CHILDREN should all be taught to eat salad olive oil. It obviates the necessity of administering other oils as medicine, and they get to like it very much. But care should be taken that it is got from a good maker, and that it really is olive oil. With salad or even with cold potato and a few drops of vinegar, this is most wholesome. GAS-PIPES that are not in use are elements of danger, and great care should be taken not to knock them in any way, or hang things upon them so as to cause a leakage. This is very easily done and is not always readily perceived, so that there may be serious mischief before it is discovered. THANK GOD FOR MAY. BY HELEN MARION BURNSIDE. The linnet in the hawthorn bush Her last wee egg has not yet hatched, Though it is May: But see, the nesting mother thrush, By loving mate so proudly watched, Comes forth to-day! A veil of fresh translucent green, A-gleam with opal sparks of dew, Is the array Most meet for dainty Spring, I ween, When all her pretty nymphs anew Troop forth in May. Immortal Spring! for ever fair, Her dews and new-born buds among— Her gardens gay— Her callow birds in leafy lair, And all the beauty, fresh and young, She brings in May! “Thank God for Spring—thank God for all The stirring of new hope it brings,” Each year I say— When orchards bloom, and cuckoos call, And all the land with rapture rings— “Thank God for May.” A HAPPY HEALTHY GIRLHOOD. (_Dedicated to “The Mater.”_) BY “MEDICUS” (DR. GORDON-STABLES, R.N.). “From work she wins her spirits light, From busy day, the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven’s best treasures—peace and health.”—_Gray._ “Wretched, unidea’d girls.”—_Johnson._