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Your Gardens should be used for growing vegetables,
flowers, etc., and not for keeping animals in. Fowls and
rabbits are most unwholesome about a small town house.
They give rise to much dirt and pollution of the garden soil
even where they are carefully looked after, and it is almost
impossible to have a clean or tidy house where they are kept.
PERSONAL CLEANLINESS.
The cleanliness of the body and clothing is a matter of
the utmost importance if disease and ill-health are to be
avoided.
Every member of your family should have a warm bath
and clean underclothing at least once a week, and your beds
and bedding should also be kept scrupulously clean.
MOTHER AND INFANT.
The Mother's Health.—You should do all in your
power to keep in good health yourself, both before and after
the birth of your infant. By doing so you will make a gift to
your little one that is beyond all price, namely, a good
constitution.
In order to keep in good health you must have a clean,
well ventilated home, live regularly and temperately, eat
plenty of plain, nourishing food, and have daily exercise in the
open air.
BREAST FEEDING.
The best Food for the Baby is Mother's Breast
Milk alone without any other Food whatever.—
If you have properly looked after your health you should be
able to fully suckle the baby when born and for nine months
afterwards.
If the breast milk is scanty at first, do not be discouraged.
The regular suckling of the baby will in itself cause the flow
to increase. You can also improve the quality and quantity
of your milk by eating more nourishing food and by taking a
cup full or two of cow's milk half an hour before giving baby
the breast.
Above all things, avoid taking beer, stout or spirits of any
kind while nursing, unless specially ordered to do so by
a doctor.
During the first two months you should suckle the baby
every two hours during the day time, gradually decreasing it
to every three hours after that. Also twice in the night during