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 CHILDREN, THEIR TREATMENT AND TRAINING. This is also a most important subject for us all. If you have a child or children, you should see them and enquire about them personally as a rule both morning and evening before you go out. In the Zenanas our ladies much neglect their children, and spend most of their time in their own pleasures. Nurses are still worse, and maid-servants are by far the worst. They, too, don't know how to treat children, to clothe them, to feed them whether with milk or food, to look after them at play, to arrange beds for them in suitable places according to the seasons so as to protect them from draughts and to do other necessary things. Generally mothers entrust several, if not all, of the above things to