Show T THE H E B BABY A ek y BY liy ASHTON ras aas ran the baby sits bits in her cradle cradie watching hatchig the iho world go 0 round Enwrap ed in a mystical silence A amid all the tumult of sound she must bo akin alan athe to the flowers for no one has heard A whispered word 2 from prom this silent baby ot of ours oum wondering she looks itt at tho the children child real reak I 1 I 1 tas aa they merrily laughing pass and smiles oer her face go rippling I 1 like sunshine over avei the grass and into the heart odthe ot the tho flowers but never a word r hab has yet been heard from this silent darling of ours oura has she a wonderful wisdom ot of unspoken knowledge a store hid uld aw away ayrom from all curious eyes like the mysterious lore ot of the birds ana ank anatra and tha tra bees and laud the flow now ers is ls Js 13 this why nd word has iras ever been heard t from this silent bablot biby bt ours often she seems to listen to something we never can know berha perhaps Ps to the voices of angl 13 who silently come como and go making brighter her golden r with many a word 1 that will never be hoard board from this silent baby ot of ours I 1 I 1 ah baby from out your blue eyes r the angel of silence la ii smiling tough though silvern hereafter your speech your silence is golden be beguiling guills all ail hearts to 6 tats darling ot ours p who not a word ot of all she sho has heard like the birds the bees and the tho flova flow I 1 ers erg iV omana journal i dorit dollt Don fc a quaker even ever take tae oft his hatto hat to any one mamma no my dear if he dont take hat t to 6 tiie the barber ho how does ho ever gathis get his hair cuu cut A columbus ohio man lately learned what it was to li have e insult added to injury in being first scared out of his wits by his borses honses horses running away with him andeen and then arrested and fined for dri driving aing at an illegal rate of speed I 1 bailey of the danbury news mews says no I 1 than kyou kyo 11 11 to an ark invitation vi onto to go to new hand kand adds aads your big city likes fresh oranges but it very quickly sucks thein them dry and throws them away I 1 dont want to be sucked dry ri night right lit boffl so I 1 think ill dil remain where I 1 am ive lve seen from my country home how clever fellows turn out who go to new york with grand expectation expectations tat ions lons they gave up something and in the end found nothing I 1 am glad you want to have me C come oil ori ae but I 1 am gladder I 1 dont want to come the young ladies of vassar college colage include horseback riding and rowing among their other ilc accomplishments on the bosom of the little lake at the foot of the college hill there is quite a cluster of boats and the tile fair saucy eyed girls mako make themselves much at home on the water they pull an easy oar and in the boats look the tile picture of grace and beauty there is common sense in theman thaman the man argement of vassar in teaching the girls to take an interest in physical pastimes the professors do huchto much to counteract the effects of tight lacing and close confinement in the study room the girls wh who 0 practice rowing will make stronger better and purer women than those who are reared after the fashion of hothouse hot house plants A louisville la lawyer nyer lately met with a singular mishap his wife wanted wastepaper waste paper for the manufacture of a certain article of her dress which may or may not ibe lie properly called by us a bustle newspapers being scarce in that house mrs attorney seized upon certain important legai legal documents which she found in her husbands office and with them constructed the desired appendage the case in which these papers were to be used came on for trial but in con 11 sequence of madams little theft they try it a bit an inquiry was instituted in short hort 1 thero there there was a row about it and the ingenious ous culprit confessed restored the depositions and ab Q f forth orth jand and we w suppose took su h a lecture U on grand gnand larceny froin her husband as she never before had in her life |