Laurel Vane;

or,

THE GIRLS' CONSPIRACY.

By MRS. ALEX McVEIGH MILLER.

(SWEETHEART)

NEW YORK:

GEORGE MUNRO'S SONS, PUBLISHERS,

17 to 27 Vandewater Street.

for the Woman of Fashion
à la Spirite
C/B Corsets
Straight Front Models

[THE MOTHER'S MISSION.]

1840

1907

A great Emperor once asked one of his noble subjects what would secure his country the first place among the nations of the earth. The nobleman's grand reply was "Good mothers." Now, what constitutes a good mother? The answer is conclusive. She who, regarding the future welfare of her child, seeks every available means that may offer to promote a sound physical development, to the end that her offspring may not be deficient in any single faculty with which nature has endowed it. In infancy there is no period which is more likely to affect the future disposition of the child than that of teething, producing as it does fretfulness, moroseness of mind, etc., which if not checked will manifest itself in after days.