'A famous physician was asked recently by a friend, the mother of several young children, what room hho would advise her to choose in her new house for the nursery. The answer was "The best room.." While many parents might admit the wisdom of such advice, few, I fancy, would really be inclined to act upon it—nor, in the opinion of even the most devoted mothers, would it be necessary, unless the family hay pened to be an unusually large one. Parents in these strenuous days require in their leisure times all the peace and pleasant sare roundings their home affords, and oftentimes the few even hours after the nursery inmates are settled for the night provide the only relaxation possible in busy lives. Their need for a leisure spent in'an airy room amongst their books and treasures, sired sometimes by friends for' the enjoyment of music or a game of bridge, is quite as clamorous as that of the! children for a suitable nursery. While environment means much, a child unconsciously accepts it as it! is, and if he is made happy and kept healthy in it the actual size, shape, and furniture of it is after all of secondary importance
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