Babyhood . h garments are indeed often ir-ritating, but such are not put uponinfants. As the infant cannot spec-ify the cause of his discomfort, everyone is at liberty to exercise his im-agination about it, and here is thestrength of the position of those whoattack the woollen shirt. Making anassertion, the burden of proof lieswith them ; but the over-anxious andover-conscientious mother is at oncealarmed, and feels obliged to dis-prove the assertion, and is distressedin proportion to her doubts. If theirritation caused by wool is to bemagnified, let the resisting power ofthe babys skin also b
Babyhood . h garments are indeed often ir-ritating, but such are not put uponinfants. As the infant cannot spec-ify the cause of his discomfort, everyone is at liberty to exercise his im-agination about it, and here is thestrength of the position of those whoattack the woollen shirt. Making anassertion, the burden of proof lieswith them ; but the over-anxious andover-conscientious mother is at oncealarmed, and feels obliged to dis-prove the assertion, and is distressedin proportion to her doubts. If theirritation caused by wool is to bemagnified, let the resisting power ofthe babys skin also be magnified,and it will be found to present ascale armor. It is in no way crediblethat an irritation that is sufficient todisturb the nerves of a child couldbe indefinitely prolonged withoutsome recognizable irritation of theskin resulting. Our correspondents,we believe, are no more responsiblefor the nervousness and. the otherailments of their children than forany other physical peculiarities theymay BABYHOOD. 21 EDUCATIONAL Teaching Reading at Home. When my little girl was five yearsold I began teaching her to read,mainly because she was five yearsold, or, possibly, because I was un-consciously dominated by recollec-tions of the notable Susanna Wesley. As I had had no experience inteaching, we pursued what seemed anatural method, suggested by theneeds of the mind with which I hadto deal, and originated then andthere. It was so successful, bothwith the first and the second child,that it may prove helpful, or atleast suggestive, to such mothers aswish to make a little greater ad-vance than the kindergarten fur-nishes, and who hesitate to exposetheir fledglings to the great worldas typified to them by the publicschool. Any primer will do for a text book,provided it has a plentiful sprink-ling of the words of two are thirty of these, as fol-lows : is so lo go or of ox to doin on no it at as an am axhe my we us up me be by ye ay ah oh. Here are all
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