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Show IMAGERY OF BABY LANGUAGE. What One Mother Learned About Her Child's Speech. A mother who has made a careful, although wisely unostenslble, study of her boy's mode of expression, declares that she has been surprised and entertained enter-tained to see what a wealth of Intelligent Intelli-gent imagery Ilea at the root of baby talk. He met his first emphatic scolding In an adequately defensive manner. In the middle of the maternal monologue, he raised his hand In warning. "Hush!" he said. "I'm shame as shame' can be of ou that you don't know what a little boy Is made for. He Is not mado for these hard speakings!" speak-ings!" "Perhaps not," said his mother, cooling cool-ing down. "What is he made for?" "Made for lovlngs nnd for things that are soft and qulot," he said. Them, woolngly: "Now let's be happy." Pursuing this thought, he pattered out to tho garden and soon camo back with a pansy, which he presented to his mother, with tho explanation: "That's the only most happy flower In tho back yard." "How do ou know it is happy?" was her query. , "I tell by the pleasant little smile on It," he said, gently smoothing out the laughing flower-face. "Poor other flowers that huven't any smile!" Harper's Har-per's Bazar. |