Teething. The judicious manage ment of dentition is the prevention o a great majority of infantile disorders. One of the first symptoms of it is a heat in the mouth, perceptible while suck. ling. The child's food should be lessened, and it should be furnished with an increased supply of cold water while dentition is going forward.

It is highly injudicious to treat this disorder by the use of opiates, which many empirical preparations contain; these injure by a direct influence on the brain, in inducing stupor, and indirectly, by totally suppressing that discharge which was, within limits, a natural effort to relieve.

Equally erroneous is it to administer full doses of anodynes for the purpose of lulling to sleep. We do not so decidedly object to the rubbing of the gum with one drop of the soothing syrup; if this be not swallowed, it will sometimes be beneficial.

A coral is not the substance most proper for an infant's gums to press on. A penny square of India rubber, cut in the form of a cross, is the most suitable for the tender gums.

If the bowels are confined, and will not yield to diet, a gentle purgative, as magnesia or castor-oil, must be given without delay. Lancing the gums should always be adopted if they are swollen, red, hot, and painful. The warm-bath will be found an excellent soother, especially where irritation exists.

Dew.-Who does not admire the bright crystal drops that in the early morning glisten and sparkle on every leaf and flower, and every blade of grass? Who, in young, careless childhood, has

The vapour of the air is condensed into dew by coming in contact with substances colder than itself. After sunset the warm earth radiates its heat into the air, and the surrounding vapour becomes chilled by contact with the cold surface, and settles on it in clear liquid drops. This occurs only when the night is fine, and free from clouds; for, at such times, there is nothing to prevent the radiation of heat from the ground, whilst clouds act as an obstruction to the heat; consequently on a cloudy night no dew falls.

Dew is always most plentiful in open situations, where there are no houses, trees, &c., to check the escape of the heated air; while, on the other hand, the ground beneath a tree in full foli age remains dry.

It is a wise adaptation of Providence that those things which require most moisture radiate heat most freely, and collect the largest quantity of dew; grass, vegetables, and the leaves of plants, which are dependent upon it for sustenance, part with their warmth rapidly and abundantly, while polished metal and smooth stones are bad radiators of heat.

In all cultivated ground, also, a large supply of dew is yielded; for loose soil readily throws off its warmth, and the genial moisture sinks down to nourish the seeds and roots lying embosomed in the earth. How little we consider the wise arrangement of these seeming trifles! We pass by, and think not of such trivial things, and yet God heeds them, and forgets not the use of even a drop of dew.

On a gusty night the wind evaporates the dew as it falls, and in the morning the flowers are disappointed of their fresh glittering ornaments.

is often best not to show the lines or wires by which the pictures hang. This is done by nailing a strong cord across the back, about two inches below the top, and then suspending it from two nails standing out but a little way from the wall.

When there are several pictures in a room, the ordinary rule is, to have either the upper or lower edge of the frames in a line, on whichever side they may be hung.

Gruel. There are two ways of preparing gruel; one from the whole grain, whether oat, barley, or rice; the other from meal. The former is generally preferred as most delicate and secure from adulteration; the latter is much more convenient when wanted quickly. There is no nicer gruel than that made of whole oats, with merely the husks removed, or once flattened by passing through a mill. The former are called whole groats; the latter cracked, or Embden groats; the fresher they are used the better. If kept at all after being cracked it should be in a closely shut vessel, whether glass, earthen, or tin, and in a very dry place.

The Embden groats done up in paper soon become sour. The coarse Scotch oatmeal, and fine oatmeal purchased by measure of an honest meal-man, is far preferable to those called "prepared," and sold in paper packets. Whether it is owing to the " preparation," or the mode of keeping, it is hard to obtain from the latter article good, wellflavoured gruel.

For groat gruel, the whole or cracked groats should be set on with cold water, and a sufficient quantity of it to allow for at least one-third boiling away. It must be frequently stirred, and should not be allowed to boil over. It is not merely the quantity actually spilt that is wasted, but in the early stage of the process the most nourishing part of the grain rises in the form of scum, which afterwards sinks, and then enriches the whole.

A quarter of a pint of groats will make one quart of thick gruel, being

set on with three pints of water, and boiled three quarters of an hour; then strain. The groats may be boiled again with rather more than a pint of water put to them boiling, and will produce nearly another pint of gruel.

For meal gruel, one large spoonful of oatmeal (either Scotch or fine); mix it very smoothly with two tablespoonfuls of cold water. Stir into a pint of water boiling on the fire. Let it boil briskly ten or fifteen minutes, then strain.

