. Babyhood . of hoods, and even makes a pretty trimming fordark cloth coats, looking like astrakhan whenworked of chinchilla worsted and put on in adouble row. The cut so clearly shows the man-ner of working that no word of explanation isnecessary. The requisite hairpin of heavy cop-per wire will be furnished at a trifling cost in anyhardware-store, it being necessary merely to bendthe wire into shape. 76 BABYHOOD. HIGH-CHAIR NE day our boy saw a skeletonand exclaimed, O mamma !see an empty man ; hes justbones. When he was five years oldhe was taken to visit a geo-logical museum,
. Babyhood . of hoods, and even makes a pretty trimming fordark cloth coats, looking like astrakhan whenworked of chinchilla worsted and put on in adouble row. The cut so clearly shows the man-ner of working that no word of explanation isnecessary. The requisite hairpin of heavy cop-per wire will be furnished at a trifling cost in anyhardware-store, it being necessary merely to bendthe wire into shape. 76 BABYHOOD. HIGH-CHAIR NE day our boy saw a skeletonand exclaimed, O mamma !see an empty man ; hes justbones. When he was five years oldhe was taken to visit a geo-logical museum, and wasmuch interested in a cast ofa huge prehistoric animal ;he asked his mother thename, which she read to himfrom the label, but could notanswer his many questionsabout its habits. A day ortwo afterward the professorwhose museum he had visiteddined at his mothers, and though he was very shyand stood in great awe of the doctor, yet his desirefor information was so great that at the first pausein the conversation he burst out : Doctor, whatdid the megatherium eat ? —Mrs. y. M. Trimbel,Montclair, N. J. —We were once blessed with a neighbor who wasmost constant in watching over and correcting ourfaults and shortcomings. One day, while she wascalling, my little girl (six years old) ran into theroom, not knowing any one was there but mam-ma. One little hand was put out to shake handswith the guest, but that lady drew back and ver
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