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DAY NURSERIES FOR CHILDREN.
The value of public nurseries for the safe
custody : of infants whose mothers require to
labour for their daily bread does not need to
be further enforced. It is only necessary to
urge inaii tne support already accoraed to
these institutions should be extended, and
that they should be placed under careful
supervision. This is one of the enterprises
in which women may engage with the con
fidence that they are doing good service in
t'eir own propher sphere. If ladies who
desire to make themselves useful would ad
dress themselves to this work, and provide
creches in every populous district, they
would be rendering important aid to the
poor. It is, of course, indispensable that
all due precautions should be taken to avoid
the spread of disease through agencies of the
class we are advocating, and measures muse
be devised to prevent the obvious abuses
accidental and intentional, to which any
enterprise of this nature is exposed. There
should be no insuperable difficulty in pro
viding the requisite safeguards. I be assis
tance medical aid can render will, doubtless
be forthcoming. We again commend the
subject to our professional raaders, and j
through them to the philanthropic public, 1
with every confidence in a movement at:
S leDaml. 8Qodt2ueen> Extract from
Those who love children are not those who
merely love the pleasure they can get from
children : those love, not the children, but
that pleasure, and the moment it ceases to
be pleasure, then farewell to the children.
Those who really love children love all
about them — the troubling and the teasing
that they make, the washing and wiping and
worrying ; they do not tire with their
fretting, they are not disgusted with their
care, they are not annoyed with their
questioning, they are not made nervous by
their bawling ; they take them in their
entirety. It never occurs to them to say
that these things are disagreeable, for, in
reality, the agreeable things, the loveliness,
the velvet cheeks, the exquisite mouth with
its little pearls, the perfect eyes, the opening
soul, the charming intelligence, the constant
sense of a creation of a new human being
going on under the eyes, the receptivity of
love, the tiling for love, all so far overbalance
anything that is not in accord with them as
to put it entirely out of sight and mind.
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