Babyhood . AT 27 MONTHS. Baby Eleanor fifteen. They are both bright,healthy, active children. I need not say how busy they keep their mothers heart and brain,and, alas ! I am not an over-wise or patientmother. We think our little boy a born artist I Hebegan when only ten months old to amuse him-self with a pencil, and is never so happy as withone in his hand, unless when his father or Idraw for him In spite of most constant watch-ing, he frescoed the wall of his nursery up to theheight of his tiny figure, and was a terrible van-dal if an illustrated book fell in his way, never

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