How To Clothe Children

Every one will observe that a favorito article of winter clothing for cbildren is a comforter swathed around the neck. This is a great error ; the feet and the w riste are the proper members to keep warm; the face and throat will harden into a healthy indifference to cold; bnt that muffler, exchauged for an extra pair of thick socks and knitted gloves, would preserve a boy or girl really warm and well. Bronchitis and sore throat have declined 50 per cent, since the absurd use of high collars and twice-around neckerchiefs went out of fashion; and if the poor would take better oare of their cliildren's feet, half the infantile tnortalilty would disappear. It only eostn a trifle to put a piece of thick feit or cork into the bottom of a boot or shoe, but the difference is often considerable between that and a doctors bil], with perhaps the undertaker's besides. Among other English customs has grown, in this country, the fashion of candelabra in the dining-room. The fashion of wearing beads, dogcollara and velvet neck ribbons close up about the throat continuos. A great many people take off their relig ion with their Suuday clothes and hang it up in the closet so it will be fresh next Sunday. It is a wise thing to do, for that kind of religión couldn't stand tha raoketof every-day temptation. - Chicago Ledger. One of the quickest horse trades on record was made recently in Oentral Falle. A man was driving his horse, attaohed to an open carriage, along Central street, when another person, also in an open carriage, tried to pass him. Just as the oarriages were abreast the man in the second named oarriage shouted, "How will you trade horses?" "Even," quickly replied the other, and without any further talk about the merits or demerita of either horse both were unhitched, harneases changed, Litched up again, and away went the teams, each driver apparently satisfled with thé trade. A strange faot is that neither of the