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33 INFANCY AND ITS DRESSES.

"Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan;—take all heed thereof, in all carefulness employ it;—with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty will it one day be required back.

IFTY years ago Dr. Burrows wrote: "We do not only in great measure hide beauty, but even injure and kill it by some kinds of dress. A child is no sooner born into the world than it is bound up almost as firmly as an old Egyptian mummy in several folds of linen. It is in vain for him to give