All these are a part of the habit-drill of the very earliest years.

They are bound up with the acquirement of those personal habits of health and propriety before indicated.

It is not for nothing that women from the oldest time have been noted for their power of speech and habit of talking.

They have had to give every little child the start toward that most indispensable key to all knowledge, the use and understanding of language.

And the mother, or the woman who acts for the mother, knows what the child says before any one else can understand his fumbling at speech.