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A Vanity Book

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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m tne beginning ones parents must be the anthors, or if the parents will not then some devoted aunt may win for herself the warmest thanks in years to come. When Heart's Delight carne to earth some 15 years ago, a substantial volume was bought to be her book. Into this went flrst the genealogy of the family on father'sand mother's sides as far as there was knowledge of it Photographs of great-great-grandparents, grandparents and parents were inserted. The wedding dress of the paternal grandmother was shown by a small piece, and the maternal side was rich with bits of the wedding dresses of mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Photographs of father and mother at the time of their marriage and when Heart's Delight was bom were also added. To these were added one of the house and the room which the little maid made blessed by her coming. The announcement card went in and letters written for her welcome. Mamma wrote a description of the wonder, and papa took her photograph. All this was for the beginning, but as months went on there was more to chronicle. Baby's ways, the coming of her first tooth, her flrst word and when it was spoken, when she began to creep and then to walk - all these were recoided. Into the book went, too, such treasures as the flrst sock, the firsj little shoe, a piece of her first colored dress. Everything of whatever kind that marked a beginning fonnd a permanent place in the Vanity Book, and the story of the child's life may be read cherein. As the child developed the character of the items naturally changed. When she went to school, her early efforts supplied more material, sometimos in the snape oí scnooi worg and sometlmes as stories of childish temptations or griefs and joys. Heart's Delight's first letter is enterad in che buok. There are so many tokens here tbat are treasures, more valuable as they grow older. The first invitation to a party, the first theater programme, and with this are other programmes of those thiugs which have impressed the child. Her first party dress, of course, was shown in the book. Throughout the book are photographs of Heart's Delight herself as she grew toward girlhood and of the girls and boys who were her friends. Long ago the bookmaking feil into the hands of the girl herself, and she adds to it all tbat points to the story she is making. Everything of pleasure, of special benefit in her life, is to be recalled from this book, and even now she prizes it above all her possessions. What will it be to her when she is 50? What will it be worth to her son or daughter when some one writes "Pinis" to it for her? What would you not give for snch a book left you by your mother or father? It would be worth more thau raoney. There is a great deal of pleasure to be foond in makiug such a book for oneself, though if one begins it after childhood he loses much that went iuto the little one's book. It will become fllled, however, with the important things of life, eaoh making these for himself. A vauity book is one of the best things in the world to show how one's ideas of values change and how life's horizon expands. It records a life with some of those which preceded it and gave it its bent and those which accompanied and de veloped it. Though it may be vanity,

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News