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Show An amateur charity worker, visiting a family in the tenement district, was alarmed to see the mother dash a cup of cold water in the face of the baby she had just finished dressing. Too polite to express amazement, the visitor held her breath, expecting the air to be rent with screams. When none came, the child merely mere-ly whimpering, she said: "Dear me, I should think he'd object more ' than that?" "Wouldn't ye, now?" said the fond mother admir'ngly; "sure I've been practicing on him for three weeks. He won't yell when he's baptized next Sunday. He'll be used to it!" Pennsylvan'a Grit. |