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Show SERVANTS, BUT NO PLAYMATES, FOR THIS BIB Y IS W0M$ 10,000,000; Only Thing: He Can Do ; Like other Children Is to Make Mud Pics; All r His Playthings Arc Sterilized. - DEINKS Cream at $10 a pint. . EATS Eggs that cost 26 cents each. SLEEPS . On a white hair mattress worth $500. And his name is Just BROWN. NEWPORT, p. I.. Nt. L Worth' $10,-. $10,-. ('W.OOO In hlfl own name If he could write his name John Nicholas Brown, 4 years old, has arrived here with hip retinue, Including In-cluding his beautiful young mother, a miscellaneous assortment of maids, nurses and governesses, his coachmen, grooms and an Immense aggregation of luggage gathered in his continental tours. But surrtunded with more of his own wealth than any other chiid in the world. John Nicholas is yet to learn the joys ot having playmates, playmates who can rip their little trousers sliding down a cellar door without having their mothers tell them: "John, that is pure extravagance. Those . trousers cost you $00ii." His Nightly Prayer. -But with all his wealth and all his luxuries lux-uries John Nicholas says the same little nickle-plated. unjeweled nightly prayer which the poor children of many generations genera-tions before him and of many lands have known: Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake. I pray the Lord my soul to take. God bless mamma. His wealth has not bought him any better bet-ter prayer than that, although he does kneel beside a golden bed as he repeats It. The Sterilized Baby. John Nicholas Brown is a type of the 'sterilized baby," as they have come to be known. His grandmother, living across Bellevue avenue, is a great stickler stick-ler for sanitation and sterilization, and ' even ' the big granite iron spoon with which John Nicholas makes mud pies is " ' sterilized. The milk, the water, the food, . the clothing, the bedding everything is sterilized. If the child gets a germ it will be In breathing. But It is a lonely and isolated life John Nicholas is living. He only knows a quarter of the Joys of mud pies, because he has no playmates to be customers. He . can't play with the gardener's little boy, because he isn't sterilized, and besides, he isn't rich. He ean't play with other rich children because they are not as rich as he is. He must try to let his nurse, who gets $200 a month, amuse him. He can t bite holes In hla blocks or toys, because the paint on them is poisonous. He can't suck his thumb, because it will make It abnormal Has No Playmates. He can't play marbles, because he has no rlaymates. He must Just look prim and sedate and try to frown on other lit tie bovg. His grandmother has set apart a JlO.ono Jersey cow in a pasture worth $100,000 to supply John Nicholas with milk. The milkmaid's hands must be sterilized when she milks the cow into a sterillzd pail. A private watchman watches the cow to see that it does not feed on the fence, which , is painted green. The doctor calls frequently, whether or not John Nicholas is sick. He takes his temperature, his respiration and his pu'a. He makes long and costly records of this and holds himself in readiness for any Immediate Im-mediate call. ;' King of Mud Pies. i ne one thing in which this pampered child is permitted to indulge which is en-joved en-joved by the poorest children is the making ma-king of the mud pies. On warm days he can spend half an hour in the back yaid in a specially constructed spot, and there, while a nurse and a cn'rness watch him to see that he-doesn't t .'irty and thereby there-by get the full it.'.-- t ' t of the thing, he tries to cM .:. -i.vt of childhood without getti:v :' . K soiltd. The Brown.- v-main here until the cold weather ts I::, and then they will go to the handsome home owned by the child in Providence, there to remain through the wintt-r. except for a shopping trip now and taen to New York. |