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Show ASSOCIATIONS ARE A HABIT We 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 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 secession se-cession of the antlring 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. |