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Show PLAYED WITH POSTAGE STAMP. Wide-Awake Youngster Kept Quiet While Father Worked. "I've found a new use for my post age stamps." snld a paterfamilias tho other day "l was left nt homo to take caro of our ten-months old boy while my wife was out bargain hunting hunt-ing It wns in) plan to put the little fellow to sleep, then get nt the pile of unanswered letteis on my desk My plans miscarried for nwhtle Tlio lit tie chap persisted In slnlng awake and clamoring for no attention 1 de vlted many forms of amusement for him. but none lusted long enough for mo to get reall) to work "In looking about for something j which should Insure me more than a breathing spell I caught sight of a bright row two cent postage Btatnp, I thought of the llttlo fellow's love for color took tho stamp and pasted It securoJy on the palm of his hand It wns n grand success. He played with that newly derornled hand tor an hour I then relief came In the leturn or hlf I mother " |