Show children nto are ar always dressed up there la Is a little girl near by a delicate nervous creature small email and pale who lias has had to steal her fresh air b by iving driving with her mamma in a stylish turnout or simply sitting on the veranda always with her pretty white dr dresses eases with puffed sleeves and unruffled hair but oh what a pity I 1 losing all that close contact with mother earth which her system needs but bat why look at ai my neighbors children for illustration when I 1 have erred myself for during the first of the summer I 1 put my own darling boy of seventeen months under pretty much the same discipline I 1 had bad a large square of carpeting put on the veranda and a soap box filled with sand and after his long noon nap and dinner of oatmeal porridge I 1 would auton put on a clean white dress and expect him to keep it presentable for aw awhile hile the plan worked well hilt but alas his bigger brother of five fire years had the liberty of tho the whole yard the gravel in tho the driveway yellow gravel I 1 grieve griere to say it is the nooks and corners everywhere where plenty of vf of earth could be found and was the little one to be deprived of his liberty he gained freedom several times by lying flat on his bis stomach at tho the head of tho steps then backing and sliding down thoroughly cleaning them as he went but shaking a goodby to me with his hands as he glided on so I 1 gave in to him and until 8 5 he was allowed to play in full sight of passersby in a dark check gingham dress made short with dowhite no white skirts to soil undeene un underneath derne ath mothers nursery guide |