THE NAME OF FATHER. 29 



"Da-da," "papa," "dad," "pop," "old 

 man," "boss," "guvner," " father "that is 

 the gamut or scale of appellations which a boy 

 in this generation usually applies unto his sire. 

 In the order named they are used from the time 

 the child can first stretch out his little arms, the 

 love ligHt beaming from his eyes, and lisp the 

 word "da-da," until the age of manhood and 

 of reason has been reached the age when, with 

 a hearty and true hand grasp and a greater 

 and more tender love light glistening from the 

 windows of the soul, the man can with true 

 reverence utter the word "father" and feel at 

 heart something of what it really means. He 

 who has had experience can almost guess at the 

 age of a boy or youth and the reverence he has 

 for his father by the name which he applies in 

 speaking of or to him. When youth is behind 

 and wisdom to some extent ours we never call 

 our sire "the old man," but with a heart full 

 of filial love, full of feeling for age, full of re- 

 spect for what he has been unto us, we speak 

 of him as "father" with somewhat of that rev- 

 erence with which we speak of that father of 

 nature, the Overlord of All. 



A handsome blue-black butterfly, the red- 

 spotted purple, 12 has made my front yard his 

 loafing place for the afternoon. He rests al- 

 ternately for a few minutes on the tent, on a 



lt Limenitis Ursula Fab. 



