The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-09

From st. Louis paper.
Singular Effect of Twins on a st.
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Singular Effect of Twins on a St
Louis Journalist.
A young woman in a street car with
two results of her loves young dream
ofa year old, sitting up in her arms
like two funny little china images
1t is Immediately assumed that the
funny little results are twins. They
are dressed alike, and have similar
chubby little fat legs, and fat dump
ling fists, and the turned up fat little
nose of the larboadr. baby is the
identical spit of the baby on the star
board, and they are both endeavOring
to make harty meals out of the
dumplings in the same beautiful
style of early cannibalism. They
stare at each other out Of their
bright goblin little eyes, as if they
were very old acquaintance indeed,
and could tell a thing or to of each
other if they would, bat are bound by
a solemn compact not 70 divulge, un-
til they are through with their con
tract for finishing the dumplings.
They must be twins, and are so
much alike that nothing less than a
mothers instincts can tell the differ
ence between them, and even then
it is wonderful how she can do it
without a strawberry mark stamped
somewhere on one Of them. Yes,
Hooking again, there is q distinction,
The larboard baby has the dirtiest
little nose ever exhibited by a repu-
table with chubby legs within the
limits of public conveyance. We
look in Wonderment at that baby:
nose, and rush to the conclusion that
a hydrant has bursted somewhere
in his inside. If It isn't q by
drant what is it? One fact is patent
the larboard baby cares no more
for the interior hydrant with q nose
attachment than he does for fnan-
cial panic. Nor does the starboari
baby either.
The poor little mother-she is not
much bigger than good-sized fami
lily Thanksgiving turkey-is terrible
anxious about the nose Of the lar
board baby. Atany other time that
dirty little nose would be a well
spring of pleasure to her, but it ism
now. She rubs it with strong pa
rental resolution, always the wrong
way, and with red cotton handker
chief, until the nose of the lsrboar(
baby was as red as . beet, and tn
larboard baby looks up in her face
as if to say, aHoW long, 0 Lord
how longT All this time the star
board baby is smiling wonderfully
bright smiles of goblin joy, anC
kicking up his absurdly chubby lit
tie legs in a way totally unmindfn
of the proprieties of high-toned soci
ty. Altogether, he looks as if ther
was nothing in the world half 81
splendid and enjoyable as the con
temptation of the dirty little nose 0
his larboard brother being rubbed
red hot.
We take long five cents Wortl
with those chubby twins and tha
happy little mother with her red col
ton pocket handkerchief, and we g
out of our way to see her rub he
. larboard offspring the wrong way {
his nose. AS for the starboard che
rub, nothing can be more sublim
than his enjoyment of his brother
martyrdom, while both larboard an
starboard continued to elevate thei
legs in a most disgraceful manne
. and gum their dumplings with
! perseverance worthy Of all prais
! There is, after all, one great good
a dirty little nose as long as it last
we thought, as the mother and he
: twins left the car; this woman ca
tell larboard from starboard if the
happen to get mixed up.