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Show The Sleeping Daby "Smile." It Is Interesting to see how old la tho maternal delusion about tho smiling smil-ing of tmhlos In their sleep. All children, chil-dren, iisloep, are taken with a catching catch-ing of the corners of the mouth, which is as unllku as possible to the real smile the humorous and delightful de-lightful llttlo silent sketch of a laugh, appearing first at any agu between a fortnight and n month. Yet hu man sentimentality has Insisted on calling the sleeping grimace (duo to flatulence) a smile, and oven a smile caused by dreams of angols. And Saint Monica must have been ns unintelligible un-intelligible on this point as any other matron, for Salut Augustine, reviewing review-ing In his "Confessions" the growth of his own mind, mentions that ho had been told of tho coming of Infantine Infan-tine smites, "having appeared previously pre-viously to sleep." Thackeray echoes St. Molnlca, for ho shows us Amelia sitting by hor child, "who was smiling smil-ing In hl tileup." No baby over smiled In hlB sleep yet, or Is ever likely to do bo. |