THE BABY’S HAND. 
Mbs Arnold was showing a friend through 
her pretty new house which was undergoing 
a second and final coat of inside paint, and 
gave promise of being as aesthetically beau¬ 
tiful as the ilecorative fervor of the age de¬ 
manded, the color being a delica te shell pink 
like the inside of a rose. 
“Isn’t it lovely,” Baid Mrs. Arnold admir¬ 
ingly to her friend. “ You see that is an east 
room, and so it is to have the tints of the 
morning. Some might think it too delicate 
for every day use. but I shall make that very 
delicacy a means of education. 1 have taught 
baby already t hat she cannot touch it. * Come 
hpre dimple’ to the little one toddling behind 
her. ‘ Baby won’t touch the pretty paint.” 
“Baby won’t,” cooed the little one in its 
sweet idiom, and giving it a kiss and an ai- 
rniring c rese, the young mother pointed out 
to her friend the beauty of the window em¬ 
brasure and the view it commanded. 
“I shall sit here Summer afternoons with 
baby. Won't it be lovely? Lace curtains 
within and green vines without. It will be a 
picture and a poem both.” 
And they strolled on, leaving the two-year- 
old baby looking with far seeing eyes through 
the pretty window, and it was not the rosy 
tint < f the paint, nor the flush of healthy 
childhood that spread slowly over the little 
face, and sent a tired little head to seek In 
vain for rest on its mother’s bosom. All 
thought of the tributaries of beanty or art 
passed from the mind of the young mother as 
the saw'her darling’s fever flushed face, and 
she locked the beautiful east room and left it 
to the gloom and solitude until the crisis 
was past! 
“And the dear little hands, like rose leaves 
Dropped from a rose, lay still, 
Never to snatch at the sunshine 
That crept to the shrouded sill.” 
Yes, it came to that! and an awful empti¬ 
ness of all life, and then a hard, rebellious 
acquiescence in the decree of fate, and one 
bright day the mother went into the pretty 
east room, and with her friend lived over that 
day when they had last stood there, and 
looked with exceeding bitterness on the tinted 
color that was to havo made ull her Summer 
bright. And what could brighten it now? 
Ah, me I how strange that w hen the voice 
of redeeming love says: “My peace I give 
unto you,” we will have none of it. If Mrs. 
Arnold had read on the walls in letters of 
light. “Let not your heart be troubled” she 
would never have heeded, and when her 
friend pointing through the window to the 
blue sky beyond said tenderly, trustingly, 
“she is safe,” the mother cast down her heavy 
tcar-dimmed eyes, and with a cry of joy 
kissed again and again one single blemish in the 
smooth painting of the window sill. What was 
it? Only the dear, dear hand of her baby im¬ 
printed there—the little hand, which had been 
laid one moment on the wet paint that had 
moulded it into this perfect shape, and that 
now seemed to point and lieckon the way she 
had gone; a baby’s sinless band that would 
some day be reached out to welcome her— 
“"With the light of Heaven thereon.” 
-- 
SWEET SIXTEEN. 
go away to somebody who is ready. Don’t 
live under the impression that you must ac 
cept the first love-sick youth who proposes. 
Be patient, deliberate and sagacious. There 
is a world of happiness for you between 16 
and 20. The world would be a dreary old 
waste if it were not for the 6weet faces of 
young girls with their piquant sayings and 
melting smiles. Your father has bought you 
a piano, and you have learnt how to play 
after many long and wearisome lessons. Don’t 
spoil all by getting married, for after that 
you won’t have much nee for your piano. 
After you have reached 20 it will be well to 
consider the matrimonial problem with some 
seriousness. And even then, if you have a 
good home, you need be in no hurry to solve 
it. 
-» ♦ ♦- 
Middle Life. —“It is a solemn thought 
and feeling connected with middle life,” says 
the late eloquent P. W. Robertson, “that 
life's last business is begun in earnest; and it 
is then, midway between the cradle and the 
grave, that a man begins to marvel that be 
let the days of bis youth go by so half- 
enjoyed. It Is the pensive autumn feeling; it 
is the sensation of half-sadness that we ex¬ 
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passed, and every day that follows is shorter, 
and the lighter and feebler shadows tell that 
nature is hastening with gigantic footsteps 
to her winter grave. So does man look back 
upon bis youth. When the first gray hairs 
become visible, when the unwelcome truth 
fastens itself upon the mind that a man is no 
longer going up hill, but down, and the sun 
is always westering, he looks back on things 
behind, when we were children. But now 
there lies before us manhood, with its earnest 
work, and then old age, and then the grave, 
and then home. There is a second youth for 
man better and holier than his first, if he will 
look forward, and not backward.” 
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