The Young Mother

liding partition. Reasons for this arrangement. Objections to carpets. Furniture, &c. Feather beds. Holes or crevic

easons for saying what a nursery should be. 1. It may be of service to those who have the power of selection. 2. Information cannot injure those who have not. 3. It may lead those who have wealth to extend the hand of cha

ilding. It is not unfrequently the one that can best be spared, is most retired, or most convenient. Whether i

occasional approach of the light of the sun. It should be spacious, with dry walls, high ceiling, and tight windows. The latter should always be so constructed that the upper sash c

n curtains. Some writers say that the windows should have cross bars before them; but if the

middle. The use of this is, that the mother and child may retire to one, while the other is being swept or ventilated. They would thus avoid damp air, currents, and dust. Such an arran

if it falls. But I have seldom seen lasting injury inflicted by simple falls on the hard floor; and there are so many objections to carpeting a nursery, since it favors an accumulation of dust, bad air, damp, grease, and

he best writers and highest authorities on the subject, I am decidedly of opinion that all feather beds ought

be exposed to currents of air, and their sometimes terrible and always injurious consequences. T

of cats "sucking the child's breath," is wholly groundless, yet they may be provoked by the rude attacks of a child to

ver be presented to them sideways, or immediately over their heads. The reason for this caution is, that children seek, and pursue almost instin

mmediate perceptible injury may arise; but I am confident in the opinion that the result is often quite otherwise. For many weeks, if not many months of their early existence, they should n

as is the case of sitting around a large blazing fire-the former custom of New England-it is no wonder if the infantile eyes become early injur

ough it is one which accords with the plainest dictates of common sense. Who of us has not experienced the pain of emerging suddenly from the darkness of a cellar to the ordinary light of day? The strongest eyes of the adult are scarcely able to bear the transi

indness from this very cause to which we have referred. The Principal of the Institution for the Blind, at Vienna, says h