The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-09-28

NIr. Parker 8sd the BOW-Leg.
Ged B8aby.
From the New York World.
Mr.. Parker sat last evening In
Mr.. VanderbiIt's depot On Forty
second street, waiting for . train.
Mr.. Parker's ticket stuck jsuntily
out from HE hat band and relieved
the Otherwise sombre hue Of his
head covering. Mr.. Parker's face
gloWed with benevolence, and the
way in which he wiped the perspi-
ration from his oftY brow, beIrayed
at once the philanthropist. A hand.
some lady sat near Mr.. Parker talk
ing q wonderful patOis to q chubby
baby about three years old.
"Yes, 1t was its own muzzer's Int.
tie wopsy topsy, said the lady, toss
ing the growing child,
waugh, hoOf, y-a-hl !" remarked
aMuzzeF's dsriip', watts de maze.
wiz Il now is it nasty pinny- win
nyp =
"Y-e-e, on, on, ou, y-o-o-hi" con-
tinued the cherub, with q remarka-
II think. insdsm, the child wants
to get down" said Mr.. Parker In his
blandest tones.
The lady gave Mr.. Parker q long
look, and evidently satisfied by the
benevolent expression OF his cOun-
tensnce that he was not the abduct-
or of Charlie Ross, set the baby on
the floor.
1900, goo, goo," said the little
fellow, making q dive for Mr.. Par
ker's stick. Securing IL, he got as
tride and began to trot contentedly
about the room. Mr.. Parker look
ed after the child admiriDgly, but
suddenly gloomy look came into
his face, q frown gathered on his
brow, 'tCan 1t be 2" he said to him
self; do my eyes deceive me2 No,
they do not. The child is absolute
ly bow-legged. l must talk to the
mother about this. My duty. as q
philanthropist cOmpels me to take
this course. I'll break It gently,
lady and said, "Are you q student
Of physiology and hygiene, madam ?
81 can't exactly claim to be & stu
dent of those things" said the lady,
staring a little ct the strange Ques-
ton 81 believe did do them once,
with q lot OF other things, when /
was in boarding school,"
-"Perhaps, then, 1 would not be
far wrong If L should venture the
conjecture that you are not stu
dent of anatomy ?"
"Such q conjecture would be We
ry nearly right sir"
"YOu never rdissected a cadaver,
then you never articuIated skele-
ton; you never made preparation
out OF heart, or a-lung, S0r q liver
put sem in alcohol, you know 2"
continued Mr.. Parker.
"Ind eed, / never did," said the
lady, q little Indignantly, moving
away from her questiOner. &
"Sad," said Mr.. Parker, "very sad.
All women should be thorough stu
dents in these things, in order that
they may be competent to raise
their children properly. Now take,
tor instance" said Mr.. Parker, eau
tiously, for he did not wish to
arouse the lady's suspicious, -"take
for instance, q bow-legged baby
here Mr.. Parker paused, apprehen-
siyely, and wiped his brow.
go on" said the lady smiling
sWeetly and casting an sdmiring
glance at her own little darling, who
was trying the strength of the glsss
Parker's cane-"Go on, q. bow-leg-
limbed baby-w [
SNOW, why should one baby be
boW-limbedS' continued Mr.. Park
or, taking the lady's gentle hint "and
TIE all 20 IL, =
of care. What painful sight it is
to see the human form so twisted
out of shape-to see legs-limbs
which nature made straight, crook
ed into something like this" and
Nj! Parker swept q huge parenthe-
ale with both arms.
every painful, indeed" said the
lady.
"And the amount of ignorance on
the part of the mother, the almost
criminal neglect the-the-the-"
Mr.. Parker was getting warmed up
and hesitated for q strong word.
Failing to find 1t he finished the SEN
tenSe by saying, "Irs awful"
Perfectly awful" said the lady.
Mr.. Parker was encouraged. "She
is evidently moved" thought he /;
,'she sees her error and desires TO
let me know it. I will be bolder."
Thdn he cleared his throat and
pointed to tia baby, who had aban-
doned the glass door and was gaz-
ing gintently 1T the chancellor: ''See
the case ofgyour own child, madam,
doubtless the abnormal curve OF
his limbsp---Mr.F Parker never fin
ished that sentence. = 80 n
ado you mean to tell me my child
is bOw-legged 2" cried the lady, too
excited TO mince matters. "DO you
mean to say that all your talk about
anatomy, and hygiene, and physiol7
ogyj and corpses, and skeletons, and
pre- partitions, and hearts, and lungs,
and livers, and bow-legs, was aimed
at my little darling9 Why, you
miserable old sinner, his legs are q
thoHsand, yes fifty thousand times
straighter than yours. Oh, Ooh !"
And she Strengthened ont in her
seat and began to hammer the door
with her boot heels.
Mr.. Parker was crushed, but the
Instinct Of self-preservation re-
maihed selling his Btick from the,
fat hands of all his troubles, he jam
med HE hat over his eyes and rush-
ed from the building BY one door
just.a b policeman, elk passengers
and -four railroad men dashed in at
another to see who was committing
the murder.
"Great gums" muttered Mr.. Par
ker, as he got on q Fourth avenue
car TO go down town, 81 don't care
SO much about missing that train,
but 9"ll bet $1,000 that baby had
the worst bow-legs of any baby that
ever came into the county and city
of New York."
But Mr.. Parker was little excit-
ed When he said that n :
The beauty of the ladies' of Baltimore has
become the standard of comparison the
world over. They maintain that peculiar
clearness and richness of complexion by the