Her Pathetic Contrast

It is uot in the saying of pungent things or even witty things that children become interesting, and this is why so often the glimpses of children we have given us are so uusatisfactory. It is the ntterance of things that have a heart of pathos that makes the talk of .little ones so wonderf ui. A lady standing between two beds at .a children 's hospital not long ago upon the occasion of a stuall feast opened conversatiou with one of the patients by .saying: " What have you had, dear?" "The pleurisy, ma'am, " carue the .answer. "And what has this little girl had?" "She's had cake, ma'am." This may be the sort of thing you ímile at whileyour throat tightens, but if you are a woinan the heart of love in