skins narsed several children severalness, he feels overwhelmingly begin to thicken it is time to find times that one finally accepts the vulnerable and insufficient. He does some different methods of present- fact that every view a child offers then seem to draw strength from ing them. of himself is a true view that can the presence of a guardian in repay study by his foremost cham-whose perpetual sufficiency he al Ipion in most cases his mother. ways believes. Perhaps only when he is is his true dependence apparent to everyone.

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Reversion To Babyishness

We usually speak of "feeling our age" when we are at our worst, meaning that we feel older than we ought. A child's thoughts also turn in the direction he fears, which in his case is towards his extreme youth, when he is below

par.

This, at any rate, was how I felt inclined to describe the change in my youngest child, who at normal times is particularly independent, when she was recently more affect ed by a malady than she has ever been before, even by more serious illnesses.

Puree. To make a puree is one good way, as you get rid of the skins altogether. Just boil them as usual with a little salt and sugar and then press them through a sieve. Reheat in a small saucepan with a lump of butter and a small quantity of milk and serve as a second vegetable.

With Lettuce. Combine them with lettuce in this way. Wash some lettuce leaves and shake off most of the water. Line, a casserole or oven dish with them, and in the centre put the shelled green peas, scattering a little sugar and salt over them. Cover with more lettuce, put on the lid and cook in a moder- ate oven until the peas are tender.

A Mixture. Finally try them cooked with an equal weight of carrots. Slice the carrots and put them with the shelled peas and about an inch depth of water into For a day or two she sobbed 2 closely covered saucepan. Let them cook very slowly until both quietly, making no fuss, whenever I was out of her room. She wanted vegetables are tender. In a small me to sit or lie on her bed, and 2oz. flour, and cook until smooth. saucepan melt oz butter, stir in though she had fed herself for Now add the liquid from the vege- nearly three years she begged "You

tables and stir again. Tum the gave it to me" whenever her tray

peas and carrots into a hot dish - was brought. And she invited in and pour the sauce over. stead of refusing help with the pro-with finely chopped cess of her toilet.

sprinkled on top.

Story Telling

To pass the time I began to tell her about "Red Riding Hood,” and realised that the story was com pletely new to her. Nor had she heard of "Jack and the Beanstalk," though she knew of "Cinderella" from seeing a pantomime. When I was easing my conscience by tell- ing these stories for about the tenth time to the invalid my middle child came into the room and corrected me. You've forgotten to say she met the wolf in the forest," she told me, "and it sent her the longest way." I had also, I found, omitted. other features of the tales. I men- tioned that five-year-old infant ask- éd how this could be.

The Child An Individual

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Keep Your Children Well

And Happy With

Baby's Own Tablets.

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The sick child had no recollectral for them to be otherwise, and Little children should be happy, it is

tions of ours as anything but a comi- consequently when they are peevish, paratively grown-up household. I'cross', have no appetite, lack energy saw this more clearly when my re. and good spirits, it is invariably a sign of health disorder. Usually this is the ference to a new cousin (the first result of derangement in stomach or was greeted by an offer of the dolls' bowels which may quickly be set right perambulator. "A real pram in a by a dose of Baby's Own Tablets. house!" my small daughter exclaim baby at birth, always constipated and "My little girl was a small delicate ed when I explained the provision cross" states Mrs. M. E.. Czosthwaite, for the baby.

Freeman, Ontario, Canada, "when she was a month old I bought some Baby's Own Tablets and was so pleased with To those of us who felt that we the results obtained. I have used them had lived around a perambulator constantly ever since, when baby has for years her forgetfulness seemed been cross, feverish, teething or at the |first- sign of a cold:"She has had no amusing; it was illuminating to find serious illness and I now have a nor that the youngest was the only permal, healthy five year old who has had son in the family unable to visualise no corrective other than Baby's Own

Baby's

a house with a baby as its centre. Tablets We agreed that perhaps our last ill wind was indicated by having given the sufferer the opportunity to remind

"her Individual as listinct from the family

Tablets are à médica.

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