e to the child.

=Can Sex Be Foretold?=--Mothers often wish to know if it is possible to
determine the sex of the child before it is born. Although a great deal
has been written on this subject, and a number of so-called rules have
been made, yet it is absolutely impossible to tell whether the child
will be a boy or a girl; and it is also equally impossible to do
anything that could in any way exert an influence in producing a child
of the desired sex.

=To Tell Time of Confinement.=--For two hundred and eighty days, or forty
weeks, the prospective mother has been conducting herself in the best
way she thought possible, that all good might be exerted upon the new
life. The question now comes, When may the day of confinement be
expected? I give here a table for calculating this day, which I am sure
will be found very convenient.

OBSTETRICAL TABLE.

--------+----------------------------------------------
January | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Oct'r | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
--------+----------------------------------------------
Feb'y | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Nov'r | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
--------+----------------------------------------------
March | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Dec'r | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
--------+----------------------------------------------
April | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Jan'y | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
--------+----------------------------------------------
May | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Feb'y | 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
--------+----------------------------------------------
June | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
March | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
--------+----------------------------------------------
July | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
April | 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
--------+----------------------------------------------
August | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
May | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
--------+----------------------------------------------
Sept'r | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
June | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
--------+----------------