by pins and
fleecy robes and bow-decked quilts.

Baby.--A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.--Byron.

Baby's Outing.--It is always better for a baby, no matter how young, to go
out in a carriage than to be carried. Young babies are much more
comfortable lying full length on a pillow placed in the carriage and
properly covered than when carried in the arms.

Baby.--A lovely bud, so soft, so fair, called hence by early doom; just
sent to show how sweet a flower in paradise would bloom.--Leigh Richmond.

Wild Flowers.--Children who gather wild flowers should be taught that they
must not put them in their mouths. The buttercup, which is harmless enough
to handle, contains an acid poison that will produce sore mouth, and taken
into the stomach worse effects might result. It also contains a narcotic
principle, anemonin, which has the property of diminishing the respiration
and heart action.

Flowers.--It is with flowers as with moral qualities, the bright are
sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet.--Hare.

Reasoning versus Punishment.--There is one great point that all mothers
should observe and that is not to punish children when reasoning would
bring the same results. For needless correction blunts a child's
sensitiveness. To state that it brutalizes him is putting it too
positively, but it tends to develop indifference and hardness that one
does not want a child to possess,

Discipline.--Be ever gentle with the children God has given you.--Watch
over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger.--In the
forcible language of Scripture, "Be not bitter against them." "Yes, they
are good boys," said a kind father. "I talk to them much, but I do not
beat my children: the world will beat them." It was a beautiful thought,
though not elegantly expressed.--Burritt.

Baby's Kimono.--The little flannel kimonos or wrappers, so convenient to
slip on the baby before the morning bath, or if the room is at all chilly,
may be made up in pretty styles, in delicate colors, bound with silk, and
tied with tiny bows to match.

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Early Schooling.--Of ten infants destined for different vocations, I
should prefer that the one who is to study through life should be the
least learned at the age of twelve.
--Tissot.

Baby's Fine Dresses.--If the baby's dress is not made of the finest of
han