two kinds of food; then if it becomes necessary to force the weaning suddenly it is not such a difficult undertaking. Sudden changes from one food to another are not desirable for an infant, especially for a very young one with his delicate and undeveloped -organs of digestion; neither is it rational to expect the stomach of the infant to accept nourishment intended for the calf, with its different physical and mental requirements, without some altering and adaptation.

As a substitute for human milk there is no doubt at the present time that cow's milk is the best as well as the most convenient food, but it requires to be modified and made as nearly like the human milk as possible. To do this and to get good results it is necessary to use the utmost care, and one rule to follow in weaning is always to start out with a weak dilution and only one meal a day. One cannot vouch for anything being absolutely safe, but surely but one meal of a very weak mixture of milk and water can hardly be productive of much harm. If one finds this works well, in a day or two make the food a trifle stronger, then substitute two bottles a day. Then, feeling the way carefully and following this principle, one cannot go so very far astray.

The choice of a diluent is also important, for with this and the modification of the milk in increasing or reducing fats or proteids, one has it in one's power to combine one's power to combine the important elements mentioned as being necessary to healthy mental and physical growth. During the first months of infancy children require considerable heat to keep alive the vital spark, consequently the fuel foods-namely, fat and sugar-should be somewhat in excess of the muscle food; later, as the infant grows, he needs more of the food which makes blood and bone tissue and promotes vital energy. Now is the time to increase the proteids. The human milk adjusts all this for the growing infant. While he is very young the mother's milk is rich in fats and carbohydrates; as the infant grows the milk grows stronger in proteids according to his development. In substituting cow's milk it must be altered from time to time to meet these requirements. In order to better understand the relations of the two foods I will give the approximate proportions of both. Human milk and cow's milk contain the same amount of fat, but cow's milk has twice as much proteid, a third less sugar, and

two-thirds less of mineral matter. The proteid in milk is the curd, but the curd in human milk is much softer and more easily digested than that of cow's milk. In the infant's stomach the curd from the mother's milk, as soon as it enters the stomach, is divided into very fine soft particles which are easily separated and absorbed by the action of the gastric juices, while the curds of cow's milk form large tough curds, which, in the process of digestion, are much harder to separate and absorb. In human milk while the infant is very young the fat is in excess of proteid; in cow's milk fat and proteids are equal; consequently, when preparing cow's milk for infant-feeding the proteid must be reduced by adding water or gruel. But by doing this the fat is also reduced, and by the very young infant fat is needed; so the only way to maintain the desired amount of fat with a reduced amount of proteids is to add a specific amount of cream to the milk before it is diluted.

The best way to accomplish this is not by adding cream, but to remove a certain amount of top milk from a jar or can of milk that has been standing in a cold place for several hours. To do this successfully and be almost absolutely sure of the percentage of fat you are getting, fill a quart milk bottle or can; let the night's milk stand in one of these receptacles in a cold place until morning; then remove the upper half by means of an ounce dipper (there is one made especially for this purpose). The milk thus obtained gives just about the right proportion of fat to proteid that an infant under four or five months requires. No matter how much or how little it is diluted, the fact is always about twice the proteid. By allowing the milk to stand this length of time naturally the cream rises to the top, and that nearest the top is very rich in fats entirely too much so, even when highly diluted, to give to a very young baby. The further down we go into the bottle the weaker the cream becomes, until the cream becomes, until you finally reach the blue or thin milk which contains little or no fat at all. Now by removing this upper half you get a little of strength, the very rich cream, medium cream, and a small quantity of thin or skimmed milk, but by mixing all together the result is a mixture almost twice as rich in fat as plain milk; and when this is diluted it forms a food perfectly safe for and admirably suited to the majority of healthy young infants.

rate or simple, as occasion demands. The lace blouse is not included in the patternit contains merely the "jumper" and the girdle.

For a simple, attractive house gown, nothing could be prettier or more appropriate than the cashmere frock, No. 557. It has a pretty full waist, which is suited to all figures, but especially to the slight form of a young woman. The full skirt is graceful, too. The trimming may be of braid when that is preferred to the pictured stitched bands of the cashmere.

Practical for a simple school frock or convertible into something much more elaborate is the design of No. 559. In blue or the new "London smoke' gray serge, with a contrasting color of cloth or serge for the inlet pieces, strapped with soutache braid, this is

PLAIN OR FUR-LINED WINTER COAT.

Cut Paper Pattern No 500.
Usual Sizes. Price, 25 cents.

an ideal school dress for a girl. Of pongee or any other simple silk or cashmere, with panels of lace and some simple but effective embroidery or a few inlet motifs of lace on the front panel of the blouse, it will be sufficiently elaborate for dancing-school and simple parties. Again, the whole dress may be of white cashmere, with rows of gold braid.

The cloak pattern, No. 560, is absolutely plain, except in that the sleeve has an odd cuff effect. It is made loose enough to allow for a fur lining, so that the woman who usually buys a coat pattern in size 38 inches bust measure will find that the same size, nominally, in this coat pattern, will be more than large enough for her though lined heavily.