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Show Brand Infants. Owing to tho dlmculty In Identifying Identify-ing persona In after life who have been lost or stolen or perhaps disfigured disfig-ured in nn accident, a now Idea Is that every lnnint should bo bianded by an Individual mark which ma) bo tegis-tcisd tegis-tcisd and kept for futuro use. It Is rather an Interesting proposition proposi-tion and leaves much room for oiig Inallty nnd taste on tho mothor's part In choosing a design to be tattooed upon ho'r otTspiIng Initials would scaicely suffice, for they might ensll bo duplicated, there being more than ono John Smith or nilzahoth White In tho vvoild. A family trade-mark In tho shape, pet haps, of a coat-of-arms might sutllce. but tho suggestion, if carried Into effect, would revive what Is now almost a lost nrt. Tho Idea Itself Is, however, not a bad ono and it might almost be said to bo sufficient suf-ficient to tin n a would-be criminal from his wrongdoing when he thinks of tho mark Indellhl) engraved with the consent of a fond mother, who never di earned that thh samo llttlo mark inscribed with loth:' caio might lead to tho Identification of a roguo In d.tjs to come. It Is a wldo stop between the tin Innocent baby and the hardened wiotch, but who knows whether, after all, such ilmark on a childish arm might not restrain the older man from a wicked act, If not restoring him to a lost Identity? Philadelphia Ledger |