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98 extent with embroidery in washing crewels or silk, and can thus be made much more beautiful, artistically, than the ordinary babies' robe, which is simply a senseless mass of lace, insertion, frills, and fall-lals.

Boys should be breeched as soon as they begin to run easily. Jersey suits (see Fig. 3) are most healthy and comfortable, and may be worn from three years old till the child is six or seven. They stretch to every movement (Fig. 3), and are very durable besides being inexpensive; they should be worn with combinations and stockings, the warmth of which may be graduated according to the weather. Scotch suits for boys, which are so fashionable and so much admired, are an abomination owing to the way in which they expose the legs.

I know a curious instance of a little boy six years old who wears a Scotch dress, his legs have never been covered since he was an infant. As an infant he was one of the finest children I have ever seen, and has always enjoyed good health, yet he has hardly grown an inch, nor increased in weight since he was three years old. His mother often complains to me of his smallness, and asks what she can do for it, to which I always answer "cover