Evening star., 1909-06-13
She Discouraged All Other Admirers
and Devoted Herself to the Baby.

they heightened. The bloom of the made his
cheeks tempting garden of kisses His first hair
coarse and straight hastily dropped mortifica-
tion when crop of lustrous black curls began to
caress his symmetricaly rounded head
Babys growth IN wisdom was as marvellous as his
transformation in appearance From the days when
he could neither keep his altogether straight
say unto anyone OF his limbs Go herel or Go
there! he had advanced to the period when he could
derive both instruction and amusement from playing
with the ten little fingers radlatng from his dlmpled
palms.
Only the lapse OF month, and Baby volumes
further He could now express himself to himself
and to spirits OF the air attuned to such musical
tongues in cooing 4Eolian ethereal, entranc-
ing. that Elizabeth hung over him in alteration An
other fight of days and Baby was coquetting with
his toes. What embryonic notions of the properties
of matter he may have formulated as he pnched or
bit these tiny members, what rudimentary mathe-
MATES he may have evolved he counted them, it
not for the unenlightened to decry.
A ND April drew aside winters black veil Of
fog from the window of Heaven and let God S
glorious sunlight stream through This sudden daz-
zling irradiance of London spring all for the
American Baby Elizabeth basked in the light, shut
ting out the memory of the black foggy winter with
that of the days when Baby was not.
Her cup of happiness was SO full that it fairly ran
over when in June Mary Marshall came across from
Italy Mary had dallied in Europe SO long travelling
about with friends settling down in Paris paint
ing, that her relatives had refused prolong her
leave of absence further She had come to Lon
don to spend the summer with Elizabeth and sail for
home with her IN September. Mary brought gifts
and offerings for the Babv,-pink coras for pinker
gums to press upon fancful foreign toys, and grace
full ornaments.
And when she had all the wisdom of this
Baby Solomon.-his knowledge of his fingers and his
understanding of his toes his skill in manipulating
milk bottle his judgment in noting the dual flight of
the hours, his subtlety in the attainment of his
wants. his grace scattering JOY and love about him,
she exclaimed:
l really could not quite believe all YOU wrote me-
Elizabeth about the wonderful wonderfulness of this
Baby; but now that have seen him. can say that
he is lovelier, brighter, more fascinating, than l
dreamed any Baby could be. You ought to be a
happy girl to own him. >
If Mary fell in love with the American Baby, that
discerning infant did not fail to reciprocate the
pleasant sentiment. He knew, in his mysterious
way of knowing things that grown-ups thought he
knew nothing about, that scores of men had longed
vanly for the chance of reciprocating such emo
ton with this SLIM merry and beautiful young
woman; for Miss Marshall was known in Kentucky
as a Southern beauty" which title woman does
not win in Dixie for cold regularity of feature
perfection of tint If she should be fair as we'll as
picturesque and brightly clever, then she has her
pathway strewn with wherever she goes IN the
South for she bears by royal right that lands high
est title of beauty.
All this and more Mary Marshall. Her dark
hair grew in charming outlines, and fell about her
brow and neck in loose tendrllv locks; long ashed
gray blue eyes spoke her thoughts even more ex-