The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-04-14
90 DOT 4 BABYT
4 San Franrtseo BelIe Interviewed by
- four-Tenr old.


ON ons of the delightful days LAST
week a young lady well known in the
exclusive first circles Of San Francisco
society for uurivallcd personal charms
and elegance Of accomplishments. was
driven around to make eougratulatory
call upon a married lady who was hap
ply couyalesccut from that occasional
sacred event in the lives OF welded
ladies' which far from being sickness,
- the perfect elimination OF their
health. She VAS shown into the parlor,
and for the few minutes required to
arrange for her reception in the room
whore mother and child We're doing as
well ss could be expected, was left with
no other 10 entertain her than the only
son and heir TO the house. Master
Charles, then in his fourth year. But
I Charles was equal to the situation and
| promises to grow up into an ornament
/ OF society that will never be abashed bv
| esuty, however brilliant. into the
| ainlul negative Of no conversation.
| after some uuesseu,ial preliminary re
marks, Master Charles approached
/ nearer the visitor and, lowering his
tone into the confidential, asked
| Miss ---, 90 dot a baby p
! Tho young lady gave one swift glance
around TO assure herself that there
was no other heaTer to this pertinent
| question and replci
NO, Charlie, dear, have not"
And did 90 never have baby p
Ia spite Of the youth of her interlocu-
tor, her handsome eyes dropped before
his ingenious gaze, and her pretty face
flushed as she replied.
! No, Charles, | never did. Is not
this beautiful day p
And amt 90 never doin to have nc
baby ? persisted Charlie, declining to
enter on the tempting conversational
sidetrack Of the weather.
MY boy, ! cant tell. Tell me al
the names Of whom these are the pho
tographs'
And don't 90 want a babyg
Why. Charlie boy, what clos,
questioner you are. II you are no
, careful you viii grow into one of thos,
newspaper interyiewers, and then VIVA
VIII your mamma think of your
p Because, continued Charley. utter
" refusing TO be switched oil Il know
where 90 tan Diet one. The docto
brought my mamma one, and he keeptl
t them IN his oiiith You iuth do dowI
h. Ellith street to M1rtet street. and the,
b. 90 do down Martot street 10 Tarne,
street over SO far, and then 90 do up
lot OF thairtA and thath where he teen
'etn. And they're awful cheap. too
. hy papa hathn't paid for my mamma
baby yet, but beth dom to.
. Well, Charlie. I'm sure am rnucl
obliged to you for your full directions
, and III know just where to 70"
oh Nth, 90 needn't do II
tell my papa iuth ath soon ath ever b.
q tuIns hame that 90 want baby. an,
be u bet one for 90, and
, That young lady seized that littl
! boy by his two shoulders and. leanin,
= over so a. TO look full into his ewes. IA
said, with an impressiyeness lent b,
sudden terror
" See here, Charlie, listen to me.
e don't want any baby yet, and il yo,
D ever say anything abodt it to your pam
2 I'll never, never, never. Now will yol
{ PROMISE
Well if 90 don't want a baby,
b won't but ! tot everybody liked t
d have babieth. | do
The interview was here terminate,
by the entrance of a servant to usher ia
b visitor iuto the presence Of the conva
/ lcscent lady.