Only ignorance of its many wonderful properties explains our avoidance of the lemon as tood, drink, or medicine. In the majority of houses it is used as if it were the rarest and most expensive of fruits—one solitary specimen often doing duty for the better part of a week. A squeeze over fish, perhaps, another into a cake mixture, the "Russianizing" of a cup of tea-then, finally, One hears sometimes that far too much attention is given nowadays to the needs of our little folk. In many instances is undoubtedly true, but it can often be explained by the fact that the parents themselves suffered from an overdose of severity, and had vividly unpleasant recollections of the' monotonous back-seat existence of their own youth, and had jointly decided that their youngsters would have none of it.
So the pendulum swings to the other extreme, unfortunate both for the children and their misguided nursery must be discarded, and ti table can easily be made presontabla by being stained and then polished with beeswax turpentine. The small like.
Many improvements in its last limp stage, it keeps the parents We could reconstruct the scene in history of Elsie Dinsmore, beginning in the life of the nursery were long inmates of the nursery can help with toilet soap company. "The curative the bookshop so well. with her tribulations from the age overdue, however, and the day is the polishing in short sessions. A effect of the lemon should be far want a nice book for a birth-of five, and ending when she was happily' past when the discarded dinnerette of larger proportions is more widely broadcast. The liver furniture from other parts of still the best thing for the tiny child, @ay present. For a child, Nine 50 anda great-grandmother. Elsi responds quickly to the use of its rears old." had a stern and worldly Papa, aa house found a resting-place th but for those who are older mats juice, and it is from that organ that the same size as those used down-(For they bought books for us, eldgely widower of 45, about whose and when the 30 many of the headaches and as they purchased gloves or slip-spiritual welfare she' was gravely and china were relegated for the stairs add greatly to the attractive-nausea endured by housewives owing pers, according to size, writes exercised. How that child was tried. children's use after it showed un-ness of nursery meal-times, They Evelyn Sim), And the thrills that ran up and to want of proper exercise come.. A. mistakable signs of wear and tear. can be made very easily by cutting ut rounds of white American cloth Without a sign of the exultation down our small spines when we tablespoonful of raw lemon juice without sugar, and taken fasting Dnsuspécted Lessons with a dull surface and ornamenting that had surged within him, for the came to the scene where Elsie, now for fow mornings, will surprise them with a bold design of flowers hoait of one bookseller must have seven, was hidden to the drawing Wise mothers who know the dan-even the most sceptical sufferer; or animals cone in stencilling, No been going like that singing-bird room one Sunday evening and com-while for a really bad headache the gers and unkindness of over-indul-Taundering is necessary, as a dam whose nest was so oddly located_in manded by her worldly and stern liza the importance cloth does all the cleaning that is 'a water-shoot, at the joyful realiza-parent to play and sing a song for juice of a whole lemon squeezed into gence <ully real the nursery table ton that here, at last, was a chance the delectation of himself and nis a cup of strong tea or coffee often. furnish acts more effectively than the ever-especially for the small occupant: required. of getting rid of one of these moral other worldy friends, She sang—not During a child' tender years the Decorative and Useful tomes that, unsold and unsaleab! 'a worldly song, but a hymn—and popular but more harmful aspirin. four walls of is nursery enclose cumbered his shelves, and with then fainted upon the iano stool, That sensation from which mostly much of his small waking world, and Cork mats can be bought and the dexterity of a successful conjurer whereupon one of the heedless, our men-folk suffer—"the morning, impressions and habits formed then, nursery paint-box requisitioned with and the heartlessness of a Hun, an worldly guests, dashing away a tear after the night before" feeling—can when the mind is plastic, remain the happiest results. Little borders elderly but, well-preserved volume from his manly eye (he afterwards be safely and usually successfully. fixed throughout life. A' correctly can be copied from the wall papery married Elsie when she was 17 and treated by giving the sufferer the with bright, for a picture book in the case of the "This is a capital birthday pre-he 50, and they had ten children) plain juice of a whole lemon an hour: papery and jolly dishes more advanced children, but even sent for a little boy." sprang forward th "an oath," before the breakfast which he further many mothers imagine the tiny tots could be taught to lifted prostrate early Christian declares he cannot touch. Children' towards ai the foundation apply coloured strokes. These cork martyr, and exclaimed, for far oftener from a sluggish Tnrec-ondiaix, reduced from five "Or a girl, I was going to say. good table manners. It also tempts fises—procurable almost anywhere clenched teeth, "Dinsmore, you're iver than a mother or nurse some-{Jaded appetites more easily and st quite cheaply—are really shillings to clear." tines imagines. It may be, and pos~ cessfully than any amount of tonic Cifective, too, when treated simply sibly is, that their diet is at fault, The relative, scenting a bargain, All through childish years and coaxing, and if the child with one coat of either gold or silver so it is hardly fair either to them themselves are encouraged to help in paint, while the addition of a asked ona more question. the shower of literature never or to ourselves to feel irritated with "You can recommend it? It's faltere The titles of the books its preparation it may be safely a Dearder of blue paint in the case them when their fractiousness might, sumed that careful habits will be the former and red in the larier not—sensational in any way, of lightly more alluring, but intents remained steadfastly be remedied by a simple dose. Some} likely to arise.
Checked gingham, makes a most, professional-looking course?" disappointing. There was one people have a decided objection to 'a delightful covering for the job, and one of which the youthful Unopened and Uncut birthday when a school friend, giving lemon juice to children, and nursery table, and an ideal founda-artists will be justly proud. Tt is similarly cursed, arrived panting to it is difficult to find an intelligent tion for a first Jessen in hemming. often a problem what to suggest in Sensational! "These birthday reason for it. A dessertspoonful of say that this year's curse was a The squares ake it so easy for the the way of an original and inexpen= Books that were dutifully placed by real" book.
Tt was called (I think) it raw will prove to be quite small needlewoman to keep straight, sive gift when small friends birth-us in our own little bookcase, and effective as the hated castor oil and "Egbort's Bride." and, if, she—or even he—is started days come round, and to many garded without actual loathing, far more palatable, only don't let with individual napkin, the task busy mother and nurse they seem Never opened, Never sullied, Another Disappointment the little folk persuade you to put, is over before it becomes laborious. to arrive with alarming rapidity. Teaves uncut forever. Lives of sugar in it and try to have the small Nothing is likely to be more accept blorers. Chatty little Natural His-We raced home from school. tummies as empty as possible before Table Mats able than a "set" of table mats, hand tory tomes. Biographies of great, Opened it. Read the opening administering it, The fashion for using table mats: decorated, or a gingham table cloth missionaries. Rambles in history. chapter, Looked at the middle; Sermons for children. Birthday the end. And then we Tooked at
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