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Show PLAYED WITH POSTAGE STAMP. Wide-Awake Youngster Kept Quiet While Father Worked. "I'vo round a new use for in) post ngo stamps," said a pnler-fnmlllns Hip other tiny "I ns left nt liottio to tnko care of our ten months old hoy while my wlfo was out bnrKnln hunt-ItiK hunt-ItiK It wns my plan to put the little fellow to sleep, then net at the pllo of unanswered letters on my desk. My plans miscanled for awhile. The lit tie cnap persisted In staylnc awake nnd clamoring for in attention, t de-vled de-vled many forms of amusement for lilm, but none lasted lonR enoush for mo to set really to woik. "In looking about for soiuetltltiK which should lusuro me more than n lireathlnK spell I caught sight of a bright, new two-cent postage stamp. I thought of the llttlo fellow's loe for color took the stamp nnd pasled It securely on the palm of his hand It wns a gram! success. He played with thnt nowlj decorated hand for nn hour then lellef came. In the leturn of IiIf mother " |