The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-14

shape Of rod and line. without waiting
he will buy IL the design is something
new. Hc falls prey to all bait In the
10 be caught on the hook attachment.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grannis, who purines
New York in winter says: 1T wouin
be hard 10 tell how / busy myself IN
summer. but / love babies. James. bring
up the baby
A man servant steps down into the
basement and returns with the blackest
specimen OF infanthood ever seen. rms
baby Is named Christian League Noou-
year" says Mrs. Grannis. Il adopten
her when she was nine days old, anu
her mother was nearly dead. They are
both well now and live in my basement.
Christian League viii be my playmate
all summer. She is nine months old ana
very bright. DO l collect babies? on.
dear, Nor
But I'll tell you a story. One night
AZ PRAYER meeting we heard a snoring
under the seat and / could spy pair OF
legs in the dusk. II was woman =
meeting. so l stopped prayers and pull
ed out the man 1t was just a wretched
little boy. six years old, with no home.
| took him home and adopted him. That
summer knit stocking a day for him,
long stockings OF the feminine persua-
sion, TO 20 over his knees. and htted
him out fine One day / got hold of MS
father-a nasty drunken man-and put
him up In my spare room TO sober NJ.
Then / got him job. That was nine
wears ago. and he Is working at II yet.
The bow has grown UP, and Is a credit
TO everybody"
one baby q summer Is Mrs. Grannis' s
philanthropic record
DAVID i, Hills CHICKENS.
Senator David 3. Hi has choiceas-
sortment of game cocks at Fritzviiia,
mis- country place. and every summer he
finds new fighters for his pen. He owns
as many valuable chickens as any incu-
bator farm and carries on an interest
ing hatchery second only in interest 10
the new fowls he is always adding 1t
cannot be sworn to that he brings a
new gamecocx home with him in a bas-
ket every time he takes a vacation Jaunt.
but he has been known 10 include chick
ems in mis- return baggage.
Frederick r. Coudcrt gathers himself
together I'm the great armchair that Is
a thousand times too big for him. and
says. "You want to know how | amuse
myself in vacation time when ] do not
20 away? Wen. for one thing, / collect
books-frst editions. rare books OF all
Xmas. ] have some that are Older thdn
New York and others that would run a
race with oxford I'm antiquity. l love
each one Of them, and like an old gray
cat with just ono kitten left, / am con-
tented If / have just one Of my old books
with me. l like 10 look at IL and fondle
It. When I see a new one / am wild 10
have II. / want that book and ] buy
It. Much Of my summer is passed look
irg for these curics."
w. d. Howells's collection IS decidedly
a Snoopy" one. He collects ideas which
he i0ts down. All summer he goes
around writing down things which he
afterwards puts in his stories He is
like Thomas Bailey Aldrich. who said to
a friend: Don't ask me TO write you n
letter right after / have returned from
my vacation. because l should put some
of my ideas into it. and they are worth
NIL oy to me. Ilowells collects SMILES,
metaphors. phrases. and descriptions by
the note-bookful And I'm the fall comes
an avalanche Of verse and prose.
II is said that the most expensive col
lection pastlmc Is INDUCED I'm by Mrs.
John W. Mackay. who buys marquise
rings Of antiquity. But fads are for the
most part inexpensive and are rcmard-
able only for the fact that they serve
TO amuse some very great people who
would otherwise grow tired of counting
their fingers through the long summer
vacation days. 6. S. RUSSELL.