THE DUTY OF MOTHERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 233, 25 September 1908, Page 2

THE DUTY OF MOTHERS.

LADY PICKET'S ADU'CR By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Lady Plunket addressed two meetings of women to-day in connection with the work of the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and 1 Children, both meetings being very largely attended. Lady Plunket urged upon those present that the iirst duty of the mother is to nurse her child herself. That was hy no means such, an impossible task .is was often represented, and u case had come under her notice of a woman who was nursing her seventeenth child. The woman had a drunken hiNbaml, and she had to contend with absolute poverty, yet she allowed nothing to interfere with the nursing of her babies. That, Lady Plunket considered, was a great example, and one that might lie imttnted by less conscientious mothers. f'|iic (pointed out the evils arising from the u-e of patent foods, and said that in necessary oases the best substitute for thu natural food was huinnni=od milk. Lady Plunket a!"o drew attention to the evils resulting from the use of leather hoods on perambulators, which restricted the frc" l!ow of air, and the use of a perambulator at night instead of a col. the effect being to restrict the infant' 1 movements, which were most necessarv for ils development. She also spoke eniiilialicnlly against the use of "dummies," which were altogether unsatisfactory and unnecessary.