Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-18
WON BY A NECK.
How the Literary Editor Heat the TrOt-
ting Horse Editor at the Finish.


ting Horse Editor at the Finish.
From the Chicago Tribune.
us Beatrice a good name for baby?"
young woman of prepOsSesSing appearance
stood in the door of the editorial room and ad-
dressed her interrogatory in a seemingly gen.
eral manner to the gifted gentlemen who were
occupying the several corners of the apartment
For moment nobody seemed to regard the
question as directed particularly at him, but
finally the trotting horse reporter removed his
generously propOrtoned feet from the desk on
which they had been resting and allowed
smile to play over his auarter-stretch features.
''Haye you baby?" he asked.
''Nhy, certainly replied the young woman
her tone indicating surprise, slightly tnged
with anger.
''Wen." said the personal friend of Rarus.
you mustn't get angry. because one soft SEN
suous day in summer when the birds were tWit-
terfng their sweetest twits, woman came up
here on the same errand that brings you, and
after we had picked out a pretty smooth title
for her infant forget whether it was Miriam
or Carita we settled on-She went away happy
and along in the fall-the golden-tinted fall
just as the leaves were turning brown and all
nature seemed hushed in sweet repOse, waiting
for the base ball championship to be decided,
she came back again with a wistful, weary look
in her soft brown eyes and said she had been
mistaken-it was a boy. Woman's nature, you
know, SO buoyantly hopeful. so sweetly pre-
vious, that she Will frequently mistake q four
flush for the real article. 1t is the painful MEM
DRY OF blackened past that makes us cautious
about furnishing names for babies until we
know that the little cherubs are here. Do you
catch On?"
The lady nodded
''Well," resumed the admirer Of Maud s..
there are lots of things to be considered in
naming a baby. Your husbands name is-?"
Perkins" replied the lady.
THAT isn't a bad name although It would be
difficult to enshroud it with the mystic glamour
Of romance. But hardly think Beatrice would
look well in front Oft. The name of Beatrice ;
YOU know. is always associated with stateliness
and beauty. and your little tOOSy-wOOtsy might
grow up bOwlegged and pug-nosed. And, be-
sides, Beatrice Perkins wouldn't sound ,ust
right You might call it"
Her. if you please" said the lady, severely
I'VE always call em it in this office: it saves
time and prevents our getting ratified AS
was saying you might call it Perkins Maid, or
Belle OF Perknsrille, or something like that.
knew a man in Kentucky who had chestnut
gelding-"
Il can hardly see what that has to do with
the matter under consideration" said the lady
in severe tone.
You are right, madam: did swerve a little
that time. Now, Sweetheart is good name
Out in California they think Sweetheart can
take the pole from anything that looks through
bride. Now, if you had twins YOU might call
one sweetheart and the other one Darling.
ing the near one up little higher nobody could
see the difference between them. OF course if
they were not gated alike. or you had to put q
Kicking strap on one of 'em, it might be
that
Let me tell you again, SIR" said she, ''that
am not naming horse. Perhaps this gentle
man, turning to the literary editor, could give
me the information desire"
Certainly madam, replied that person :'You
should name your little treasure Cecil-the
name las such sweet, dreamy, aristocratic
sound"
'Of course" said the notified parent. land
am exceedingly obliged for your suggestion'-
and she departed,
You seemed to lose your saroir riore," said
the literary editor TO the horse reporter
Yes, replied the young man. .'she carried
me TO double break at the turn but I should
have settled pretty quick and come down the
homestretch very fast. If she hadn't hurried
me so niue in scoring. I'd have picked out a
daisy name for that filly of hers"