... a population of about 7,000. The death-rate in the area 32 per 1,000. as against 16 per 1,000 for the whole town. The infant mortality rate was 252 per 1,000 births, as against 157 per 1,000. A medical mission treated in less than three yeass Lilo cases ...

... was acted The resolatioe was adopted. THE INFANT MORTALITY. Referring to the infant mortality is Wand, the Clerk read a letter from the Local Government Beard dealing with remedies the great rata of mortality. From the published statistics ...

... did it say, then ? —Father: It said Daddy.' —Mother: I'm sure it didn't; it said' Mammy ' quite plainly. —Father (to infant) : Whom does it like best—• pappa or daddy ? —lnfant: Mammy. IDLE WISH. —Brown (impressively): See that man fishing over ...

... may be clothed in the habit of Saint Antheriy,his patron saint, and that his mortal may receive a Christian burial of as simple as possible in the Pantheon of the Infants Monastery of San Lorenzo at the Escurial. The largest amount permissible by law ...

... rear a very feeble Infant in the close air of a at or tenement house; this is the reason the mortality among infants is se great in the city and crowded country towns. A sickly mother's milk is not wholesome food foe delicate infant. Wholesome cow's milk ...

... feathers are as gaily coloured as those of the peacock. The ben is of a dark brown sagebrush colour. The roadrunner has one mortal enemy—the rattlesnake. This reptile is fond of devouring the road-runner's eggs whenever it comes across a nest in the sagebrush ...

... ady to tali. InZ rod from a serpent to a-- A serpent What utter rot you are talking! Ai if any mortal alive would think of acting make! Not a mortal exactly, but it was done in the Garden of Eden. You don't mean to say you've forgotten it? She took ...

... wait until your father comes home! A question of manners.—According to a contemporary, a lady teacher was recently girirg an infant class a lesson in manners. Seirrtig a very small boy, she began, Now, my little nai l . you must remember this. When you ...

... interesting sight. ..el in the nursery. When we approach the the speed with which a shapeless lump of c:sy 'he clothes of infants, she wrote, the The act of the passing generation is the germ becomes a graceful jar under his hands seems time et fact to ...

... tenderly as lie said: Mary, my child, doesn't Charlie like Mr. Brandon ? . let fall the bouquet she held suddenly, as an infant will let fall suddenly anything that may be placed in its hands. Then, groping for her father's shoulder, she laid her head ...

... was in • hurry to get to the reproffese ills re an me Phenemens ea mom make a hit in that Cuban war drama. Marks: i's are mortal: virtue is immortal.— street and I was in a hurry to est& the elevator. triad disiagges. Ilbis antierass • Malls 10U.% the ...

... de Ranits altar, there was a manger with an me and an ass,and made their purchases of Christmas presents at Ham- in it the infant Christ in the arms of his mother. burg instead of in Berlin. This has, of course, Here the three kings offer Him gifts. The ...