MYSTERIOUSLY WARNED.

Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 209, 13 November 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

MYSTERIOUSLY WARNED.

Some of us know instances of that subtle sixtli sense which is'apt to affect women more than men, and which is so mysteriin character that its existence is often denied. A lady sat sewing in her sitting room, while in another chamber tho uursc was putting the baby to sleep. As the nurse came out, she eaid to her mi«tre>s; "I think, madam, that the little dear will sleep for full three hours." The nurse went downstairs and the mother sowed on. Suddenly a desiro seized ,her to go and take the sleeping child from its crib.

" What nonsense !" she said to herself. " Baby is sound asleep. Nurse just put her down. I shall not go."

Instantly, however, a still stronger powor urged tho mother to go to her baby; and after a moment sac rose, half vexed with herself.

The baby was asleep in her bo« , I safely tucked in with soft white and pinl: blankets. One small hand was thrown above the brown head. The hand wai half open, the fingers slightly curved and the palm as rosy as the depths of :i loTely shell.

"My baby !" whispered the mother, adoring the little sleeper as mothers will "My own dear little baby !" She bent over suddenly, a third time impelled by that imperious force which was controlling her, and, for no apparent reason took the sleeping baby in her arms and went swiftly into the other room.

She had scarcely cro>sed the threshold when a startling sound caused her to look back. Through a stilling doatl of thick grey dust she saw that" the ceiling had fallen, lying heaviest of all upon that spot where, but for lisr mystic warning her precious child would even then be b' ln K-