The new parent's assistant / by Stephen Paget.

  • Paget, Stephen, 1855-1926.
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The new parent's assistant / by Stephen Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUGUST 1914 I wrote these essays in time of peace : and here they are, for anybody who cares now to read them. It is like throwing a straw into a whirlpool, to see it vanish. Who wants little essays now ? Iam writing these last pages on the night of Monday, August 3, 1914. It would be as silly not to send them to the printers, as to send them ; it matters very little, one way or the other. Besides, a light book, even in this August and September, may be welcome here or there. For we must keep our heads ; we must take, those of us who can get them, regular meals, and enough sleep and exer- cise ; those of us who are of no direct use to their country must not give trouble to other people by being ill; and we must read something beside the newspapers, and think of something beside the one burden of our thoughts. This book will do for something to read. It may serve, in this or that home, to start a talk, or raise a laugh, or shift the outlook for half an hour. Oh you lucky little book, if you can do that much :