Читать книгу The Physical Training of Children онлайн

78 страница из 86

The pain they might cause is oft followed by tears;

’Tis certainly well to keep them from plums;

But certainly not from sucking their thumbs!

If a babe suck his thumb

’Tis an ease to his gum;

A comfort; a boon; a calmer of grief;

A friend in his need, affording relief;

A solace; a good; a soother of pain;

A composer to sleep; a charm; and a gain;

’Tis handy at once to his sweet mouth to glide;

When done with, drops gently down by his side;

’Tis fixed like an anchor while the babe sleeps,

And the mother with joy her still vigil keeps.

67. A child who is teething dribbles, and thereby wets his chest, which frequently causes him to catch cold; what had better be done?

Have in readiness to put on several flannel dribbling-bibs, so that they may be changed as often as they become wet; or, if he dribble very much, the oiled silk dribbling-bibs, instead of the flannel ones, may be used, and which may be procured at any baby-linen warehouse.

68. Do you approve of giving a child, during teething, much fruit?