BY K. M. M.
What are you looking at, Baby dear,
With your wide-open serious eyes,
That were made from the depths of heaven's own blue,
Stolen away from the skies?
What do you think of this great wide world
That you gaze on with such surprise?
I should like to know, if you only could tell,
You look so grave and so wise.
The professor himself, who has studied for years,
Has not half so sage an air
As this baby of ours when he sits all alone
In the lap of the great arm-chair.
And what are you talking of, all by yourself,
In those words which none of us know?—
We forget so soon the language of heaven,
In this work-a-day world below.
But teach us those accents strange and sweet
That you've learned from the angels above,
For we must become like this little child
E'er we enter God's kingdom of love.
KNITTED SCARF.
Fig. 1—Knitted Scarf.
[See Fig. 2.]
Fig. 2.—Detail of Scarf, Fig. 1.
Little girls who like to knit will be glad to know how to make this pretty scarf. It is knitted with two threads, one of white and the other of chinchilla zephyr worsted, and wooden needles, crosswise, in rounds going back and forth. Strands of worsted are knotted in the ends for fringe. Begin the scarf with a thread of white and a thread of chinchilla worsted, cast on 27 st. (stitch), and knit as follows: 1st round.—(Slip the first st. of each round, and carry the working thread to the wrong side, slipping it through between both needles; the last st. is always knit off plain with both threads, catching them together. This will not be referred to further.) Lay the chinchilla worsted on the needle from the front to the wrong side, knit the next st. plain with the white thread, * carry the chinchilla thread underneath the needle and over the white thread to the front, lay the white thread on the needle from the front to the wrong side, purl the next st. with the chinchilla worsted, lay the latter on the needle from the front to the wrong side, carry the white thread underneath the chinchilla thread to the next st., and knit this plain, and repeat from *. 2d round.—Lay the chinchilla thread on the needle from the front to the wrong side, purl the next st. which appears purled on this side, together with the thread thrown over, with the white thread, * lay the white thread on the needle from the front to the wrong side, carry the chinchilla thread underneath the white thread to the next st., and knit this plain together with the thread thrown over, carry the white thread from the wrong side to the front underneath the needle, and over the chinchilla thread, lay the latter on the needle from the front to the wrong side, purl the next st. together with the thread thrown over, with white worsted, and repeat from *. 3d and 4th rounds.—Like the 1st and 2d rounds, but in the 3d round always purl the st. which appear purled on the working side, and knit plain those which look as if knit plain. Repeat always the 1st to 4th rounds, transposing the design (see Fig. 2). Finally, cast off the st. loosely with both threads.