Is it a petty or a profound trouble? I knew not; it is profound for your sons-in-law or daughters-in-law, but exceedingly petty for you. "Petty You must be joking; why, a child costs terribly dear " exclaims a ten-times-too-happy husband, at the baptism of his eleventh, called the little last newcomer, -a phrase with which women beguile their families.