Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-15
TWO BABIES NOW
ROMP IN ROOMS
OF WHITE HOUSE
JOSEPHINE and VIRGINIA
President Grand Uncle To
Both Children

Josephine wilson Cothran and small
Virginia Peyton Howe are just now
in a neck-and-neck race for the CHIEF
place in the affections of their grand
uncle, President Woodrow Wilson,
whom they are visiting at the white
house.
The entire family circle is watching
the unconscious rivalry with much de.
light and satisfaction, the Virginia
Howe parsonage, a two-year-old, with
golden curls, merry blue eyes and
pronounced" disposition, having con-
stituted herself bodyguard for her
younger cousin.
Baby Josephine is sixteen months
old. She has twelve small teeth, i
sunshiny disposition, great affabiilty,
infinite friendliness and a limited vo-
cabulary. Her maternal grandmother.
Mrs. George Howe, sister to the presi-
dent, she calls ''Nanna." Her pretty
twenty-year-old mother, Mrs Perrin
Cothran, she calls Mama" Her
indulgent nurse, Mamie Smith, ii
colored nanny" of amiability unsur-
passed, she calls ''Ninn-ee," and seems
rather mixed up that grandma's name
and Nurse Nannie's names hould sound
so much alike
Incidentally, Nurse Mamie, who is
prouder of the baby than she is of Sec
ing it "own" the white house, occupied
similar position in the household of
Mrs. Howe, when Mrs. Cothran and her
two older brothers, James and George,
were in the growing-up stage. When
Mrs. Cothran got beyond the needs OF
Mamie, Mamie just kept her eyes on
affairs and was on hand to serve baby
Josephine as she had served her
mother before her, and was busy on
the job almost before Josephine had
given more than half a dozen blinks
of her bright blue eyes.
A Polite Young Person.
To return to baby Josephine, she is
terribly polite young person and re-
marks "Ta-ta" very engagingly when
anybody gives her anything she likes.
Here her present collections of words
ends.
When she wants to ego further" she
simply gurgles and COOS, the while
her blue eyes with the coal black
| fringes twinkle mischievously and a
| fine and free-playing set of dimples
go chasing about the corners of her
mouth and over her chubby cheeks.
When she waves her arms frantically
to point a moral and adorn some Of
her tales without words she displays
another set of dimples lurking about
her elbows. She has sunshiny hair TO
match her disposition and the fine,
silky, light hair is as straight as a
string, 1t fringes softly about her high
white forehead, which is marked just
above the eyes by very fetchingly out
lined eyebrows.
Baby Josephine's friends could not
cell her beautiful baby. Even Nurse
Mamie never gets beyond honey
bunch,' but even the casual observer
must discover that Baby Josephine is a
most companionable, jolly, alert young
parsonage with her eyes wide open TO
the possibilities of having a fine old
time in the white house She's tickled
| lCollSn When uncle WooufoW APP
ears and she squirms like an eel to
get away from Unfolding arms when
the president hoves in sight. She's
pretty solid on her pins and when she
starts to go she is like partridge.
The president reciprocates her affec-
ticn If anybody would behold the rath-
er stern, serious face of the new presi-
dent of the United States break up in
to most contagious smiles or watch the
eyes take on the tenderest sort of light
he should see Baby Cothran use her
Il rSuaSiOnS on him Her net trick