New-York tribune., 1875-09-14

his wish that tho play should 20 on. Already I've
| worn ont several pairs of trousers aud am LOOKING
round for new properties false nose and Wig Tor
| instance.
| have spoken of My Son rs The Old Man OF tho
| Sea- but this was fguratively At hrst coming
though with wcazened face and wrinkled ways, he
really did seem to be but little old man. When he
scowled at You the suggestion striking. AS Tor
interest in things around him. he had none. He had
not the air of one TO whom the world was new, but
! rather of one to whom it tcdiously old, ana
neither amusing nor instructive. Even Mt the patent
silver door-knobs that wouldn't move when you
| turned them, ard at the bright bell-pulis
that wouldn't ring when you pulled them'
| he looked rs though he had seen modern
improvements before. If you spoke to him it at
traced his attention not at all; just an Indifferent
! gaze he gavo YOU and turned YEARLY away ''S
! though occupied with matters OF greater moment
A joke was worse than thrown away on INN. lhousii
oyerv ore else might laugh he but looked up at the
| ceiling and yawned rs who Should say, iHoSo
Jokes may do very we'll for you down here bnt up
there where | come from they have much better
onosv Yet all the while it plain that he was
| frst-class humorst. At times he would lie Tor an
hour smiling away within himself in the funniest
| fashion; catch him at it. and he became grave at
once Ii was as though he thought that that which
amused him was too far beyond our comprehension
for hun to attempt to explain it to us. and he did
not wish to be thought frivolous he checked his
smile.
The little sense Of moral obligation that baby
has is a marvel to me. That he has any duti"s IN
life never occurs to him. In the present only he
lives, with an idea evidently that nothing is ex-
pccted of him but to grow. Where his dinner comes
from matters not to him so long as he gets it.
Though il NAV be that the milk wherein he rioteth
beongeth Of right to another baby, the ethical cues
tion which at once arseth trOUblch him not. He il
reckless of results. Nor am certain that he is not
profane When he nuttcrS to himself III an un-
known tongue, on being forbidden something for
which he has longing, how DO we know that he IS
! not swearing! The harangucs to which Jonathan
Edwards occasionally treats ne are excessively
funny. He becomes animated and his gesticulail"h
il rapid and expressive. If We mad another baby
here don't you think he'd know what this BABY IL
sayingl" asked little hal ono day, while We were '-
ening to one OF this infant orators fervid eAhotta-
| tons
Perhaps YOU wonder how we came to call him
Jonathan Edwards. Truth to tell, hardly know
myself. But the name somehow seemed to iit liil.
His face had gravity seldom found in so young.
He had judicial air. 100, though in his own niit
| passing on monentOus theological Gues;ionS Pleas
ant his EXPRESSION was, but to some cXtent severe
! And this same air OF dignity which characterized
his infancy ne still preserves at his ripe age of seven
! months. Approach him with a laugh ard he hy 10
means responds at once in kind. No, 10, hdee'i.
! First he looks you steadily in the eye and ap-
parently considers whether o. net there Is
anything to laugh at-wilether this is simply
a storeotyped and unmceliug smile which
Won bring to him, a sort of sheet iron smile
which you keep regularly Oh hand for al babies, or
whether it is good square SMILE housing deeper
sicrifcance If the scrutiny be Satisfactory, he gVts
a ple easant lco and an approving nod, perhaps add
| ing few remarks intended to be reasSdring ana
complimentary but if not, he turns his heed away
and takes no further notice OF you Lac Is too blicI
! he thinks to throw much of II away on those Who
smile because they can think OF nothing else TO do.
! and ycung though he is, lie has no tmc to waste.
have already limited that he is wagEishy inclined.
| Often when Won hold ont vOur arms to him be viii
extend his in return, but approach to take him and
he turns Lis heat cunningy away, laying ii over bis
nurses shoulder with quiet chuclilc, as though 20
| saw " Not for Jonathan"
! do not know that ours is pretty baby. Bnt no
oe has vet had the tercrity to say, i'll the presence
of ei her mother fater, thar he is not Ii IS GER
tain that he has lovely blnc eye and delicate coni-
| pexion. and these 20 a great way you Know IN de-
teln;niDg good looks His hair what there is of H. is
Of nice color and shows tendency to ctri, bu, We
take no special credit 20 ourselves that head -
vet. and when photographed we clap lace wig or
! him. For one 50 young. he is certainly very bald.
As for teeth they Ike his troubles, yet 10 come.
| His f..lye is fac. And Ci late his backbone las
s!iioned up 30 tGt he can sit on the ioor without
every inmate luTchng forward on his nose. Iin'
tum3ng over was great greI to hIh'
! and I thCnoht of loadng him heavily below
! the waist like the toy boys yon buy
| at Stores go that he'd al once regain upright pc
siton without trouble to himself or others. If his
nose is little fat nOT, il is because OF these t.
pelted tumble brt there IS 10 question that III the
fullness Of Iimo lie viii come to have fine Roman
! beak like his mothers. Aud ore thing Is certain.
| Whether handsome nOt he ia sool, and IN this
latter respect the resemblance So often traced be-
/ tween Jonathan Edwards and his fat her mainly hes.
JOIN PAUL
PS.-That Won may see that what say of Jona-
than Edw rtls has foundation IN tru;'!hat my
per-sketcb is by no means fancy one-l incosc hiS
photograph. II may not be easy 10 reproduce it in
/ The TRIBUNE but perhaps you can print diagram
of him in supplement-. l have pictures to spare,
for when there's nothing else to do, his mother sends
| him to be photographed. This picture is by Horace
Finley of Canandagua, for whom good steady bust
ness if not a fortune is waiting in New-ICrk when
ever he sets up his there and doyoos himself
10 taking pictures OF children H. this specially he
! has no equal anywhere. The mothers of Naples of
! Penn YAM of Bethel Fork, Five Corner If Cooks
! Point: of the whole country round iii fact hock to
| Canandaigua to have their babies taken. Yea, they
even come from Whales Back, Bare Hill, and file
Inlet M Finley should transfer bis Speciality -
point where the field is larger and babies are more
numerous. Cooks Point wont do-why not New
! York;
TIE CUIBORD CASE