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Show Nature Beauty, There is a lady In Washington, tho wife of a prominent scientist In tho employ of the government, who has always al-ways been told by her husband tnat there Is nothing unlovely In nature, and wno, In turn, has carefully endeavored endeav-ored to Inculcate the namo Idea In her children. One day tho youngest, Mildred, aged six, came Into her mother's presence, saying: "Mother, won't you havo tho maid brtuh down that horrid cob-web In m, room?" "Yes, dear," replied tho mother, "but don't call it 'horrid.' It's only because it's In the wrong place. In Itself, It's beautiful." "I don't soe how any ono could think a cobwob beautiful," responded tho llttlo girl, "excopt, perhaps," sho added, doubtfully, "the cobs." Illustrated Illus-trated Sunday Magazine |