Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-02
SENATOR TABOR,s BABY.
The Statesman in the Role of Father
 in a Chicago Theater.


 In Chicago Theater.
 From the Chicago News
 F Old Senator Tabor, of Colorado, occupied box at thu Grand Opera House in this city last Saturday evening" He was accompanied by his beautiful and accomplished young bride who carried in her arms her four months-old babe-a fat, pretty little thing who was exquisitely dressed and conspicuous 1y held up to the admiring gaze of the crowd ed auditorium. The baby behaved very well for half an hour, and seemed rather to enjoy the severe scrutiny to which she was subject ed by the critical lorgnettes of divers ladies and gentlemen present, and as for the pa rents, they appeared to revel in the sensa- tion the baby produced. Old Tabor himself paid no attention to the play; his orbs were glued upon the baby. Pretty soon the baby grew restless and seemed to be clawing at invisible objects in the circumnambient at mosphere and at the same time she gave ut terance to those infantile walls which the subtitle instincts of @ mother teach her to construe demand for refreshments This produced a palpable hustle in the Tabor family. Papa looked inquiringly at mamma whereupon mamma nodded meaningly at papa and then papa got up and took the baby in his arms and ambled out of the box, followed by mamma. The procession passed up side aisle and through the foyer into the ladies' dressing room, eleven hundred pairs of eyes following them and eleven hundred beating soft responses to this touching spec tacle We very much doubt whether there ever was a more pathetic tableau presented in Chicago theater. There was towering intellect, a mighty statesman, sublime ora tor, a social king, unbending himself to the sweet occupation of a tender and indulgent old IUb had guarded our country's interests at Washing ton were lovingly bent upon the paternal vigilance; the same unfinching arms which for thirty long tempestous days had held the helm of the ship of State and guided our nation through hostile pillows now clasped the perfumed darling of Colorado to her fathers heart and with their gentle squeezes conveyed pleasant assurances of the treat that was in store for the yearning baby pal ate; the same majestic voice which had thun- dered through the halls of the national Senate, had thrilled the souls of listening thousands and had commanded the admira- ton and awe of the civilized world, now crooned tuneful lullabies and sank to melo- dies sweeter by far than the murmurs of soft lutes or the signing of summerzephyrs or the c1amor of mountain brooks. They entered the dressing -room-pa and ma did, and the baby, too, and there the three remained for long time. Pa returned to the box in about an hour and sat the play out, but he paid little attention to the stage performance; his soulful eyes were turned constantly towards that wonder dressing-room where ma and the were, and where they remained the rest of the evening. thou dear father love! how dost thou sanetify and glorify the heart of manl To thy sweet influences how are the conquests of the intellect, the reward of statesmanship, the settlements of public service, the adulation of the multitude, the benefits of riches, the idolatry of the nation, and the clamorous gratitude of prosperity to be compared! And thou, o famed and puis- sant Tabor, how doth the paternal instinct symmetrize thy career and beautify thy ex- alted character, resting about thy brow like a glorious halo and crowding thy splendid life with diadem of intestimable value!