A Baby Carriage In The Hall

A baby carriage in the hall. The handsomest piece of furniture that any house can boast, always making an lionorable exception in favor of the eradle. That baby carriage means a home. Without it only a place to stay in. It means a " dear dimpled dading " - that makes sunshine all the time - when it hasn't got the colic. It means a happy niother, whose life is filled with all tender care, all sweet respon¦ibilities, all wonderful hopes tbr the future. It means a father who holds bis head up amung men with the grandest dignity that anv uian may know. To the mother it is " baby." To the father it is " my boy." The baby carriage in the hall means all the wealth of rosy hours as mother sings lullaby songs - perbaps " llush, my dear, lle stlll and slumber, Holy angel gunrd thy bed." When all the time she is the angel that God appointed to guard it, as none of all hoaven's high host could do. It means a world of plans and projects which all center in that one little lite. It means a father who studies his bank balance with wonderful diligence, for " my on must have a good education and a good htart in life," you know; and hegoeshome and catches (he laughing toddier up, and reddens the the dimples with hiswuiskers, and then putting sturdy little 12 months'old on his feet sets him at his a, b, c of walking, addresing him with comical dignity, " Well, governor, where shall we go now?" And although he only calis him "governor," the mother's heart says- and the father wouldo't deny it,were she to put it in words - that more ükely it will be president, in that dim, bcautiful and certainly very grand future. II er choice, though, would bc that he should be a good mao and a happy one. Between them both they parocl out for bis manhood's years all that makes life worth the living. That baby carriage in the hall means a good deal, does it not ? It meaus cverythin; to the father and mother. It means more than can bc told. If you have such a piece of furniture in use you know all about it. If you haven't it's waste of raw material