For either sort of gruel, a bit of fresh butter and a little salt may be stirred in, or a little sugar and nutmeg.

Rice gruel may be made of ground rice just in the same manner.

As it is generally prescribed when the bowels are in a disordered state, it is of special importance that the rice be perfectly pure and in good keeping. Persons who often use ground rice will do well to have a mill, and grind it at home as wanted.

A stick of cinnamon and a few chips of dried Seville orange-peel may be boiled in the gruel for flavour. If rinsed and dried, they will serve two or three times in succession. When strained, sweeten with loaf sugar, and add a grate of nutmeg.

Rice gruel is sometimes ordered to be made with port wine or brandy, and it is possible for a sick person to be in such a state as to render these additions suitable, but they should never be used but in cases of emergency, and under medical direction. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they would do no good, but would probably do great harm. We are pleased to observe a growing reluctance on the part of the profession to prescribe alcohol but in most exceptional cases.

Thick gruel, whether of oat, barley, or rice, may be thinned with new milk, and is a very nourishing and agreeable food, when the particular disorder does not render it unsuitable.

Chest Preservers.-No portion of the human body requires more protection from cold than the chest. Various chest protectors, as they are termed,

have been devised for this purpose, and the most popular of these are made of wash-leather, lined, or of hare or rabbit-skin, also lined. As at present made and used, these are very dangerous contrivances. They keep out the cold, it is true, but they hinder the exhalation so necessary to health constantly going on from the surface of the skin, and to a greater extent in the region of the chest where the lungs are situated. Those who employ them are often in a high state of fever, especially felt when the weather changes suddenly from being cold to a mild temperature; colds are frequently thus generated, the causes of which are unknown to the sufferers, or believed to arise from other circumstances.

To render chest protectors useful for the purpose of keeping the chest warm, they should be perforated with a number of small holes about the size of a grain of pearl barley, so as to permit the escape of perspiration from the pores of the skin. The prepared thin leather and hare-skin protectors, unless perforated, retain the impurities that are constantly being exuded. The use of flannel for the same purpose is not liable to the same objection, being a porous material. In all cases, persons should have several of them, in order to admit of a frequent change.

Unless the suggestions now pointed out are attended to, these useful articles of clothing, instead of being chest protectors, are most injurious.

Pillar Roses. To ornament a garden, there is no kind of shrub, however beautiful, so well adapted to take various forms as the rose. It can be used as a dwarf to fill the smallest beds, as a bush to plant amongst evergreens, and as a tall standard to form avenues of roses on each side of a walk. In the centre of larger circular beds it is often planted in groups, with half-standards around, and dwarfs in the front, thus forming an amphitheatre of roses, which, when in bloom, is one of the finest sights in the floral garden; again, as climbers, to ornament the amateur's villa, or the

more humble abode of the cottager ; also, to plant against bare walls and palings, forming drooping shrubs, when budded on high standards, waving gracefully their boughs, laden with fragrance and bloom, in the warm gales of summer and autumn. What can be more desirable? All these forms are certainly very pleasing, and, however elegant their appearance, still none of them show off the beauty and grandeur of the rose so effectively as training it upwards to a pillar.

In the gardens of the gentry of this country, pillars for roses are frequently made of iron rods, with arches of the same, or small chains hung loosely from pillar to pillar, so as to form beautiful festoons of those lovely flowers. These arches and chain festoons of roses on each side a terrace walk have a splendid effect. Sometimes the arch is thrown over the walk only, and the roses trained accordingly. They may either be made of a single upright rod, or with four rods at about nine inches distant from. each other, thus forming a square pillar, fastened with cross pieces of strong wire. The rose may be planted in the centre, and the branches as they grow be trained to each corner rod, and the small shoots arranged between them. Bring all the shoots to the outside, and do not allow any to twine round the rods, but tie them to each other with bar matting or small string, as they can then be easily loosened from the pillars whenever they require paintingan operation that must not be neglected, as the iron would soon rust, and thereby injure the plants, and be very unsightly.

Previously to planting the roses the soil should be rendered rich, so that they may grow quickly, flower freely, and cover the pillars, arches, and festoons, as soon as possible.

This rather modern and pleasing mode of culture cannot be too strongly recommended, and for that purpose, if expense be an object, we would suggest that poles, either of oak, ash, hazel, or larch, may be used by fixing them