Genre:

Regular Feature, Instructions, Drollery

Subjects:

Domestic Economy, Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Health, Human Development, Sanitation

    Includes the advice that 'the hotter your nursery the better, or the children will catch cold', and 'Always give children whatever they cry for. Nature teaches them to express their wants, which it would be cruelty to thwart'. Also, 'Wash the floor of the nursery often. The evaporation will assimilate the atmosphere indoors to that outside, and save the children from sudden changes of temperature'.