Show beecher made victim of childrens prank aenry ward needier was a brejt lover of children he was happiest when seated in his favorite armchair in the evening hla grandchildren climbed and pawed ocr him or nestled in his lap it was on such an occasion when one evening he remembered with a start that it was time for the evening service relates thrift magazine stopping to arrange his toilet he to the plymouth Ily mouth church in brooklyn and appeared before the large audience there was a tittering that grew to a positive of laugh ter for as the divine stood before his audience with all his majestic dignity the audience discerned that his flowing locks had been done up in curl papers momentarily he was non then placing his hand to his head hl fingers found the offending pintails pigtails pig tails some one nearby heard him say much to himself that rascal dalt and then he joined in the gen eral uproar |