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Show CHATTER. It is interesting to note the early age at which the young idea, in some infants, begins be-gins to shoot regardless of any especial teaching, says the New York Recorder. When Jack was eighteen months old his mother took him from the city, where the boundary of his small world had" been that part of Central Cen-tral park l3"ing between the tennis grounds and the upper lake, to a farmhouse in the mountains at Liberty. On the stage ride from the station he hailed each passing tree as a "yittle piece of a park." At the farm- ' house one of his chief delights consisted in watciiing a iiock ot wauaiing, solemn geese. Two months later baby Jack went to the seashore sea-shore to finish his summer outing, and at the sight of the catboats which dotted the water with their white sails be clspped his dimpled brown hands, crying out, "( mamma, bee 'e pitty dooso boats " Konald wa 5 years old when he fell ill with scarlet fever and was quarantined in the nursery with mamma as nurse. During his convalescence th doctor cautioned mamma not to let anything come into the sick room except such articles as could either be scalded or burned. Ronald looked very grave when he heard this repeated several times and lookinar up from tin and wooden soldiers which ho was marshaling on the sewing board, said "Mamma, these can be scalded or burned, but what are you going to do with meV" Charlie is a little boy with a peculiarly mixed lot of relations. He has among others a great-aunt, a step-uncle and some step-brothers and sisters, to say nothing of a grandfather and a great-grandmother. The other day, after his brother had left the house to escort a young lady home, Charlie said: "Mamma, if Harry marries will he be my brother just the same a he is now'" "Certainly, said mamma, "why do you ask?" "I thought maybe he miht be my step-brother or a grand or great something or other," and Charlie gave a little sigh as if he felt that life held some puzzling problems. |