Pretty Things for Baby.—­Among pretty articles for baby there are tiny ribbon garters to hold up the little sleeves, in colors to match the blue of the eyes or the pink of the cheeks, and there are huge soft rosettes of ribbon and hand embroidered strings for the cap, and gold baby 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.