The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-19

ought to be proud for having produced such
a baby as, little Carlisle. He is healthy
and vigorous. has cheeks as rosy as though
he came from Ireland. His eyes are as
blue as the skies of Greece and his silky
curls are as yellow as the gold of Ophir.
He is loving little fellow and is not
spoiled He rules the household and the |
Senator is his slave.
SENATOR DoLPH'S BABY.
Another Senatorial baby belongs to the
Dolph family. The Senator has four boys |
and the youngest, who is named Harry Vii
lard, is the brightest of the lot. He is, his
parents sometimes fear, too bright for ms
age and since he has gone to school he has
lost flesh from over-study. He stands at
the head of his class and spends more time
on books than play. His bright sayings |
are among the traditions of the Dolph fam
lily, and his father holds MIN up as one OF |
the best products of the state of Oregon. !
One day when he was scarcely old enough |
to walk, much less talk, his mother left him /
sitting on the front doorstep while she
went out for stroll remarking that ''she
was going to take a little stroll" She had
not gone far before she heard the patter of
small footsteps behind her and as she turned
little Harry caught her hand and said, |
Mama, can't 1 take little draught too!''
Harry has kitten which glories in the
name of Baby Mckee. This kitten is the
Unfortunate possessor of a tail which per-
sists in sucking straight up In the air with
out regard to the circumstances surround
ing it. This weakness troubles the cat and
amuses Harry. He has cut hole in the
lower panel of his chamber door IN order
that the cat may get through. This hole is
just large enough for the cat without the
tail which persists in trying to enter
with its caudal appendage in the air. OF
course this is an impossibility and Harry
grows very indignant at the cats not learn
ing that boat must lower its mast when
going under bridge The other day the
cat had its usual trouble with it's tail when
Harry exclaimed, 'Baby Mckee, l don't
think you have as much sense now as when
you were BORN
KOREAN BABY COMING.
Some of the most interesting babies That
have ever come to Washington have been
born within the legations. The Chinese
ministers have in several cases had child
rem during their administrations and the
Acknowledged cream colored little young
sters have been ushered into American life
with all the ceremonies which prevail in
their own country Minister Kuki had a
charming little baby while he represented
Japan in this country and L am now able to
whisper to you the fact that we are about
to have the first Korean baby ever born
q
dom. Elaborate preparations are in pro-
gress at the embassy for his coming aud he
may be here before this letter is published.
These preparations are much the same as
those in our own homes on such an eX
pected occasion, and this baby will be more
of an American baby than a Korean one.
Dainty garments of snowy linen and deli
cate cambria with soft fiannels and warm
worsted have been beautifully made and
are carefully laid away ready for use. The
swaGdling clothes of fine silk which are
used for babies of high degree in Korea will
not be put on this little one. 1t will not be
hung up in a hood or tied to the mothers
back as is done In the far east, but it will
take its first lessons in life in a Christian
way. Mrs. Ye Cha Yum, as well as the
wife of the present minister who sailed re-
Gently for home belongs TO the most pro
gressive OF the women of her land. She
has asserted her independence since she
came here and instead of being shut up in
| the back of the house as her sisters are at
! home, she has made calls, gone to recep-
tions and has even received her friends at
the legation building. Her husband is now
in charge of the legation. He acts as min
lister during the absence of the Hon. Mr..
! We Wang Yong and the madame is the
mistress of the house. She will undoubt-
| edly receive many calls as soon as she is
able to be about after her little child makes
its appearance, and it may be the young
person after an education here will go back
as a reformer in the land of his forefathers.
GLAD SHE WAS ALIVE.
One of the funniest children stories
| have heard for year is a description of an
incident which occurred in the family OF
one of our most pious statesmen the other
day. l would not say that the head of the
family was Postmaster General Wanna
/ oalr lint ha lu of 10
religious tendencies. He believes that his
children should take part in all the relig-
ious observances of the family, and he tries
to adapt these observances TO the under
standing of the youngest of them. He leads
his family worship in prayers made up of
words Of one syllable and composes them
as though they came from the minds of the
children themselves. Last week while
thanking the Lord for the good he had done
for the little ones of his family, he grew
eloquent over the benefits they had re-
ceived. He thanked Him for the old horse
Barney which gave them such delightful
country riding. He thanked Him for their
! home and good dinners and he poured out
his soul in thanks to God for the toys which
they had. 1t was at this time that his little
| four-year-old daughter could contain her
self no longer, she broke into the prayer
with a sigh and then clapping her hands
estatically, "Oh, God, don't you wish you
was us!n
COLONEL MUssEY's NEW BOOTS.
Colonel Fred Mussey is now the manag-
ing editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga.
zette, and though he has never been one of
the babies of the capital, there is story of
his babyhood told here which will bear
repetition. 1t was when he was boy of
five, in one of the backwoods villages of
Vermont that he got his first new boots.
They were red-topped and copper toed, and
when Freddy first tried them on he was
the proudest boy in the whole Green Noun
tain state. He strutted up and down the
street in front of the house, and stamped
the wide hall of the double old house in
which his father lived, making as much
noise as though his feet were soled with
lead AS be did this his elder brother who
knew that the event, so momentous to Fred,
was to come off that morning, came into
the hail. He did not look at Fred's boots,
but. shifting loudly with his nostrils dilated
as he turned his head this way and that
said, in an excited tone: "What's this ]
smell? / smell new leather" and then look
ing all about the floor he at last fixed his
eyes on Fred's feet and concluded, "Why
it's little Fred's new boots" And with
this Fred swelled more than ever until be
looked, fat little boy that he was, like the
frog in Aesops fables that tried to blow
itself up as big as bull. And so the early
morning went off Before eight O'Clock
everyone in the village knew of Fred's new
boots, and he persuaded his mother to
let him go with his elder brother to the
country school and wear them. The two
got there a little late and Fred, as soon as
he entered the school-room, in order to
call attention to his greatness, concluded to
initiate his brother and in shrill piping
tones, as he shifted his nose in the air, he
cried out: whats this l smell! / smell
new leather: Why" and here he lifted one
leg so that half the school could see his
foot, ''It must be my new boots.'' 1t is