The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-10-15
WOMEN WITH BASKETS
WAITING FOR UNPROTECTED MEN.
Tho Evils Which Are Apt to Befan Poor
Lone Masculines While Hanging
About the Railroad DepOts
Chicago.
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Chicago.
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In Chicago depots it has got so that mer
look upon women with baskets and bun
dies with suspicion, and if a strange woman
asks man to hold her basket or bundle
for minute, the man turns pale and skipi
tiit of the depot so quick that the woman
thinks he is crazy. Occasionally stran'
for from the country will grant the re
qlest of a lady to take care Of bundle
;or a moment while she buys a ticket, but
no very shortly finds that he is in posses
sion of baby, and that the woman has
disappeared. There is nothing that Is
much more annoying to a sensitive man
than to be sitting in depot, and have
package left in his charge for moment,
and after the owner of the package has
gone, TO have the contents Of the package
begin to cry. A man thus surprised will
turn pale, though his face may be natural
~ red or black. He will listen to that cry
and feel that all the world believes him to
De the father of the package, and the more
he tries to explain the singular circum'
stance, the more people will look at him
as though he was bad man. He looks
around for the author of his misery, but
the baby cries, and he has to attempt to
soothe 1t. No man is constituted SO as 30
stop the crying of young babe, and all
efforts are barren of results. To see
man that has had a baby left in his charge,
looking down into the basket and wishing
he were dead, is picture Of sorrow that
only has to be seen once to be remembered
always. The man Immediately wonders
what he Is going to do with 1t. He can not
.eave It In the de pot, because he would be
accused Of abandoning the child. He does
aos want to take 1t home with him. Few
men are qualified with the proper amount
of gall to come home from q journey to
Chicago, bringing with them baby. No
matter how truthful man may have been
all his life, to go home with baby In q
basket and tell his wife that strange
womanl leftit on his hands, would cause
doubt and suspicion in the minds OF
ninety-nine wives out of hundred good
women. They would suspicion that there
was a certain resemblance existing be-
tween the baby and the basket carrier,
whether there was or not The hardest
explanation man is ever called upon to
make in this world is how on earth II hap
| pened that an abandoned child falls to
him. II child is abandoned, somebody
has got to discover it, and it is as liable
TO be one man as another, but
whoever it is the wife can not be-
| lieve that IL Is q mere accident. Years
ago 1t was the practice of people who de-
sired 20 dispose of babies to 60 into a
passenger train and leave the baby on a
seat, knowing that the good conductor
would see that the little nedd not suffer.
1t was considered quite a joke on con-
ductors at first, when baby was found
on their trains, and the paper would allutle
TO the incident in a pleasant manner, and
the boys would call conductors orphan
asylums, and all that, but the business be-
came monotonous after awhile, and many
good conductors got to turning pale when
q woman entered car with basket. IL Is
as hard for a conductor TO explain such
thing TO his wife as IL is for anybody,
and conductors wives are as apt to have
suspicious as anybody's wives, and 1t was
not strange that conductors who had repu
tations to maintain, and who desired
peace in their families, got In the habit Of
saving of such unclaimed baggage on
to the brakemen and parlor car por-
ters. The brakemen and porters rather
liked the excitement and notoriety OF be-
ing brevet fathers, for time, but on a
salary Of sixty dollars a month brake
man can't run many foundllngs' homes.
so they jumped the game, and babies
left In cars were for long time
either laid to passengers, who occu.
pied the nearest seat, or were turned
over TO the lost baggage department at
the end Of the run. This made the
company responsible, and all well.
regulated railroads had TO have an or
phhn asylum at some central point
which was expensive, and caused re
mark. at the annual, meetings OF direc
tors which were not complimentary x
the managers. Whether the railroad
managers have an understanding with 70
males who have babies that they. do no
Whutt vi uOV, 10 uop kuVWht pus Soibniu
ls that babies are not now left In cars
The waiting rooms Of depots catch about al
the trade, and strangers In Chicago VIII,
are waiting for trains are very liable h
have children left In their charge, so 4
might be well for travellers to 90 armed
with nursing bottles, SO that II they An'
that baby has been given them for SAT-
keeping, they cen at least feed the llttl
|. one, and relieve suffering. Or bette
scheme would be to have train boys an,
newsstands compelled to keep rubber nor
rled nursing bottles as well as vegetabl
ivory and peanuts with the ,shucks wori
Ihin from transportation in baskets. Thes
children OF misfortune must not be left ;,
, iie, and all men should be prepared will
, thc utensils TO give the poor little waif
! warm meal, IN addition TO this, tho rail-
|, road companies ought to have blank Ger
/ tihcates 10 oil out for man whose ticke
| draws q baby. testify Ing that he got II th
way he tells his wNe he did, by having
left on his hands. Such certificates woul
, do much to restore oonfidence when
| man brings home strange baby. ...
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