LOLLYPOPS

Although there is an undoubted value in sugaring the diet, it has been observed, and rightly observed, that the main purpose of lollypops is to give the child a substitute for his thumb. The vari-coloured aspect of the product has also been stressed by some authorities as an important factor in attracting and focusing the child's attention. No person or organization, however, with the exception of the Boston Traveler, has ever promoted the American lollypop as the eternal panacea for all infant ills.

Frequently has the fatherly editorial column of the above newspaper advocated that bibs, tuckers, rattles, and other appurtenances of infancy are suitable for Harvard men. From the press printed elsewhere in this column, it might even be conjectured that this laudable perseverance apparently directed to benefit the student springs, in reality, from bitterly ironic inkwells. If this hypothesis is correct, such a consistently unsympathetic attitude is crushing and borders dangerously on infanticide.