Show associations ARE A HABIT we even form clubs cluba over question of teething rings Vs V thumb our passion for getting up assoria tlona dons is a bad symptom of intellectual feebleness every trade and profession among us every interest and prejudice every aspiration hypothesis or question about a question has ha a gang of club 16 members embers at its ita dack the fashionable mothers get up societies to determine what plays their children shall see during the holidays j I 1 know of one woman who was not able to decide whether sho she should give a rubber ring or a coral to her teething child or should leave him to nature and the thumb she ghe accordingly 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 secession of the an ant tring tiring and combites cora com lites by means of these two societies any M other mother may today escape the mental anguish of making a decision for herself upon this ie teething ething matter john 1 chapman in atlantic monthly |