WHY BABY BEHAVED.
A clergyman credits a married' collect girl with an original and practical idejL " Recently," the olergynaan said, € *t christened h«r first baby. Now,ib*bi«# usually cry while they are being ourifit* ened ] but this one was as quiet «s * lamb. Throughout the ceremony it smiled up beautifully into my faoa. " 'Madam,' I said to th« young mother at the christening's erd, 'I must congratulate you on your Bttla one's behaviour. I have christened moro than two thousand babie», -but I never before christened om that b* bared so well as yours.'
" ' No wonder he behaved inH,' tfe young mother said, smiling demttrwv 'His father and I, with a pfft of ***** have been practising ohrißteaiag «a him fop the last ten days,/* 1
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9214, 18 April 1908, Page 3
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