It's taken to the country, and put to nurse with a good strong woman, who makes that her only business.

She just lives to be a good animal, you see, and so is a better one than a more intellectual being can be; thus she gives the child a strong constitution, which is the main thing." "Yes," said Miss Letitia; "I was told, when in Paris, that this system is universal.

The dressmaker, who works at so much a day, sends her child out to nurse as certainly as the woman of rank and fashion.
There are no babies, as a rule, in French households." "And you see how good this is for the mother," said Mrs.Follingsbee.
"The first year or two of a child's life it is nothing but a little animal; and one person can do for it about as well as another: and all this time, while it is growing physically, the mother has for art, for self-cultivation, for society, and for literature.

Of course she keeps her eye on her child, and visits it often enough to know that all goes right with it." "Yes," said Miss Letitia; "and the same philosophical spirit regulates the education of the child throughout.

An American gentleman, who wished to live in Paris, told me that, having searched all over it, he could not accommodate his family, including himself and wife and two children, without taking _two_ of the suites that are usually let to one family.