was trying to bend a pin so it could not prick the baby.

"That is a good idea," said his rather. "I will see what I can do." For
his father knew that what would help his own baby would help all other
babies. So he, too, tried, and at last he made the safety-pin that is in
use all over the world. And though it was the father who finally made
it, the thought came to him from Harrison, and his thought grew from the
unselfish wish to made his baby brother comfortable. So we can truly say
that it was to a little boy, and to a little boy's kind thought, that we
owe the invention of the safety-pin.

--_Adele E. Thompson._




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Good Reading.


The habit of good reading once acquired will be of inestimable value to
a child all his life. Great care should be exercised at first that a
taste for good literature be not spoiled by an earlier perusal of the
more trashy stories so easily obtained.