this feature every day with the thumb and forefinger a
tendency to broadness may be promptly subdued. The bridge should be gently
pressed between the fingers in the course of an upward massage movement.

[NURSERY HINTS AND FIRESIDE GEMS 815]

Flowers.--They are wreathed around the cradle, the marriage altar, and the
tomb.--Mrs. L. M. Child.

Bed Time.--One little chap was constantly being deceived as to his bed
hour, which was 7:30 o'clock. He could not tell the time, and his mother
or nurse would tell him that it was bedtime when in reality it was only
seven o'clock. He would look puzzled and only half convinced as his reason
told him it could not be that late; but he had no choice but to obey. It
would have been far wiser to set seven o'clock as his bed hour and to have
stuck to it.

Little Minds.--Minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything
that is beyond their range.--La Rachefoucauld.

Tea and Coffee.--Don't give your two-year-old child tea and coffee to
drink. What if she does cry for them? The crying will harm her far less
than the drink.

FOUR THINGS.

Each man has more of four thing than he knows.
What four are these? Sins, debts, fears and woes.
--From the French.

Sanitary Care of Baby's Bottles.--To wash and cleanse baby's bottles
satisfactorily, have a good stout bottle brush; make a strong suds of hot
water and soap or soap powder; wash the bottles thoroughly, using the
brush, then rinse several times, using the hot water and borax, and drain.
Before using bottles, always rinse again with hot water. With this care
there should be no trouble with sour or cloudy bottles.

Moulded by Circumstances.--In all our reasonings concerning men we must
lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by
circumstances.--Robert Hall.

Forming Habits.--The trouble with most bad habits is that they are so
quickly formed in small children. The mother relaxes her care for a day or
two, and a new trick appears, or the work of weeks on an old one is
undone. What is true of physical habits is equally so of the moral habits.
A tiny baby of a few months old knows very well if the habit of loud
crying will procure for it what it wants, and if not cheeked will develop
into the irritable whining adult we are all acquainted with. Habits of
disrespect, of indifference to the rights of others, of cruelty, may all
be irresistibly formed or dispelled in