Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

but this one I can't recognize How
old would you think she is. Binnie?"
Mr.. Binnie Morris said that he didn't
know, had nothing to measure by. II
should think, though" he ventured,
she's about two weeks long"
How expert!" said Ann, though Mr..
Morris, as was usual with him when
she spoke, was not listening to her at
all but was merely thinking about her.
"Binnie," she said, st suggest you
nit here by the baSSinet all night and
watch her. The rest of us need Sleep"
Cute little dickens, isn't she," said
Binnie.
She was about 10 weeks old, Ann
thought, and she was clad in sports
costume Of two pieces, the outer being
made of hoursack, very chic, Ann said,
since it had been boiled until the let
tiers didn't show.
They laid her in the blue baSsinet-
Ann, and Mr.. Binnie Morris, who had
a class in modelling and was staying at
Cinnamon Hill while his people were
IN Europe. Ann lived at the house,
which was the only home she had. The
baby had arrived with no address, no
tag, and no message. She was abSurdly
little, with a magnificent head, they
thought, vast blue eyes, Binnie said and
exquisite hands, they agreed.
Lets now return Mrs. Maltrevor's
bassinet," Binnie suggested, contents
and all, fob. And we'll say, Look
what!' on the card. oh, Morley
Hello" said Morley, going home
from his carpentry class.
Got a baby in the bassinet."
That's what it's for, isn't It," said
my room. I've got some stain drying.
Morley went.
"Fatherly Sort" said Binnie.
Not like you" said Ann, preparing
TO watch all night"
She locked her desk, and the baby, as
Il discerning some f1nality, set up
high, smothered squeak.
''Kittenish KID" said Binnie. Say,
my word, you don't leave mel"
We'll" said Ann, carry the baSsinet
up to my room. don't know about a
baby, but I'm game till morning. If
she howls in the night, the whole house
will come to ask for her history"
Binnie took the baby In his arms and
followed Ann up to her third-hoor
room. He set the bassinet on the floor
then looked reverently round on the
painted furniture, the rag rug and the
gas-plate.
Ann" he said, "you ought not to be
living In place like this. Marry me
and let's move into our house, where
its COOL"
GO down In the nursery" she said.
Pand from the sterilizer bring up three
y-bottleS-complete. And then get
a pint of milk from the refrigerator.
That's all know about a baby"
That's not germane to the real
subject" said Binnie, "but I'll do what
! can"
x X x X
WITH milk and water warming on
NV the plate, and her door locked,
Ann took the baby on her lap. She
knew that you must hold their heads
up, and sterilize their bottles, warm
their food, and feed them every three
hours-and there her technical knowl-
edge ended AS to food, new cows
milk and water, she knew, were incom-
plete, but she had faith that eight
hours of such a diet would not prove
fatal. She fed the baby, sitting by the
window. The baby. feeding content
eddy, lay In some thick cocoon of 81
lence, utterly withdrawn from every
contact. Ann looked at her and
thought:
Funny little blob of life. Where
are you going?"
The baby looked up at her with wide
Eyes and seemed to reply: Funny little
blob Of life. Where you going?"