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Show UNCLE HORACE AND THE BAIiX With nil the callousness of a bachelor, Horace declared that nil babies lot 9 nlll e to him but that was before his staler Llll came home (or a lalt 1 9 brougnt her baby. The day she wns to arrive Horace was even unkind etiu I to si that he would be glad to tec Llll, but that he wished sho would lei the bnbs behind 'A baby nlwasi keeps a house all stirred up," ho compltltvl ' tl es aro cither crying or hungry or sleeps In some abnormal stiite, nnd youJl capeded to Ksmpathlzo with nil their woes" Ills mother only remarked, S vcrelv, that ho had once been a baby hlmscK, nnd ono of the ery worst H had c er brought up " H When the triumphant procession nrrlvel, bringing Llll and tho baby f ron ID ntatlon, Horace Mired his sister an 1 then stared ut the white bundle tifl arms. H "Sow, I know sou are simply dying to see the babs," she said, and tvfl removing layers of gauze veiling from the face of the Infant. When theufl pink face was uncovered Hoiace nerved himself to look and think of BumcijB terlng remark that vvculd sitlsfy the mother. He went up gingerly. BJ "Ity Jove! It's rcalls pretty, lsn t It?" he cried. In untactful surprise. H Llll and the other members of the famlls. from hla father down, all lJH at htm resentfulls : Q Of course It's prctts It's a beautiful child!" Ie'oruce tried lo retrieve himself. ' I mcun that It's nice to look at not red and squaali-TooTtlng. It can Its oscs, too, und It's nil fuzzy on top of Its head " 'Ihese unhappy observations only dragged lilm lower In the esteem ol family 1'Icafc coll my baby 'she' and not 'If! ' I. Ill said resentfully. "You lie be to surprised, either, because she Is pretty!" ' Horace tried to expl iln uncvv that he really admired tho baby, but hi In disgrace. The family elbowed lilm away fioin tho baby and left him o: the conversation with ostentatious neglect. Hut the bnbs with the perverslls of Its sex took a great fancy tor Horace. It soon prcfemd lilm to any other member nf the (imlls. and m even leave Its mother's arms for his vhcn sho saw him or heard his voice smiled ecstatic ills' ami gurgled like n little brook This eurt'nt thing won E ace. From a stately Indifference to his niece he came to be her wildest ct plon. He gave her all sorts of girts, from a rattle to a tiny ruby rlnj lonrned to talk tho goo-goo language, and ho became a perfect nuisance II whist club, where he would stop tho lead while he told stories of the beauts cleverness of the babs One evening Llll put the baby to sleep, turned the gas low In tho room went downstairs to Join the family In the library. Slio stole upstairs agic about holf an hour to see If the child were covered and still steplng. femlly were startled by a shrill scrcim. Llll came Using downstairs to say. the Labs was gone. Ilverybody slid this could not be so, and they went upi! with her to search for tho bibs, who couldn t walk nnl could onls crawl tc the room nt about a snail a rato or locomotion. Hut the babs waa gone, ne theless. The family weie quite sure no one had come In at the front iloori Horace went mlt to his whist club, Jim after his sister hid left tho hiby 8 kidnaper had stolen In by tho back stairs or climbed over the porch none of family was really surprised that tho liihs had been stolen, for tlicy hellevt' (Irmly In Its beuuty und clcvciiioss that they were sure that everybolye covet It. 'iho grandfather hurried to the police station, the mints went out to gin ahum to the neighbors Llll nnd her mother nil down alone by the k cradle and gave themselves up to their grief There was the sound or anting ant-ing door and footstep on tho stairs Horace camo Into the room carrylnf huby In his nrms. it was vv nipped In Its cloak and a hlnnket ' Oh, sou've found iny baby! ' Llll cried She und her mother Implore! to tell how he had got It away from Iho kidnapers. They begged to kno ttors. Horace was bewildered mt "Whs." he said "I Just wrapred the babs' "P and slipped over to the iluh with her I vvunled to show her to the fellows I was nfrald you wou. let mo take her If I asked, you are In sure a (tight about her. They thought 1 little darling too' 'And so sou were the one that tool, the biby?" Llll cried "And you! her to the whist club In her nightgown? And I wns nearly wild." The otlur members of Iho (amlly were sent (or. Tho police were told worm I wanted lifter all, and the neighbors wire assured that the babf snfe, Llll held the baby In her nrms. ller mother and sisters itood on r round her ' To think Horace ' she snld, mournfully, "that sou could toko tho baby to sour whist club In her nightgown, when she- has a lovely real lace it JIow could you?' ht Louis Ololm-Democrat, |