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If the dress of the child combines warmth, protection, and comfort, one of the chief causes of irritation and restlessness will be removed. The little one will have better health, and the mother will not find the care of the child so heavy a tax upon her strength and time.

Comfortable and protective child clothing reduces irritation and restlessness while easing parental care burdens. Asserts a direct causal link between proper clothing and reduced infant restlessness and better health.

Tight bands or waists hinder the action of the heart and lungs, and should be avoided. No part of the body should at any time be made uncomfortable by clothing that compresses any organ or restricts its freedom of movement. The clothing of all children should be loose enough to admit of the freest and fullest respiration, and so arranged that the shoulders will support its weight.

Clothing for children must be loose to support full respiration and avoid compressing organs or restricting movement. Makes specific anatomical claims regarding tight garments and organ function.

In some countries the custom of leaving bare the shoulders and limbs of little children still prevails. This custom cannot be too severely condemned. The limbs being remote from the center of circulation, demand greater protection than the other parts of the body. The arteries that convey the blood to the extremities are large, providing for a sufficient quantity of blood to afford warmth and nutrition. But when the limbs are left unprotected or are insufficiently clad, the arteries and veins become contracted, the sensitive portions of the body are chilled, and the circulation of the blood hindered.

Exposing the limbs of young children to cold is harmful and hinders proper blood circulation and warmth. Asserts physiological consequences of leaving children's limbs bare or insufficiently clad in relation to blood circulation.

In growing children all the forces of nature need every advantage to enable them to perfect the physical frame. If the limbs are insufficiently protected, children, and especially girls, cannot be out of doors unless the weather is mild. So they are kept in for fear of the cold. If children are well clothed, it will benefit them to exercise freely in the open air, summer or winter.

Children need proper clothing and outdoor exercise to support physical development. The text makes direct claims about children's clothing, cold exposure, and outdoor exercise affecting physical development.

Mothers who desire their boys and girls to possess the vigor of health should dress them properly and encourage them in all reasonable weather to be much in the open air. It may require effort to break away from the chains of custom, and dress and educate the children with reference to health; but the result will amply repay the effort.

Mothers should dress children properly and encourage outdoor activity for health. The paragraph asserts that proper dress and outdoor activity produce vigor of health in children.