Funny, but not too funny Once you get past the standard greeting cards , they begin to be a bit more specific to certain circumstances. Many people are unsure of what type of standard card to give. To solve this dilemma they tend to opt for a humorous card because they don’t want to be too personal but still want to show that they care enough to be thinking about the occasion for that person. The choice that needs to be made is; what is humorous and what goes past the line in terms of taste? In a general sense, it’s up to the giver but the greeting card manufacturers do have your back. The humorous cards that they manufacturer tend to be fairly specific in the greetings that they give. In other words, they try to structure the card greeting so that the recipient doesn’t take the greeting the wrong way. But, given that there are so many ways to take a greeting the wrong way the giver should err on the side of being bland, rather than trying to impose their sense of humor on the recipie...
Infants are very susceptible of the impressions of cold; a proper regard, therefore, to a suitable clothing of the body, is imperative to their enjoyment of health. Unfortunately, an opinion is prevalent in society, that the tender child has naturally a great power of generating heat and resisting cold; and from this popular error has arisen the most fatal results. This opinion has been much strengthened by the insidious manner in which cold operates on the frame, the injurious effects not being always manifest during or immediately after its application, so that but too frequently the fatal result is traced to a wrong source, or the infant sinks under the action of an unknown cause. The power of generating heat in warm-blooded animals is at its minimum at birth, and increases successively to adult age; young animals, instead of being warmer than adults, are generally a degree or two colder, and part with their heat more readily; facts which cannot be too generally known. They show how...