Don'ts for Mothers

Following the success of Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives a brand new old collection of advice:

- from Birth to Weaning

- the care of Young Children

- Boyhood and Girlhood

"Don't wash the baby in hot water, it would weaken and enervate the babe, and thus predispose him to disease. Luke warm rain water will be the best to wash him with."

"Don't choose a wetnurse of a consumptive habit. Check if she or any of her family have laboured under "king's evil" ascertaining if there be any sea...