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Show ASSOCIATIONS ARE A HABIT W Even Form Clubs Over Question of Teething Rings Vs. Thumb. Our passion for getting up associations associa-tions is a bad symptom of intellectual feebleness. Every trade and profession profes-sion among us, every interest and prejudice, every aspiration, hypothesis hypothe-sis or question about a question has a gang of club members at its back. The fashionable mothers get up societies so-cieties to determine what plays their children shall see during the holidays. holi-days. I know of one woman who was not able to decide whether she should give a rubber ring or a coral to her teething child or should leave him to nature and the thumb. She accordingly according-ly formed a society. It is called the Ring and Coral association and meets twice a month. It has recently split into two organizations through the se cession of the antiring and coralites. By means of these two societies any mother may today escape the mental anguish of making a decision for herself her-self upon this teething matter. John J. Chapman, in Atlantic Monthly. |