Show ilic picture tuie it is a chinese superstition that having a babas picture taken is a sure precursor of illness if not no death strangely tho the superstition has baa been apparently rifled verified ri fied in tho the case of the baby of the chinese minister at washington the minister refused to permit the childs portrait to be made but the r secretary ecret ary of the legation who was disposed to be ak skeptical rep took the child surrepta surreptitiously piously to a photographers since then the baby has been very ill chicago dispatch |