dkerchief linen, French nainsook or a very fine batiste is usually
chosen. These are the soft materials, soft as well as sheer. They are the
materials on which embroidery is done most successfully and the baby dress
de luxe is always hand embroidered. It may have on it the merest touch of
hand work--scarcely more than a few eyelets and a tiny blossom and stem
and yet follow the prescribed lines. The little round yokes are attached
to the fulled on skirt portion with the tiniest of beading or else the
yoke scallops are lapped down over the fullness. The neck is edged with
the little hand-made scallops.

Nicknames.--A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname
lasts forever.--Zimmermann.

Undergarments.--In buying the little wool shirts (wool being considered
the most satisfactory for infants' undergarments) never get the heaviest
weights; there are four usually offered, even for winter wear. The next to
the heaviest is quite warm enough for winter, and for summer the lightest
weight obtainable, preferably of a mixture of silk and wool; cotton and
wool should not be used. In hot weather shirts of cotton gauze or a soft
porous cotton stockinet are satisfactory.

Training.--The education of our children is never out of my mind. Train
them to virtue, habituate them to industry, activity, and spirit. Make
them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly. Fire them with ambition
to be useful. Make them disdain to be destitute of any useful
knowledge.--John Adams to his wife.

Baby's Nerves.--Never try to entertain a baby too vigorously. Little
babies especially, but also children somewhat older, should never be
subjected to unnecessary excitement. Older people seldom realize how
exceedingly undeveloped the nervous system of a little child is, and any
undue shock to it is apt to cause the direst consequence. Do not take very
small children to the theatre or the circus. They don't understand it, and
they can't enjoy it.

Intemperance.--Violent excitement exhausts the mind, and leaves it
withered and sterile.--Fenelon.

Second Teeth.--When the baby's second teeth are cut there are often
injurious influences to be combated. There is more or less chance for the
formation of caries or tartar; care must be taken and counsel sought, and
every effort made to prevent the aggravation of the evil.

Tears.--Tears are the safety-valves of the heart when too much pressure is
laid on it.--Albert Smith.