The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-07-06
All About q Baby.

They had royal excitement in War
rensburg few days ago. 1t happened
in this way:
| A young attorney living few miles
below Warrensburg was coming up tc
the latter place to attend court, and with
him came his wife and child, the latter a
babe OF few months old. Arriving at
Warrensburg the attorney gathered up
| his things, the baby among the balance,
and proceeded to leave the car, followed,
as he thought, by his wife. On the plat
form stood klnd-hearted old gentleman,
who, seeing the attorney overDurdened
with baggage, held out his hands to re-
lieve him of a part of his burden, and
the baby fell to his share, while the law
yer turned round to help his wife of the
car.
But all this took time, and as the lady
was little tardy in getting out, and the
train had already commenced moving
away when the baby transfer.wa made,
bythe time the lawyer returned to the
car platform with his wife the train was
moving too rapidly for him to get off, ana
the cherub was left in the arms Of the
strange old gentleman.
The old gentleman turned red In the
face and called after the train, but it
was OF no use; and this calling out, and
the baby commencing to squall about
the same time, the attention of the
crowd was attracted to him.
No one III the crowd recognizing the
lawyer, it was decided at once, to the
evident satisfaction OF the crowd, but to
the disnihy Of the old gentleman who
was Intellectually trying to soothe the
squirming infant, that 1t was a, trick on
the part OF some traveller to cast the
child upon the charity of strangers.
A hoV no. ip,n h; l. 4
settled upon as the most tsatistactorysulu-
tion of the affair, the old gentleman;s wife
who had come down to meet some friends
coming in on the train, and who had re-
marked the second chapter in the his
tory OF how the grasshoppers had created
havoc among her ''garden truck" ar
rived on the scene OF her husbands con-
fusion, and after taking look at the
baby, said they would have 10 take care
of it.
But about as soon as this arrangement
was announced one of those evil-minded
persons who are always lettering around
causing trouble, looked closely at the
babe, and then casually remarked that
never in all his life did he see. child
bearing as close resemblance to man
as this one did to the old gentleman.
This was the most unfortunate femark
among the many made in connection
with that baby affair, for the old lady
instantly re-eXamined every feature OF
the little one, and then looked straight
in the face of her husban She was evil
IDENTITY Of the same opinion as the evil
minded person.
She then elevated her spectacles to the
edge of her hair, placed her arms akimbo,
and after a brief pause, doubtless to
take rull supply Of breath and arrange
her speech, opened out on her liege lord
in the sprightliest manner: Sand you,
you," she fairly hissed, 'to try to fool
me; mel And at your time Of life, tool
you thought you'd have it left on my
hands by accident, did you, you old rep
rebate? But that brat shan't never en-
ter my house., tell youW and for full
fifteen minutes came torrent of words
to the same effect.
The old gentleman, still holding the
innocent cause OF all the trouble, got
madder and madder as the wife got
warmer and warmer on the subject, but
he couldn't get in word edgeways. He
finally laid the child on baggage trunk
and fed, while the crowd fairly roared
at his discontinue.
The up train met the down train at
Centerview, the first station this side of
Warrensburg, and it was but a short
time before the attorney returned and
claimed his own, not half as much to his
own relief as to that of the old gentle-
man and his still indignant lady Kan
sas City Mail.