GOT THE DESIRED BABY FOOD.
■tat Iter ft fiifhrvitfi# 'V'Ouxk^H^i 4 JSfo<jc#r«i $&« l«i smnei *»*;»s£ <»f jtt. Di^l^ant, “What shall w« do fur the hahy?’’ was often s;.*kt*«l in a certain West, side household recently. Atul «'rtainly the be, by needed some! hiug. It was pale and jinny and seemed Imlfstarved. The child was ar. the intermediary age when it.-, natural food was 'insufficient. and a! ii 1 ii was (oo you up - for t)(M r. ; k and piu.aloes, says I hr Chicago liner it-aiu. “Thr idiild must ham • some. baby food," .-•a it I tl.r mother. “Yes,” said thr fa Ihr r, '‘hr, could, ‘have it ii’ I were rich. Ii would oosi $1! a week ai i.o .-amply him v/iiit •‘baby food, a :a! i ;■:>• I only £l O week." “Hui. you a.tv. not g./ug to .IfI; .hint starve ehr r. f;i an d “bo, i will iiUi.a:;.- !•« get it," hr said. “I f you will press my .suit, dear. I '..i1l try’ to ■ ome food toluurii.ii," “U hal has the suit to do wit h it?” she asked. "You will see,” lie said. 8o next day thr fill lire of the starving young f,nr went down loan. lie wore Ids Sunday suit liiai ha.il dour, service for two yeara. When hr entered one of the big drug stores he locked in hr worth ai least. $5,000 A year. To a cirrk he said; “I called to see about baby foods. Our child is .in need of sonic auxiliary nourishment, ’but- 1 do not know what to get for him. My wife says our cook told Die second girl that you might probably furnish us with sonif. samples of the various kinds of foods you can;}' iu stock. If you can do that we will try them ami then 1 can order a supply of the kind that best agrees with the child/' “Certainly/’ said Die clerk, and a package containing samj’les of semi kinds of baby food was fori hcondug. Thu quantity was siiilieient to last, a month. When (In- supply is <■ sliausted he will go to another drug store land toll'the clerk what Ihe cook /.old the second girl. I’liy like Poor Two ladies were discussing the spectacular existence of a very rich man. “Yes, my dear,” said "<ie, "I knew him when he worked bo - » T.ele doe for three dollars a week. (.); course that is the price fixed for all millionaires who hare ramie their money, and it does make one i ire-d, bui : his is literally true. And now he has a house in New York, another ai Newport, a farm on Long I-dand. an estate in Lenox and eoUages at 'I uxedo and Aiken, besides a yacht and a private car that is the r.po'hc-'. ;s ■■ > leather and gilding,” “Where is his hmnc? M asked Die other. “Horae? ITe hasn't any. When they get as rich as that they’ve no more home instinct. than milk-cans.”---Youth’s Companion.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3555, 3 August 1905, Page 3
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493GOT THE DESIRED BABY FOOD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3555, 3 August 1905, Page 3
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