There is a wealth of interesting experiments and opinions on various phases of child-rearing, and while authorities in the field do not entirely agree on all points, on the vital ones they are fairly well agreed. A study of some perplexing points in raising children is of interest and aid to parents who earnestly approach their task. True it is that most children will manage to "just grow" like Topsy, but there may result in tremendous waste of potentialities of the child, which might have been brought out under a more scientific method of rearing.