THE SCHOOL OF HOME. Let the school of home be a good one. Let reading be such as to quicken the mind for better reading still ; for the school at home is progressive. The baby is to be read to. What shall mother and sister and father and brother read to the baby ? Babyland. Babyland rhymes and jingles; great big letters and little thoughts and words out of Babyland. Pictures so easy to understand that baby quickly learns the meaning of light and shade, of distance, of tree, of cloud. The grass is green ; the sky is blue ; the flowers — are they red or yellow? That depends on mother's house-plants. Baby sees in the picture what she sees in the home and out of the window. Babyland, mother's monthly picture-and-j ingle primer for baby's diversion, and baby's mother-help ; 50 cents a year. What, when baby begins to read for herself? Our Little Men and Women is made to go on with. Baby- land forms the reading habit. Think of a baby with the reading habit ! After a little she picks up the letters and wants to know what they mean. The jingles are jingles still ; but the tales that lie under the jingles begin to ask questions. What do Jack and Jill go up the hill after water for ? Isn't water down hill ? Baby is outgrowing Babyland. No more nonsense. There is fun enough in sense. The world is full of interesting things ; and, if they come to a growing child not in discouraging tangles but an easy one at a time, there is fun enough in getting hold i
