... but unknow- ing in the pangs and joys of a mother's heart. They are assisted by a young doctor, who is here studying infant mortality on a lag clthat he may gain experience whereby to keep in health thepeiu nat ftemr fortunate of the same great city. ...

... the benefits B. s of sterilisation was that it abolished a prolific of method of transmitting disease and lessened infant by If mortality Sterilised milk could be delivered in Wi a bottles and boxes like mineral waters, as frequently l, or infrequently ...

... wan great mortality amongst infants, and Le believed a great deal of it could be prevented with proper feeding and proper treatment, It there were greater knowledge in this matters they would not have the large mortality they had amongst infants (hear, hear) ...

... , POET RY. ON A DEAD INFANT, Yes, this is Death, but in its fairest form, And stripp'd of all its terrors, That clos'd eye Tellsuothiung of the cold anid 1iungry worm- That holds his revel feast on frail mortality. Yes,- this is Death-but like a cherrb's ...

... Jesting breath May fail on a lietniug ear. And draw the soul from the rusty sheath To work and win the rarest wreath That mortal brow can wear. Ton tiny buad Is holdlng fast Gay Plora's fairest gemvi, Let tile sunlight stay and the shower go past, And ...

... ciangest~iot to mortal eyes. 1 ?? thee, stlr, so celm, so still, Expressive of a mighty will; Of patient horo, of lrfecet love- ofpaith a truth sublime above. How glorious is the sky we see, Dciv ?? must be the Doity Bleised bevond all mortal thought, Amidst ...

... be of better cheer; !'or children now are singing )f lethlohem's Infant bringing Good-;i; and 'peace of 'old, in the winter wild anddrear. .\ot as a king in splendour, ?? as an infant tendor, Came tb l; - rfect Son of God, on the long.expeoted morn ...

... the influence of a mother's love On Childhood's dawning heart. The earnest eyes, That droop all tenderly above the brow Of infant innocence, pour from their deeps The sympathetic softness of their gaze; And the young heart wakes to it like a flower Opening ...

... enrapturd May. The Butterfly, on phnions bright; Launct'd in full splendour ozi the day. tneonscious of a mnother's care, No infant wretchedue- she knew But, as she felt the vernal air, At once to full perfection grew. Her slender form, ethereal, light. ...

... utt;llutned by Hlope. INFANTS SLEEPING. Tsstv, careless of the psresent, sleep- Unsimndfssl of the past- As If their little slusoborisg eyes .Had goned on earths their last. No thoughts of hoarding present wealth Their infant minds contain,- No mem'ry ...

... and weakes To the same barren laughter: 't is a child Perpetually, and all its past and future Lie in the compass of ans infant's day. Crush'd from oeir sorrow, all that 'a great In man -las ever sprung. In the bold Pagan world Mebn deified the beautiful ...

... Longest and best display thy power; Waft me above this lower sphere, Visions to see and sotmds to hear, TUlfyinn'd, where mortals truth belie; Unseen, except ?? Eye; And, as too bright for human ken, The waking trance ?? me-tben, With soothing measures ...