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LITTLE girl came to her mother near lunch-time with a stomach-ache.

"Perhaps your stomach aches," her mother said, "because it's empty—we'll put something in it, and then it will be all right."

The next day her father, who is a lawyer and has Congressional aspirations, came home with a hard headache. The small daughter came and stood near his chair. Looking into his face with sympathy, she said:

"Maybe your head aches because it is empty. You better put something in it and then it will feel all right."

AROLD is the only child of a father whose name is Howard, and the two names, so dear to the mother, are very often on her lips.

When Harold was four and a half he expressed a desire to learn the "big prayer" to say at night instead of the childish "Now I lay me," His mother taught it to him, and after he had been saying it, as she thought, perfectly for several months, he said one night, as she was leaving the room:

"Mamma, I'm not sure I say that prayer just right. Is it Howard be Thy name, or Harold be Thy name?"