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456 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLGY.
two hours is often enough the first month, and not in
an unlimited quantity either. The second month, once
in three hours ; the third, once in four. By the time
a child is a year old, it should take its three meals a
day, and never eat between meals. The milk may be
warmed, but not boiled. For the first year, a child
wants no food but milk. The second, it may have with
it a little farinacea—brown wheat-bread, and ripe, pulpy,
or sweet, juicy fruit, as strawberries, raspberries,
peaches, etc.
There is no way to secure the perfect health, beauty,
and regular development of a child, like entire simpli
city and regularity iu its diet. It should not know there
is an unwholesome dainty in the world. Bread, milk,
and fruit, are the food of infancy, and it would be well
if, for the first five years, it had no other ; it would be
no harm, perhaps, if it never had. I do not object to a
reasonable variety of vegetables, after a child has got
its full set of teeth; but to candies, cake, pastry, and
other breeders of dyspepsia.
A child should have its daily exercise in the open air,
at least, after it is a month old ; and it should never
have its face covered night or day,
breathe freely. The lungs
so that it can not
and blood of a child need
pure air, as well as those of a grown person.
A healthy child has no trouble in teething. When
there is any fever, it is easily controlled by diminishing
its food, giving it cold water to drink, and putting a wet
bandage around it, or packing in the wet-sheet —
pack
moving its bowels, if need be. If the gums are in
flamed, rub them with c ild water—let it suck a rag
dipped in water, or a littl bag of ice.