Show associations ARE A HABIT we even form clubs over question of teething rings Vs va thumb our passion for getting up tiona Is a bad symptom ot of intellectual feebleness every trado trade and profesa slon among us ua every interest and prejudice every aspiration hypothesis or question about a question has a craic of club members at its back tho the fashionable mothers got get up societies to determine what plays their children shall BOO during tho the holidays I 1 know of ono one woman who was waa not ablo able to decide whether she eho should sh give a rubber ring or a coral to her teething teeth lug child or should leave him to nature and tho thumb ohe accordingly formed a society it is in called tho the ring king and coral association and moots meets twice a month it has recently split into two organizations through tho the so ae cession of tho untiring and corall corval toa tes by means of these two societies any mother may today escape the mental anguish of making a decision for herself upon this teething matter john jobu J chapman in atlantic monthly |