Just at present I am racked with worry for fear the Isaac Reeses are taking whooping-cough.

They have all got a dreadful cold and there are five of them who have important parts in the programme and if they go and develop whooping-cough what shall I do?
Dick Reese's violin solo is to be one of our titbits and Kit Reese is in every tableau and the three small girls have the cutest flag-drill.

I've been toiling for weeks to train them in it, and now it seems likely that all my trouble will go for nothing.
"Jims cut his first tooth today.

I am very glad, for he is nearly nine months old and Mary Vance has been insinuating that he is awfully backward about cutting his teeth.

He has begun to creep but doesn't crawl as most babies do.