FAIR NO. 
him cow's milk to drink, diluting It with water 
to about, one-third. The quantity of milk was 
gradually Increased until he was six months 
old when he drank cow’s milk undiluted and at 
eight monthB ho drank no other. Tie never knew 
what It wa3 to be “weaned,” and ho never look 
hlB milk from a bottle, his mother regarding a 
“ bottle” as an abomination and entailing a great 
deal of work. I n matter of diet this little fellow’s 
food has always been milk. In addition to 
this he has eaten plentifully of fruit—not a day 
having passed since he had four teeth, that he has 
not had It in some shape, fresh or cooked, vege¬ 
tables of every description that he has liked, 
simply cooked, he has been allowed to eat freely. 
Oat-nie l mush with milk or cream and a dish or 
fruit usually constitutes his breakfast, For Bup- 
per he has bread and mill; If ho Is constipated, 
he eats a dish or whole wheat, that has been 
boiled until soft,, which speedily corrects the dif¬ 
ficulty. Ilo has a bath every morning, and he 
has his teeth brushed, lie wears shaker flannel 
chemises the year round of a light quality in the 
summer time, lie seldom wears a hat at any 
season, rarely a wrap of any description even In 
winter lime, except In riding, and Is remarkably 
free from colds. The absence of hat and coat 
from his toilette Is one of his “ freaks”—he detests 
both. 
seem as if parents realize the Immense advantage 
It Is to a human being to have a perfectly healthy 
body. Money and finery of apparel are not of the 
least consequence In comparison with It. No man 
or woman needs to be rich, or learned to rear a 
child In the way the little hero of this sketch has 
been reared. I never see a child eating candy and 
nuts, cakes and confections; undergoing undue ex¬ 
citement, at night; fretful, cross and unhappy, 
without a feeling of pity at Its misfortune. I feel 
at once that its mother lacks the very first ele¬ 
ment of fitness to be a mother—conscientious 
sense of her duty, or a lack of firmness to do it. 
Health, happiness and usefulness are largely 
synonymous—remember that. 
Mart Waqkr-Firhkr, 
A DABNING BASKET, 
Materials, a discarded peach basket, a black or 
old gold-colored skirt braid l if yards black and 
old gold cretonne, one quarter of a yard of pale- 
blue Silesia. 
The basket I covered was a peach basket with 
wide splints, sloping abruptly rrom the top to ft 
narrow bottom. They can be bought new for five 
cents. 
Measure on the outside from the top to the 
center of the bottom, and around the top fold the 
cretouno and bind the fold with the braid. Mark 
the side Of the cretonne that Is to go Inside the 
basket into as many spacos ns there are members 
In the family whose hose need weekly embroider^ 
Ing, and stitch the blue silesla upon it In pockets* 
making a small box-plalt at. the bottom for the 
fullness Embroider t ho Initial of the owner on 
each pocket and hind with black braid. 
The pockets aro sot two inches from the top of 
the basket. Sew the cretonne together ; run a 
shir In both t.he lining and tho outside cover: slip 
it over the b isket, draw it tightly and tie It. If 
the cretonne Is genuine It, will wash without 
fading. The cover can be taken off very easily. 
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Now for tho negative parr of hts diet. He has 
not been allowed to cat meat,, eggs, cake or pastry, 
fine crackers, raisins, cheese, candy, the skins or 
seeds of fruit, hot bread, or to “taste” of tea or 
coffee. Each and all of these articles are abso¬ 
lutely forbidden. He Is allowed a small quantity 
of sugar on benles and oat meal, and he has occa¬ 
sional ly, within the last year, eaten of butter. He 
prefers cream to butter and is allowed all ho wants 
of this as also of good soups. lie Is taught that 
he can have meat when he gets his “meat teeth.” 
When In New York a short time ago, I was tell¬ 
ing Dr. James R, Learning, a very distinguished 
physician c»r that city, the method adopted in 
the training of this child, and he Raid, “All right, 
and my advice lo his mother is that sho withhold 
moat, from hH diet, until he cuts his meat teeth, 
which will not he until he Is about eight years old.’ 
Dr. LeamlDg then told me In what a high ratio the 
death rate has been ml need In a Children’s Hos¬ 
pital ot which he had charge, since meat has been 
crossed oil the list of food for the little ones. 
Among other tilings that the child has not had, 
have been -pokes” and “joltings” from tho rela¬ 
tions and other people. Ula mother never allowed 
him to be tickled and tossed, “boozy-boozled” or 
kissed on the mouth. “I should not. like such 
things,” she argued, and ahe would not have her 
child imposed upon. Butin bis playing he has the 
greatest freedom. He Is well shod for all sorts of 
weather, has abundant sleep, makes mud pies and 
molds various things from mud to his heart’s con¬ 
tent. He constructs most ot his own playthings, 
and learns by heart all the pictures in “ wide 
Awake” and “St Nicholas," When either of Ills 
parents go from home, he c-xpects but one thing 
upon their return, and that Is a kiss, which he 
counts upon with great glee. 
