An infant's clothes, napkins especially, ought never to be washed with soda; the washing of napkins with soda is apt to produce excoriations and breakings-out. "As washerwomen often deny that they use soda, it can be easily detected by simply soaking a clean white napkin in fresh water and then tasting the water; if it be brackish and salt, soda has been employed." [Footnote: Communicated by Sir Charles Locock to the Author.] 10. _Who is the proper person to wash and dress the babe_? The monthly nurse, as long as she is in attendance; but afterwards the mother, unless she should happen to have an experienced, sensible, thoughtful nurse, which, unfortunately, is seldom the case. [Footnote: "The Princess of Wales might have been seen on Thursday taking an airing in a brougham in Hyde Park with her baby--the future King of England--on her lap, without a nurse, and accompanied only by Mrs Brace. The Princess seems a very pattern of mothers, and it is whispered among the ladies of the Court that every evening the mother of this young gentleman may be seen in a flannel dress, in order that she may properly wash and put on baby's night clothes, and see him safely in bed. It is a pretty subject for a picture."--_Pall Mall Gazette_.] 11. _What is the best kind of apron for a mother, or for a nurse, to wear, while washing the infant_? Flannel--a good, thick, soft flannel, usually called bathcoating--apron, made long and full, and which of course ought to be well dried every time before it is used. 12. _Perhaps you will kindly recapitulate, and give me further advice on the subject of the ablution of my babe_.