THE CLOSED MOUTH.
Indian mothers are wiser in one repeat than we are. They are mostcareful to inculcate the habit of keeping their children’s mouths shut from their infancy. When a baby is laid down to sleep the mother carefully presses its lips together, - The[.habit, thus early acquired seldo.nr departs in after life. Many of us, who dwell in London would suffer. teps/fifyri’ fogs were we to be careful in this particular., / Many English mbthers regard with little, concern, an eaidy inclination : to keep r the hibuth open on the part of their children'. Bfis a great mistake to allow the defect to pass unnoticed, for, if only a m4t.ter pf carelessness,' it' may tend to foster a weakness of'throat or/lungs and if from some physical cause, it should be seen to at once before.it.-is too late to remedy the -evil.—Hospital. v • ■.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 17, 22 July 1893, Page 11
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142THE CLOSED MOUTH. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 17, 22 July 1893, Page 11
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