If poorly done, there would be no sale and conse¬ 
quently no living. 
Crocheting brings a g rod price, too. 
If she la embroidering for home use, it has its 
beneficial results. A neat piece ot work Is a credit 
to any room and creditable to anybody. 
Odds and ends of bright colors appllqued on a 
solid ground cost but little and made In a bracket 
1 tmb eiuln, are an adornment to any room. 
I have been where a whole household was 
pleased and proud of “our girl’s work,” and I am 
sure tho girl grew to be a bettor woman through 
that Just pride imbued by her family. 
There may bo those who have a natural taste for 
doing such things, but with this taste there wants 
to go some knowledge; there must be Borne in¬ 
sight of what is being (lone by others and the man¬ 
ner In which it la done ; and to those residing on 
farms distant from cities the Fair is the great 
school for them. There Is exhibit d a variety of 
work, done in various ways and with varied ma- 
te-UU, l or a great many uses. 
Not a hurried glance but a pood look has many 
times enabled mo to make both useful and orna¬ 
mental articles, and they In their turn have sug¬ 
gested others of taste and value. These also have 
be :n duly talo n to the Fair the next year, and the 
probabilities are that some one else has copied 
them, while the premium awarded more than paid 
me for the trouble taken to make the exhibit. 
It being quite the thing now to knit edgings of 
different widths In white and color for trimmings, 
we shall look to see new patterns at our Fair, we 
hope also to Roe some of the new “ribbon work” 
tnern. 
If we all take an interest In our Fair and each 
one contributes something, It will be surprising to 
find what an array one Binall town can make. 
What, a good feeling Is engendered looking over 
the various products raised by our neighbors, or 
tho articles made by our neighbors’ wives. Do we 
not feel as though our associations were better 
and our advantages greater ; In fact, do we not 
know they are In a thriving town ? 
What better place Is there to display the worth 
ot the land, the dairy and the household than at a 
Fair? Do not the horBcs, the cattle, the grains 
and the fruits tell all about the man ? WhUe the 
butter, the canned fruit, the bread, the cake, the 
knitting, ihe sewing and the crocheting, the pen¬ 
ciling aud painting, tell equally well about the 
woman ? 
Nothing Is really lost, If Industry reigns, It speaks 
for itself, it idleness la prevalent, it makes Its pres¬ 
ence known. 
Any one may well be proud of a good Fair. To 
make it such, the subject needs a good deal of 
agnation; neighbor must talk with neighbor, and 
each and every one do all 1q Lhelr power toward 
contributing to its usefulness. Strive to raise a 
general Interest in It throughout the neighbor¬ 
hood, for It la the great advertiser of your own, 
your neighbor’s and your town’s value. 
Do notlet It run to “racing” wholly, bur, make 
It a place of learning, a place of sociality and en¬ 
joyment, a place that will have a good effect “ all 
tie year.” And, farther, make It a point, to go to 
tho Fair and have all the family go. Then do not 
hurry from one object to another, but what you 
doBce, look at until you have it fixed in memory, 
then take another article or object In tho same 
way. PI fferent ones ot the Bame family may have 
different, objects ot Interest and each, having care- 
fully noted certain things, can talk them over in* 
teuigently at home, 
Old people naturally seo things quite differently 
from young eyes, and It, is often well for the two 
to look at the same object together. Points will 
be noticed and comparisons made that oTen tend 
to developing new Ideas—ideas of practical value 
In corning days and such as can easily be carried 
out to considerable advantage. 
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Now for the results of this sort of training. The 
boy has never had a sick day, and with the excep¬ 
tion of a cold, never a dull or unwell day. No 
Bleepless nights, no trouble with teething, no fret¬ 
ting, no colic, no headaches, no worms, or troubles 
of any sort. Never did a child so grow and lhrlve : 
hla hair full of sunshine, his face a garden of lilies 
and roses, his eyes bright as Btare, his body the 
perfect ion of symmetry and strength, his cou - 
tenance the picture of happiness. It would be 
aifflcuHtoflnda match for him outside ot Eng¬ 
land, where the physical development of children 
is the finest In the world, as might naturally be 
expected, the mental development of the boy 
keeps pace with the physical - a masterful little 
fejlow, the leader In play, the captain of m iso lie v- 
ous expeditions, very discreet in judgment, strong- 
willed and persevering, and tho most delightful 
jlttle companion imaginable; when bo goes to bed 
laughing and chatterli g, nobody Lets • rellev. 
ed,” unless it be a “relief ’ to miss the best, bright¬ 
est and most radiant tiling In tho household. 
Now, why cannot every child he like unto this 
one7 especially every country child, and It Is a 
wrong to children, that they should struggle up 
to man and womanhood in a city, lc does not 
Hlmple, BelX-rutrulatluK, ami with our experienced men, wo contract to force water from wring or well lo 
any point. Wrilo, rUtlng the nature of work you want done, to 
aa n „ p, aP’ v B n WILLIAMS & Oo„ 
ED College ilace, New York* Halamazoo, Mich. 
