Making Friends.—­Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts.—­Thomas Hughes.

Baby’s Nose.—­But the most pliable of baby’s features is the nose.  By gently massaging this feature every day with the thumb and forefinger a tendency to broadness may be promptly subdued.  The bridge should be gently pressed between the fingers in the course of an upward massage movement.

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Flowers.—­They are wreathed around the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb.—­Mrs. L. M. Child.

Bed Time.—­One little chap was constantly being deceived as to his bed hour, which was 7:30 o’clock.  He could not tell the time, and his mother or nurse would tell him that it was bedtime when in reality it was only seven o’clock.  He would look puzzled and only half convinced as his reason told him it could not be that late; but he had no choice but to obey.  It would have been far wiser to set seven o’clock as his bed hour and to have stuck to it.

Little Minds.—­Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything that is beyond their range.—­La Rachefoucauld.

Tea and Coffee.—­Don’t give your two-year-old child tea and coffee to drink.  What if she does cry for them?  The crying will harm her far less than the drink.

FOUR THINGS.

  Each man has more of four thing than he knows. 
  What four are these?  Sins, debts, fears and woes. 
                                   —­From the French.

Sanitary Care of Baby’s Bottles.—­To wash and cleanse baby’s bottles satisfactorily, have a good stout bottle brush; make a strong suds of hot water and soap or soap powder; wash the bottles thoroughly, using the brush, then rinse several times, using the hot water and borax, and drain.  Before using bottles, always rinse again with hot water.  With this care there should be no trouble with sour or cloudy bottles.

Moulded by Circumstances.—­In all our reasonings concerning men we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances.—­Robert Hall.

Forming Habits.—­The trouble with most bad habits is that they are so quickly formed in small children.  The mother relaxes her care for a day or two, and a new trick appears, or the work of weeks on an old one is undone.  What is true of physical habits is equally so of the moral habits.  A tiny baby of a few months old knows very well if the habit of loud crying will procure for it what it wants, and if not cheeked will develop into the irritable whining adult we are all acquainted with.  Habits of disrespect, of indifference to the rights of others, of cruelty, may all be irresistibly formed or dispelled in the first few years of life.

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