Babyhood . ent on the sore, and keeping the childfor a while from romping, you buy in thefuture a better quality of stockings. Once our baby of three months had a se-vere attack of colic, accompanied by diar-rhoea. The cause of this suffering was notascertained until the magnifying-glass de-tected upon the diapers colored fuzz of wool,which had evidently been torn off by thebaby, in her restlessness, from the shawlwrapped about her ; and then, in her agonycrowding her fist into her mouth, the fuzz Ihad been swallowed. Tom, the unlucky one, has run a splinterunder his skin. You pick away with a
Babyhood . ent on the sore, and keeping the childfor a while from romping, you buy in thefuture a better quality of stockings. Once our baby of three months had a se-vere attack of colic, accompanied by diar-rhoea. The cause of this suffering was notascertained until the magnifying-glass de-tected upon the diapers colored fuzz of wool,which had evidently been torn off by thebaby, in her restlessness, from the shawlwrapped about her ; and then, in her agonycrowding her fist into her mouth, the fuzz Ihad been swallowed. Tom, the unlucky one, has run a splinterunder his skin. You pick away with a nee-dle to dislodge it, and succeed only in break-ing off some of the softened parts of thewood and in making the blood flow. You 1are ready now to give up in despair ; thedarkening clots of blood obscure the en-trance-spot of the splinter. But wash awaythe blood, dry the skin, and your glass may 1show you quite deep down the lost splinter, which you will be likely to grasp with small,fine-pointed The children go to school, and unfortu-nately begin, it may be soon, vigorously toscratch their heads. You discover the ver-minous parasites which have lodged there,and apply proper remedies ; but you cannotalways see with your naked eye whether thenits are all gone, or what is the exact condi-tion of sore spots. The friendly glass helpsyou. It will help you frequently, if you will butuse it. How quickly it detects for you thelittle depressions in the commencing pimplesof chicken-pox, the jagged surface and edgesof a combined bruise and cut, or the particleof dust which has lodged upon the eyeballand which you cannot see with unassistedeyes! The most convenient form of magnifier isthe round one with straight handle, shownin the accompanying cuts, and cost from 50cents to $2 50, according to size, rangingfrom ix2 to 4 inches in diameter. Theseand other styles can be obtained of any re-liable optician. TEACHING A CHILD RESPONSIBILITY. BY HOPE LEDYARD. WE have all heard of the
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