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Show CHILD WHO FELL FROM WINDOW, OF EAGLE BLOCK BEARS A CHARMED LIFE Katherlne Paradice. a child of two years, bears a charmed HfeJ She would be considered by any Insurance company, com-pany, by reason of her past experiences, as a good risk. There is seemingly no danger through which she cannot pass unscathed. Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Paradice, her parents, par-ents, lived until a short time ago in Denver, where the father was employed in the Wolff Manufacturing company's plant They came here several weeks ago and took apartments in the Eagle block, on the third floor. A window, opening from their apartments, was directly di-rectly above the sidewalk, forty feet below. While the attention of the mother was diverted in another direction, direc-tion, the child, her curiosity aroused by the sounds arising from the streets below, be-low, climbed Into the window, lost her balance and shot down to the cement sidewalk. The child's mother screamed and dashed down the stairs to the sidewalk, side-walk, expecting to see the body of her child crushed to a pulp. To her Joy and amasement the child was uninjured. unin-jured. How she escaped a horrible death can only be explained by the fact that the child bears a charmed life. Later the Paradice family secured a house, as Mr. Paradice had decided to remain here. The baby eluded the watchful eyes of the mother a few day ago and clambered up to the attic, where she played for a half hour. Then ahe wanted to go down stairs again. She was in a hurry, and ordinary means of locomotion were not swift enough for her. She accordingly lost her balance while at the top of the landing and fell down stairs. Not content con-tent with rolling down one flight of stairs, she bounded off the landing to the second floor and rolled . and bounced down to the first floor. Again the mother ran screaming to the baby, expecting that her little neck had been broken. Before the mother could reach the little one. however, the child Jumped up and ran away laughing. laugh-ing. Her only Injury was a small bruise on one of her knees. But her guardian angel was not through with her. He had other duties of guardianship to perform and he certainly discharged his Trust Last Tuesday the child was playing alone in the bedroom, and bean to examine ex-amine the contenta of a laree, old-fashioned old-fashioned wardrobe that stood in the room. The doors of the wardrobe were cloaed. and in some manner the child disturbed the equilibrium of the top-heavy top-heavy piece of furniture. It toppled over, with the child standing stand-ing directly in its path. As it fell the doors swung open and scooped up the child, who was lodged safe and sound within the capacious interior of the wardrobe. When the wardrobe, struck the floor the door were slammed shut and the baby was aa safe as she ever was in her little crib. The mother, by almost superhuman efforts, righted the wardrobe, and was amazed that the child's crushed and mangled body was not beneath it A cry, muffled and indistinct was heard. Issuing from the interior of the wardrobe. ward-robe. The mother opened the doors, and there was her darling, smiling through her tears of fright and amazement. amaze-ment. The baby had not even been scratched. |