Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-17

she turned her head in a tired way, aud
sighed as if she had been 20 years old.
4" Madam, is it true that your husband is
dead and these seven are your children q
asked the gentleman passenger quickly,
leaning towards the mother. con, yes,
sir, she replied and the baby was
born two months after my husbands
death
THEY WERE POOR,
There was no doubling that, and uncon-
sciously the questioner's hand went TO his
pocket. g How do you get along!" he
asked in whisper, but the children were
between, and the other passengers straining
their. ears to hear, heard it. The woman
replied in low voice: IS get them bread
by my daily labor, and not much beside
The bread costs nearly all earn. Her
tears started, and the baby looked wonder
ingly up into her eyes. The richly; dressed
passenger was crying, and so was the plain
iy-dressed one Without a word the gen.
tlemau reached into his pocket and the
shine of a five-dCllar piece caught the sun
as it passed from his hand. Then the rich
woman leaned across and
THE TELLTALE SUNBEAM
Frightened against another FIVE dollars
and the plain woman added dollar and
closed the widows hand over all. Nobody
said anything, but when the car stopped
the rich woman got out and helped with
the children and went away, suppose to
the womans home with her. leading the
crippled bird and the boy that came next
to the baby. If there is one person in a
car preferred above another it is that per.
son who is all by herself covered with
glory, the woman with the baby. l never
saw anyone look at her as though she were
in the way, and the men all see her
through their newspapers and rise to give
her and the baby seat. Ihe other
women shower little indulgent beams Of
smiles upon her, and when the conductor
comes in he smiles and makes Joke at the
baby, which all the other men are quick to
hear and appreciate, and one rattles his
paper in the haby's face and two more fall
into conversation on account of it. a lit
tie child exclaims, See, mamma, there's
baby! !" and by right of this exclamation
that mother leans forward, while the other
passengers look breathlessly on, and asks
how old the baby is, if it has any teeth
and if it can walk or talk yet. Oh
THE WOMAN WITH THE BABY
Has all the privilege of royalty in street
car, and she may walk fearlessly in and
take possession if she choose. l have said
nothing yet of the cars that are crowded
from to in the evening with the people
going to concerts, theaters and other after
dark entertainments. They have always a
look of anticipation which is free from care,
and are full Of pleasant chatter. A woman
never looks SO fresh and pretty as during
that one hour after dark, when the dusk
softens her face and before she is faded and
sleepy with excitement and the effort
amusement costs. When you come home
late at night you will find the real work
people of the theater going home, and they
are tired indeed after the hard labor of the
evening. Perhaps it viii be Rose Osborne
after playing Cicily Blaine, or Jean Clara
Walters, exhausted after her effort in the
grand but hard old Countess Danicheff, or
Walter Leman or Eva West or Mrs.
Saunders, for they have all been before US
lately, playing with the Wallack company,
which goes from us to Sacramento during
fair week. They carry with them hor-
rible play called "The Strangers OF Paris, .
warranted to make your blood run cold
from beginning to end, and three Others re-
garded as strong plays since they were first
presented" A Celebrated Case" The
Galley Slave, and "The Danicheffs."
KATE HEATH.