Delicate Children.

Manawatu Herald, 1 August 1896, Page 4

Delicate Children.

Mothers of puny and delicate babies need not despair. An oxchange enumerates Bomo interesting instances of frail children tvho became not only vigorous but famous men. The excessively weak condition of Voltaire prevented his being baptized for several months after ho was born. Perhaps ho protested at that early age I Newton was so small and frail at his birth that his life was despaired of. Ho lived, however, like Voltaire, to the ago of 85. Jean Jacques Rousseau says, "I came Into the world sick and infirm." Up to the ago of 5 tho life of Do Thou, tho historian—born 1658—hung by a slender thread. Fontcnello, whose mental facilities remained unimpaired to the end of his long life—ho died within a month of being a centenarian —was so delicate in his infancy that he wag not allowed to be taken ovit into the open air. Walter Scott was an invalid before the age of 2. His right leg being paralyzed, the poor little fellow had to support himself on a crutch. After being sent into the hill country with his father ho came back strong and active. And Victor Hugo lias told us in his "Autumn Leaves" how delicate ho was from his birth and what anxious solicitude "inado him twico the child of his persistent mother."