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Show Hints for 11 llnchi'lor. .An infant may be as old ns Jietlinso-l.ih Jietlinso-l.ih ;i as youni; as a baby ep!:-jinenn for nil you tan ti ll. Now, you need just on j Mitjpestiou to help you out. It ii tfiiii: If tiio baby is in lont; clolhejj call it a year old. It won't be, but that's rt of the diplomacy. If it's in short clothes and can't talk call it 0 years. - It won't be t hat, but Unit's more diplomacy. If it can talk call it any where from 6 to 6 yean old. Thmistho courpo which things may then be confidently expected to take: The uiotln r proudly exhibits her off-pprir.jr. off-pprir.jr. Heariiia; in mind the rules hero laid down yon say of a lon.n kkirted j'nuni,'.-tT, "What romaikably developed devel-oped child for 0110 a year old!" "Hut it's really only six months, yon know," answers the mother, indulgently unmindful of your mistake becauso of the flattery it implies. In the case of tt short skirted, non-locomotive non-locomotive yoniiffst.-r you will bo safe in saying, "Isn't this a wonderfully tine baby for one four or live years old?" You may bo years out of physical reckoning again, but tho mother will soon sen that it is the precocity of the infant that has misled you, and as before ho wJl pardon par-don much. Keiuetnber this ns you would the Ten Commandments: Always add to tho tore of a baby and subtract from tho ago of its mother. Xo matter how far astray you may go it will never be treasured up against you. New York Evening Suu. |