Show label the ones the anxiety so often caused by tho wandering away of a little child from his usual familiar surroundings roun dings or hu being separated from hia parents in a crowd ia made unnecessarily distressing by the fact that usually he carries with him no certain means of identification to label him with bis full name and address would be so simple a precaution that it is surprising that it is not a universal practice we brand our cattle punch cabalistic characters in the web feet of our fowls engrave dog col lars and scrupulously las and bunches of keys while giving hardly a passing thought to what would happen to our little speechless tod adlers and ourselves should they stray into unknown streets or meet with some the domains 1 of strangers in the customary of undergarments with indelible ink it would bo but little more trouble to use the full name instead of initials and on outer garments a place could be selected say the in sido of the col lar band or of the end of the sleeve where the full address could be placed Ife reader of baby adopt such a plan and recommend it to others there would bo at once a beginning which might go far toward establishing a unis form custom the usefulness of which would seem to be beyond question babyhood |