The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-27

! little pulled with the sleep. He puck
ers his lips, which are all moist, and
now and then he makes a funny little
gurgling sound. Oh, the love, 1 have a
mad desire TO eat him with kisses.
No, I must not wake him. If one
troubles his fast sleep, Monsieur Baby
absolutely refuses to so to sleep again
before the hour of his second slumber,
that is to say. near l O'Clock in the
morning. For he sleeps in sections,
with an interval of nearly three-quar-
tiers of an hour, during which he sings,
talks, losses about, drinks his milk,
with a little orange flower water in it
in fact, he is parsonage of very regu-
lar habits.
He Will be 10 months cid the 4th of
next June. He is very strong, and
above all very large: his nurse says
that every one thinks him much Older
than he is, when she has him in the
Tuileries. But perhaps she said that
to please me. / should like to have
Rene the largest, strongest, handsom
est, most intelligent baby in the world.
Maternity, its pride and egotism, may
be permitted. it seems to me. Never
theless, / do not believe l am blind to
my little sons deficiencies. If he prom
ises to be a handsome fellow, nothing
at present indicates that he is eXcep-
tionally intelligent. He does not really
talk. The little Julia Virmonday, who
is only two months older, talks flu
entity. But the broken language of Rene
is so delicioust
He says mamma and game" and
with these two words he obtains every
thing that he wishes. He points to his
fathers portrait under the name of
'tata poquet." l make him say his lit
tie prayer every evening. after he is in
bed, a simple little prayer:
My good Jesus, / give you my heart
Make me grow up to serve you, and
give health to papa, mamma, grand
mamma and nurse. So may it be-"
Said by Monsieur Baby it becomes
little like this:
Good Zesus-div tart, sur VOC, div
helf to tata, mamma, game. nurse, SO
so"
But if he swallows several words, he
makes up for them in his signs of the
cross. He makes at least a dozen be
fore and as many afterwards. The dear!
he has been much better the last day
or two. Nevertheless the doctor comes
to see him every morning, but 1 was
not able today TO obtain from him de-
cided affirmation, the comforting
nothing to fear"-that l tried for.
When l think how really fragile is this
little being l adore, how a fever could
take him from me in few hours, l feel
at the end of my reason. fairly crazy
with anxiety. I jump up and run to
the sweet, and am only treasured when
see how evenly and regularly the
sheet raises and lowers, and how his
little hands move about, and near his
mouth murmur the language of his
slumbers.
And while l am by my son. Raoul
may be soliciting a rendezvous with /
Nine. DelaVeauX, or enjoying a tete a /
tete with Mile de Giverny. For l have /
or o. RI ha1 oil
tended fiirtations stop in the haif-in- /
nocence. Ny personal experience, and !
above all, Mammals instructions, have !
taken away my former credulity. |
When your husband descends /
to flirting, be assured there /
is between flirting and crimi- .
nality, only the distance of a pos
sibility and opportunity" she says.
Flirt. frightful word When l hear il
spoken near me, now, 1 have a chill of !
horror as of a word the most vile.
To occupy these hours by baby's pill
lew, 1 went into Raoul's smoking room,
his den,' where he received his /
friends, and where l rarely go 1 wanted
some papers to read. 1 have a pile by
me, Figaro, Gil Bias, Gaulois, Libre
Parole and others. Raoul. who is the
most disOrderly of husbands-the most
confiding, also, l must say-had tran
gully left his bunch of keys in the
lock of his desk, the bunch with the
hanging chain. Was 1 tempted? No,
really, 1 do not think / was.
Rather | had the fear of being tempt
ed. So l saved myself by going back
into my room, with clean hands. L
rang for Joseph, my husbands valet
de chambre, who has served ever since
he (RaouD was d lad, and who is de-
voted to him: so devoted that I feel
he is my enemy. l sent him to find
me the pI<ers. A moment after he
brought them, and l am very sure he
put the keys away.
| do not read the journals very often.
The articles in the serious ones are
stupid and weary me; the others, which
publish articles that amuse our hus-
bands and brothers, are full of things
that l do not understand, and some
things that l understand all too well,
and which make me fairly i'll to read,
as It does to see a wound or deform-
tv.
This journal, now. Raoul says, is the
familiar reading of sports" roues and
women of i'll repute-let US see the eff
lect on reputable woman, although
he wife of a no, it hurts me to give
hat name to him! These head lines:
The Story of a Man Who Killed His
Dog After the Death of His Wife" 1
said, truly. that l don't understand.
Curious thing for him to do,
Nm, Il was informed that yester-
lay in the Bots, one noticed Nile. Des-
:ioZiers, Marguerite de BOurgogne, Lu-
iovique Surville," etc, etc, d dozen
ines or more. Who would be interested
n that? Friends of the young girls,
they must be very numerous, !
non dieu! that one takes so much
rouble to please them
Politics. ! do not care for that
sank clerk absoonded. "a jealous wom- :
IN fired three Shots from revolver at
Ter husband" Poor woman, In low !
ife, as in high, it is we, alas, who al
Ways have TO suffer, are forsa.en, and :
vretched But how could one kill one
hey loved?
Theatrical announcements-per
this is amusing. Plenty of little
ramas and comedies in these short 7
paragraphs.
Some are in cipher: 1 cannot read
hose.
"Fus. Thanks. letters, will write.
Y peas. tro." ,
Pens. tro"-wonder what that !
means? !
N E. Sad at separation-Try :
gain"
Suddenly I was cold. 1t seemed to !,
ne ali the blood in my heart was going ;
ut. The journal slipped from my lap. !
sat without strength, almost without .
a long moment, my eyes J
losed, and head resting on the back .
f my easy chair. Z
When l came to myself, but still .
Teak and frightened, picked up the !
aper. my eyes were riveJed to the /
nes which, on first reading, had so a
vercome me. This is what / read: ,.
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