Show GIVEN IN MARRIAGE Baby Faiths Faith's Screams Rouse Madge From Deep By ADELE GARRISON Lillian often has has' said that for goIng goIng gong go go- Ing ng to sleep at any moment she has bas hashe the he faculty of a fireman if given the opportunity and she proved her ber assertion within ten minutes of her Injunction to me From the couch opposite mine I could hear her soft oft regular breathing breathing fortunately fortunately she never snores for snores for interminable hours it I seemed to me after we had climbed into bed But try as ei I might and might and I exhausted exhaust exhaust- ed cd d all the devices for wooing slum slum- I berI ser I could not get to sleep My imagination was like a train with its engineer asleep or dead in its ra racing g flight through all sorts of horrors Twice I arose without with disturbing Lillian and went into the room where Baby Faith was sleeping elso also the room beyond occupied for tonight by Junior end and Roderick I 1 wanted to assure myself that they were safe but even the sight of my baby daughter daugh daugh- ter tar Faith with her tiny dimpled hands lands thrown above her head heed in that posture so reassuring to mothers because because be be- cause of at its indication of health or that of Junior and Roderick curled into hedgehog balls tailed failed to quiet my I nerves I heard the hall clock cof softly romy chime four and nd must have finally slipped into sleep immediately afterward for tor forI torI I heard no more until Faiths Faith's piercing pierc pierc- ing lag yells yell brought me bolt boIt upright I did not rush to her for with the experience of motherhood motherhood mother mother- hood I rc recognized the hunger bunger Y yell ll of babies and knew that there was nothing the matter with her that her morning bottle wo would not satisfy Lillian on the Job F From m Katherine's kitchenette Lillian LUhan busy with the preparation of the bottle formula gave an amused chuckle I thought shed bcd win out she said I heard her first You know she starts out pianissimo and end then as the sense of her wrongs grows she increases the tone I hurried in shutting shut shut- ut ting the door behind me rue hoping you wouldn't waken I fL fixed ed her up for the day and assured her In my very best baby talk that her bottle would be in her mouth in record-breaking record time S But I she he believed me M WM With all aU the skepticism with which ten weeks In this vale of ot tears has endowed her sho sho- fixed me inc with her calm blue eyes and proceeded to show what she ahe could do in the way of a arc areal rc real yell She has hIlS some voice that daughter of yours Madgel If U she doesn't gain fame and fortune as a coloratura soprano you probably can rent her out as an an auctioneer What are you going to todo do as I 1 padded to the door having donned bathrobe and sUpper slippers Earn deep anathemas by picking her up I answered I 1 cant can't stand her screaming although I know theres there's nothing the matter motter with her hex Mother Iother Love Katrina do you Lillian retorted with a w watchful eye upon the formula She isn't so hidebound hidebound hide hide- bound on rules as she makes out pick up Faith I when the theWl thew w Wl w t iO got ot a a bit in practicing her scales But she says it doesn't do a bit of good goodu I said id I hurried I I 1 know it it as through the door adding with a touch of obstinacy but Im I'm going to pick her up and cuddle her just the same More power to you Lillian r re re- re toned And then I 1 was wa standing over ovar my small daughter who with her small face screwed up and red with anger was sending out yells that would have done credit to a baby t twice wice ce her age Baby I Baby Sweetheart Dont Don't cry like that thaU I adjured her lifting her ler tenderly into my ray arms and tucking tuck ing her head into the hollow of ot my neck As always when I clasp her thus there went over me a wave Nave of f emotion emo tion compounded of intense love for fortier or her tier tenderness for her helplessness and a little unworthy jealousy of Katherine who has so much more more ather of at her tier than I. I As Faith Falth continued her cries aries with not a seconds second's abeyance because of my cuddling a a. a memory seized me of the way Junior when about her hu hunge age would quit sobbing and tuck his head into my neck whenever I picked I him up W Was s it because I had taken care of him myself and was Katherine Kath Kath- erine wholly sincere in her ller statement to ia Lillian that it didn't do any good to pick up Faith If It Katherine h had d been in my place would not the baby have stopped topped crying at her Continued tomorrow Copyright l 1933 K F. F S S. Inc nc |