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 CHILDHOOD.

''Household treasures! household treasures! Are they jewels rich and rare; Or gems of rarest workmanship; Or gold and silver ware? Ask the mother as she gazes On her little ones at play: Household treasures! household treasures! Happy children—ye are they.''

ABLUTION.

116. ''At twelve months old, do you still recommend a child to be to be washed''?

Certainly I do, as I have previously recommended at page 19, in order that his skin may be well and thoroughly cleansed. If it be summer time, the water should be used cold; if it be winter, a dash of warm must be added, so that it may be of the temperature of new milk; but do not, on any account, use very warm water. The head must be washed (but not dried) before he be placed in his tub; then, putting him in the tub (containing the necessary quantity of water, and washing him as previously recommended (See Infancy—Ablution), a large sponge should be filled with the water and squeezed over the head, so that the water may stream over the whole surface of the body. A jugful of cold water should, just before taking him out of his bath, be poured over and down his