The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-13
THE PRETTIEST BABY.


10 the baby show? No, indeed!
GOD bless me! no, lndeed!"
HAD the youngest sister OF MI John
1rueaX Every bright and pretty she
was. with short, curly, black-as-the-
raven swing hair, and large, spark
ing, dark-as-the-mldnlght-sky eyes,
proposed that he should enter cage OF
the widest KIND OF Wlld admissions,
tigers, leopards and PARTNERS, for in
stance-he could not have shown more
CONSERVATION ana horror.
Mr.. IrueaX, albeit he only numbered
some slX-and-thlrty years, was mi
Sogynist and misogamist. He out
bachelored all the bachelors of his ac-
quaintance, and they were not few, as
he associated with none but single men,
never attending wedding, shuddering
when he heard Of birth, breaking off
all communication with friends who
plunged into matrimony, and carefully
avoiding all women, rich and poor,
proud and lowly, with the single excep-
ton of Winifred, his youngest sister,
mentioned before, who had been left to
his care when she was twelve years of
age-being now twenty-by dearly
loved dying mother
The reasonP I'll tell you.
Once on a time John TrueaX. then
oolIod Jool- T,.,,,,- . oJ Ial-;o,
.'I n' o"oN ~ uo'A' Sooo1ioohliS'
JoIly young lello" q! nNe-anu-IWelty,
was about to be married. The wedding
day had arrived. The rroomsmen and
bridesmaids tho noranfs of Jool- ond
.IIt' - 70 ~ ooh %ii"
tne parents oi (aS ne Ioholy thought(
ms LILY, ana q large number OF invited
guests were present
bell formed Of lovely flowers hung
from the ceiling, prepared to shed its
sweets upon the heads of the happy
lovers; the minister waited, book in
hand; hundred wax candles helped
the gas-lets to lend brightness to the
scene; the wedding supper was laid
when the bride S own maid, who had
been sent to tell her all was ready (she
had requested to be lett alone few
moments before the ceremony, and,
belng an odd sort OF girl, nothing
strange was thought OF TINS request),
returned, pale and trembling, to the
room where the bridal party waited,
with note whlch she mad found, IN
stead OF her mistress, and which read
as follows:
DEAR FATHER AND DEAR MoTHER-Ido not
love nm: Inc feeling L mistook for love is
gaGed Si' have met onn whom do love "e and at
the last moment | fly TO meet him and become
his wife, convinced that, dishonorable as my
conduct may seem, it would be thousand
tar th In, 20 sI I GeIore rd
condemn me to live lie forever after. Tell
Jack wish him all prosperity and happiness.
LILY.
The bell of flowers was taken down,
the wax candles eXtinSuished, the min
lister departed, the guests were dis
missed, and John TrueaX left the house
with curse upon his lipS-for he knew,
in spite of her romantic note that the
girl had been won by the wealth of his
rlyal-to become a hater OF women,
foe to matrimony, Vicr-President of the
" Stanch Old Bachelors Club" and a
perfect Herod in regard to children.
What wonder, then, that he shrank
back in alarm when Winnie proposed
(they were on their way to the Acade-
my OF Music to hear some man make a
speech) that they should stop few
moments at the baby show, whose fam
ing posters suddenly confronted them
as they reached the corner of Fifth av-
enue.
-" DO come, BROTHER" said Winnie,
coaxingly-and you never in all your
life saw anyone who could be quite so
coaXing as Winnie.
9 won't!' said her brother, emphat-
ically. ..r
just wee, little while"
:" | will not" with increased empha-
sis.
"John, if you don't, I'll invite Cousin
Mary and her twins, and Sister Lucy