" i The twins had been a source of joy and
speculation lor three or four weeks to
Sirs. Branhild and her husbandto Mrs.
Branhild especially, for anything in the
khana of a baby aroused the deepest
sympathies of her nature, ' perhaps be
cause she had never had one of her own.
Nevertheless, there was no Infantile dis
order for which the little woman did not
have ft sovereign remedy, and her diagno
ses were unerring. She could talk the
language uini uauies uuueniuiuu tui av
- fluency and expression that mothers of
six might hare envied, and the most ob
streperous little brats that ever murder
ed midnight sleep would, under her gen
tle ministrations, become simply cheru
bic. . , , '
.' Mr. Branhild was interested in the
(twins simply because they would have in
xexestea anybody, as tney were wneeiea
past the Branhild cottage, one at each,
end of their basket carriage, looking as
'fresh, plump and enticing as two pink
v4i0rrloa mi otnlfc- th mnKt rhrnnli
1 .misanthrope would have felt an impulse
to arrest their progress until he should
have pinched their,' soft, round cheeks
nd coaxed the dimpled fingers into ding
ins touch of his. ' They were dark eyed
twins, with quite' a profusion of -soft
- torown. hair, considering their age, and
the girlish looking woman who wheeled
then. had the same eyes and hair. They
alwaps passed at about the same hour
in the afternoon, and they never came
back the same way.
''I; wish I knew who she. was said
Airs,' Branhild to her husband one even
ing. She looks so dignified I'm afraid to
speak, to her, but I must hold those dear
little things if J have to put a tollgate
nfctpsa the sidewalk. Aren't they dear,
VrtAV . ' ,
' "They're mighty cunning babies.' said
Hr. Branhold. "I suppose she takes
'them for an airing in the park and goes
home around the block. Why do you
jvant to know who she is?"
" i Naturally I want to know everything
iabout her. 'I want to know their names
tend what she feeds them and how old
khey are and whether their father doesn't
(Worship thembut of course he does. I
never saw two such sweet little girls in
all my life." -
"How do you know they are not boys?"
I Mrs. Branhild looked at him scornfully,
but vouchsafed no other reply. '
"Then why don't yon ask her and find
out?"
"I did bow one afternoon, but she look
ed up so coldly and bowed to me in such
a freezing manner that I haven't had
tlfa "courage to try it again. I suppose
all sorts of people are everlastingly stop
ping her to ask about them and she is
tired of it. Perhaps I would be, too, and
jei ours, jaraoiuiu Bigueu. -
fit would tickle yon to death, and yon
know it would. Here they come back
dow the same way, but she's traded car
riages or something." v
i "She has, hasn't she? , But that isn't
the woman surely not. There'st the
twins, though. Why, Fred, those are not
the twins it's another set!"
i It was another set and another young
mother, and the eyes of these twins were
blue, their hair flaxen what there was
of it and their gender masculine.
! "Did yon ever hear of anything like
that?" said Mrs. Branhild.
f "Why, I suppose there is more than
one pair of twins in Chicago," said Mr.
: iBranhild. ";. ,:
But the remarkable thing was that
from that day the blue eyed babies were
driven daily past the Branhild cottage
as regularly as the brown eyed pair, and
little Mrs. Branhild was at a loss which
Hot the two to admire most. The blue
ieyed ones passed at about 3 o'clock and
Ithe brown eyed ones half an hour later.
"NoW, I should say there was a special
Providence in this thing if it wasn't for
(that half hour of difference," said Mrs.
foranhild, musing, with a prospective
jeye. "f'l wonder whether they don't pass
somewhere. I suppose not, though. 'They
probably miss each other by about a
minute. That's the way it is in this life;
,we miss things." She sighed a little sigh
nd thereby attracted the wandering at
tention of Mr. Branhild, who patted her
hand and said, "I'm glad that I didn't
miss you, my dear." . -.
J Bnt . Mrs. BranU'ld's estimate of th
,ways of Providence was not well based
after all, for about two weeks ago Mr.
Branhild, looking op the street, and Mrs.
Branhild, lookiDg down the street, both
simultaneously exclaimed. "Ilere come
the twins!" - 1
And, sure enough, this time the blue
eyed and the brown eyed were approach
log from opposite directions and would
soon meet. Mr. Branhild carefully meas
ured the distances with his eye and then
turned to his wife and said, "I believe j
tbry will hit jost aboot here." -
Tbe little womaD made no reply. She (
xr as too absorbed in her own calculations,
tnt la a moment the said in her turn:
,"Iil just bet you that they meet right
la front here. I wonder if tbey will
How could they help it? Ai the 73 ran
V.'. U l.fid predicted, the two pothers,
with their duplex ofTsprlns. met J a front
cf tie cottase and no introJci :'.oa was
T ' -".TJ.
' !' -let cf the brown eyed and mother '
f f ; l ine ? !: "Why. if you fccTpa't
r f. ! i:.vir..-:.r. j .el V r.r car-
- - ' i r ' t - r" 1 r- r - ' a 1 I
1 1 r
In one arm, sue called to Fredito come
down to look. , ,-,., I .
And a little after that all tour of the
babies were kicking their fat little legs
on a shawl spread on the neat little
Branhild lawn, and it turned out that
after all there was nothing naughty
about the mother of the brown eyed ba
bies any more than there was about the
mother of the blue eyed babies, or about
little Mrs Branhild herself, for that mat
ter. 1 , .
The shawl on the lawn Is now almost a
regular afternoon institution. Yon can
see it any time, yon msy happen to go
down the street, witn tne two mowers
and Mrs. Branhild in attitudes of adora
tion at the dges, while TJncle ; Fred
smokes his pipe on the porch and looks
benevolently down on them. "It Is really
one of the sights of the city, if yon are
only lucky enough to end it c-nicago
liecord. -
If brass or copper, after cleaning, la
robbed with old, soft newspapers; It wB
look much brighter and keep clean much
longer.
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can atnroacli it in efflcleacy. Jt In-
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small slse. Book all about dyspepsia maUeairee
prtparta ey c w. us wi 1 1 a vqicu8b.
r J. E. HOOD. :
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