Judge — July 11, 1908 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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PROVIDENCE ARMS THE LABORER. f any place resorts more returned the Phi Philadelphia Help us Where the ice we ordered Washington Star. HIS “PITTY ITTY PICTURE.” ery first time he ever had his photograph taken, so, of course, we want to get the very best pic- possible, and—no, grandma; I don’t think, after at we'd better try to have it taken with his little rattle in hand. Do you, Aunt Harrie? You see, he would want to shake the rattle at the very moment when the photog wants him to be perfectly still; but I don’t believe we can get him p perfectly still for ten seconds. He is really the most active saw, Mr. Photographer, He n lie still in his ’ ly think that it is nervousn : nything else, The doctor says that the child is perfectly well. In fact, 1 never saw a healthier chi He has never been sick « minute, and he é six months old to-day. 1 didn’t want his photograph any earlier than that, for I think that a baby hardly ever has much ex- pression until he is about six months old, although ever that our Little Reginald is different from most bi His Aunt Lucy was saying yesterday that he had the most intellig expression of any—oh! I want several negatives taken, 4 which one T like best. His sgrandma—that is, my mother he wants one just hi nd shoulders; and his other grandma is ve anxious to have a full figure, with him lying on a pillow we brought with us, His Aunt Lucy wants us to try and get a profile of him for her, for she “has really a remarkable profile for a child of his ant one picture with him in my arms, and his dear little k cuddled up to mine; and then we think it would be nice to hay him and his two grandmas taken together; and I want one with him and my mother and myself all in it, showing three geners I think that better not fuss with his hair, grandma, Those litle curls are about right, and I hope they will show good in the picture, p . ; 5 Q boy, ten months old, and he hasn’t a third as then he has never been real well, and he weighs a pound less. than our baby, and yes; we will be ready in just a few minutes, We want to slip on his best dress, We brought it with us ina box, so that it wouldn't be all mussed up by him wearing it. Then we brought his best little cap, that his Aunt Jennie sent him from out West, and we want one taken with it on to send to her, ‘This odd little rattle we brought is one his grandma had when she was a baby, and she thinks it would be ni it in his hand when it ix taken, Lam expecting his father in every minute. He said that he would meet us here at—here he is now! Here wi and all, and him hold out his little hands to his p: that when he was only four months and one week old, and a friend of mine has a baby, eight months old, that has never yet held out its hands to any one. I want one photograph with th arms, and—be careful, ! Don’t get the child excited, will be so hard to get him sti picture. The moment he He is so full of vitality no, Aunt Kitty, I don’t believe that we'd better all go into the ating-room with him, I think that if his papa and his t grandmas and I go it will be enough. tract him and make it hard to keep him still. Is your You know, he said when he was over to the house last night th perhaps he would try to come in, and we thought t would him and you and the baby taken together, the same name, I do think that it is nice to hand down a family name from one generation to another, and—yes, we will be ready in just a moment, as soon as—now, mamma's baby is go ve his own, owney, itty picture taken, so he is, and he must be ever and rso—what? Baby isn’t going tocry! Oh, my, my! Tut, tut, tut! He won't ery long. He never does. A cousin of mine has a baby that will ery all night, but, of course, the poor child isn't well. I don’t think that well babies ever ery much, and I know th a, you'd better step out of sight until I get him ready. He wants to go to you when around. Ido hope that the pictures will come out good. You sce, we want to have some of them dit th good, and, as I say, it is his first: photograph, and doin’ to have his own, owney, pitty itty picture taken— yes, The pict will show baby itty bird—yes, he will! Baby must ul me a safety-pin, som: © you his little 2 Aunty Lou, supposing you moisten a corner of my hief with w: There is a tiny smooch on on k. There, 1 think he is about ready, Ido hope the picture will come out yood! We mean toh . non his first birthday, and every birthday after that, and—no, papa, I'd better carry him into the operating-room. Tome, baby, and have his owney, own, pitty itty picture take MAX Munnystan. FILLS THE BILL. plinus customer—* want & of me ithout any bon xristle.” ildered butcher") ink you'd better have "The Sketeh. HORRIBLE, Heiress —* But, handsome foreign count » will do something desper: awful if I do not marry him." Father (dryly) He will. He will have to go to work." Lal comicbooks.com