New-York tribune., 1909-06-06
The American Baby Abroad
CoraEaea from GEe I

Cortraez
thousand md one nights, could have told
-ra-- tales She had been taken from her
black guardians when She was but a rolypoly,
I-elacll-S three yeaT-old plCCanInny Since
ihat tine She had never had any assoCIa-
Il n with her own race Yet her brain was
breeding place from which Jrooped out al
the ba-hartc supernaturalisrn. the witch and
ghost tales. OF her people Did she obtain
then by some subtle law u inheritance, OF did
she i1st 6-aw them direct from the invisible
world g thought
However they came. Roxle's ghost tales
were alwavs sufficiently varied from their mod
IS % reflect her own keen personality. And
they were uncannv and grUesorne enough 10
have -nz- effect upon the children that RoNle
loved They grew big eyed and crowded close
about fe- n alright, vet hung upon her every
word a-E gesture IN fearful fascination Into
ms word = e-lchant1nenr where RoxIe Ike the
Pied Plre-. led The children She, like that
leqenda-v eha-rner. remained with them when
the ulEc gates changed TO she believed III
he- oT- ghosts
DONIE-S love far the r1enlhers of the Lazy
~ re-ee family never weakened, however
widely she might be separated from them And
now She aid Ms Lawrence spent many hours
II anz-.-- ..----1ltation about Elizabeth Ms
Lawre-.e had lived such a tranquil life IN the
old Colonial a.uestead, where every afternoon,
as she sal "a he- pillaTed veranda, her eyes
rested On the same peaceful but -ue-Iably beau
titul sweep u wheat and corn fields or rolling
meadow that El-zabeth.s : wancer1Ilgs IN Tor
elgl lands seemed fraught with peril
Nov Z I was les ovah thah with Miss
'Lizahe-- v-- u8l1idu't need . worry ovah
huh Ms 'a1rie' said RoXle one day
Rlz- .a R0Xe. YOU can 60 70 Elizabeth
Jack can --.-e You with INN when ne goes back.
Why have we never thought Of that before,
AND -r-z T was that when the American
BABY sailed his fairy bark INTO the v ORD
I1r-, E-zl- was the first one 70 welcome MN -
land. ON 1e- broad bosom he first dropped Oh
10 sl--15e- % the sound II that sweetest ol
lullzh-es -Roxie's quavers and trIlls and minor
chords -.-l with mystic melody.
Oh, e O. sleep nay darlIn Now close dem
Al G-ss1a lv de silinin' angels an de blessed
Oh. DIN uv de blood red roses, an de birds
on snowy wing
Oh dream uv De fallln wattahsr an de never
end-- sITIng
Tle E--le foreign born baby soon supplanted
Il Rl9.es wall the last home keeping infant
FFs history seemed 10 her 50 romantic ms sur
-yunLr-lgs so extraordinary. that TINS roster
child took a hold on her vivid African magma
ton that no one II her home born babes could
rival The talk of Kings and Queens that she
heard N London thrilled her lover 4 pOmp and
authority as she was. ike all Of her race. IN
some zt77,s WAY her little charges birth IN the
land q monarchy gave him for her touch OF
lrape-lallsn -,
He IS the mos aristocraticai Of all my chil-
lur she would say loves al my chl!lun q
but 60 Sc I ies' materially am bouII' 70 put TINS
Tn fefo' all de res an leave hl1l al my prop "
cause YOU know he's Toy lty
ELIZABETH had never been 50 deeply happy
L. III beT life Whatever romance may
tech or poetry may sing. II IS not love $ young
dream nor wedding bells, nor honeymoon days
that bring 70 q woman her Joys crown OF JOYS.
nat reveal 70 her " the lnnermOst heart OF
hiss but those first days of first motherhood
with Their guarded quletude and sweet rehei
IRON care, and great thanhulness TO one VINO
E-7ows how 20 give good and perfect glits-
She did not wish 20 talk or 20 see people
She was too delciously content lying IN the
hyshed rooms where roses and lines and Vlolets'
sent by friends nodded their bright congTatu-
lariors t. her where the trained nurse ana
Roxie walked on tIptOes and spoke under thelT
treaths for fear Of disturbing the slumDeTs oi
o7e precious mite Of babe Baby long hours
r eleer, that Vyas the tame that Elizabeth spent