Show AFRAID OF WATER People Who Have an Antipathy to Performing Their Ablutions In the Ccvcnnca Once in a little town I was called to a yearold baby Noticing the Irritated slate of the skin t asked the mother If she ever washed him Washed hunt aim icpllcd Indignantly Indignant-ly no Indeed madam I What makes you think 1 would do such a thins He has alwaya been delicate but ll Is not my fault for I can truthfully nay 1 have never touched him with water hot or cold coldThat That the preceding ncncratlon had an equal antipathy to peifoimlng tlinlr ablutions ablu-tions I Uncovered ones day when letting my baby boy paddle In the brook A dear old lady over 70 the nurse of the village watclud him with iroat Intoical then jho turned to mo and nnlil Thcie now and lo think you are not afraid cf the Hltln dear wetting his pretty feet Why I have never put mlno m water Hlncc I was born I was oonsuHod for a girl who had taken ta-ken a chill 1 ordered a hot built The messenger uusitred me no one would take the responsibility of adtnlnlutcrlni ao heroic a remedy Would I come and au porlnltiml I aurccd lo do BO and gave directions to luivo everything early by the Units I arrived I found thu mother hnd sisters uouem blcd cit tho patients bcdalde looking like people prepared for the worst I coaxed the girl Into the bath and lucking up my sleeves took advantage of Ito chance of nonplnff her well When she had sat a few nilntile In the tub nhc exclaimed Why It In qullo nice After she was snug In bed again a knock was huurd and a neighbor put her head In her faro full of the deepest concert She said 1 heard your poor Tnall wan lo havn a Imtli I have como lo ace If aho la mill alive Luckily the Rlrl rccovprod tn a few dnyuCornhlhl Magazine |