Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-09
Mr.. BLAiNE'S GRANDCHILDREN.
Jolly Little Fellows Who Are Dear t.
His Heart

His Heart
Happy little Mccormack Blaine seems t.
have been born under fortunate planet
He is jolly, rollicking year-old baby who
enjoys life to the utmost, says the New
York Sun. He passed greater part of the
summer in a pretty willow carriage among
the resinous pines on the hills of Mount
Desert. There he kicked up his fat legs
crowed, laughed and grew fatter and more
healthy each day.
His mamma, who was pretty Anita Nc
Cormick of Chicago, is charming mamma,
SO pretty and bright and entertaining; and
his father is handsome and agreeable, and
the baby is the light of their home. lie is
handsome child, large and well formed,
with his fathers big brown eyes and
his mothers sweet, expressive mouth.
The secretary, his grandfather, is
very fond of the little fel-
low, but he prefers to go where he is
when be wants to see him, rather than 10
have him in the same house. For children s
little troubles and naughtiness are annoy
ing to Mr.. Blaine.
The two little Coppinger boys, Blaine
and Connor, live with Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine,
for their mother died two years ago, and
their father is away off in South America.
They are fne-looking, bright lads, eight
and ten years old, and they fill the Blaine
mansion with more life and noise than the
really tuJOSS. luOuSu ne Is very
lenient with them and often spends an hour
or more with them. Each lad has a nurse
who exercises strict care over him. and
who makes il a special point not to allow
him to disturb his grandfather.
Outside the walls of Stanwood. Bar Har Dor,
where the Blaine family spend six months
of the year, they are allowed
through the woods, chase SPUR
rels, hunt BIRDS nets and have jolly times.
They love dearly to snatch ride with the
drivers who bring callers to see Mr.. Blaine.
Occasionally good-natured driver will
give them a turn around the grounds, and
they are delighted. At times they will sit
in the carriage aud pretend they are driv-
ing. Sometimes their Uncle Jimmy or one
of their aunts will take them out in the old
fashioned phaeton, which is the family
turnout.
Like all other boys, both are fond of
stories, but young Blaine Copoinger has an
inherited dislike to newspaper stories.
When his nurse begins to relate a marvel
Gus tale, he inquiries before he lets his at
tention become wholly engaged if she read
it from q newspaper. If she did, 1t has no
further charm for him, no matter how
thrilling it may be,
Mr.. Coppinger, the boys father, has
cousin who is talented portrait artist
His home is in Ireland. but he has been
travelling in this country, and has made the
acquaintance of his bright little cousins.
When they return to Washington he will
paint their portraits.
Another little grandson, and one who is
just now an object of deep interest to every
one, is little James c.. Blaine, third. He is
living with his mother in Sioux City, far
out West. He is handsome little fellow
with merry disposition, golden hair and
deep blue eyes, like his mother, but feat
ures and expression decidedly like his
Grandfather Blaine. For this reason, and
because he bears his grandfather's name,
brought up in the Blaine household, but it
seems pathetic to think of taking a three
year-old baby away from his mother, who
loves him probably more than any one else
inothe world