The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-03-07

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of an opening in its top, and through this a
peculiar little cylinder was quickly thrust
| Ii had the appearance of sawed off smoke
stack. or of one of the little ventilators in
the old fashioned street cars The modest
reporter knew what it was there for. He
drew his eye glasses from his pocket, wiped
them carefully with his handkerchief, as
carefully adjusted them to his range of
vision. and sailed forth on his mission.
He was told when he reached Paterson
that Minnie Schafer lived a mile and q half
away - on Chestnut avenue near Cedar
street. He made his way over roads, of
rural rouphness and mud till he came to a
low frame building. Minnie s ,hafer, he
was told. lived on the lower floor with her
mother. In response to his tap short,
round, huckster-like, yellow-faced German
woman came to the door She was Minnie's
mother. He begged to be allowed to see
Minnie
"NeiD," was the response.
Would Mrs. Halter kindly consult Minnie
on that topic? The huckster- like looking
woman stepped through the kitchen, and
the modest reporter followed her in.
Through one room they passed into a
kitchen-like apartment. The woman
pressed back door leading into room
off this, and, turning to the modest young
man, observed, with strong German accent,
that Minnie was there. The rooms showed
all the signs of squalor. and were as untidy
as they were bare. The reporter looked
into a darkened closet-like apartment as
Ms. Halter pressed the door back. An
iron bedstead and four-legged stool were
the onlv occupants of this little room,
except Minnie and her baby. She lay with
her face to the door, and the baby rubbing
its nose with its little re clenched fists,
behind her - near the wall. Minnie was
very weak, and far from com Portable, but
she consented to talk The modest man
made no secret of his mission, and with
many hens and haws gently asked permits
sion to have photograph made of the
infant.
ooh no | returned Minnie plaintively.
"It'd be shame-peor innocent little
thing-to have its picture in the papers be
fore it Is week old"
The modest reporter assured her that no
child in the world had ever yet had the dis
tinction of a newspaper portrait thrust
upon it at so tender an age, and feelingly
appealed to the wo mans ambition. But
she was obdurate. She only Rugged the
babe to her breast and made another OBJ
servation about 1t being ga poor innocent
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little thing" hadn't as good right to have
its picture taken as any other fellow.
6 You will let me see it, at any rate"
ventured the modest reporter.
Minnie was not averse to that. He was
particularly solicitious to see the color of
its eyes, It was too dark to make that pos
sible, and he moved back the bed-quilts
stretched over the window, 30 that the full
glow Of sunlight fell upon the little ones
face. The strong light made the little one
blink. but the modest reporter was too
intent on the effort to direct the nozzle of
the smob e-stack in the top of bis hat upon
q straight line with the end of the puliDgs
nose, to notice its discontinue.
ssAh," he observed s.It's eyes seem to
be of very uncertain hue"
He did not say this, however, till he was
satisfied that the sawed-off smoke-stack in
the crown of his hat had been on a straight
line with the tip of the baby's nose. Tn en-
he dropped the curtain 30 as to shut out the
sunlight again, and after learning from
Minnie that she was too sick TO think
about whether she would try TO make
Keeper Laverty provide for the,young one,
babe her good day.
His face was as much aglow as his face
can ever be, when he strobe into the edito-
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ssDid you get that photograph r. was the
first eager enquiry put to him.
He took off his hat, and after rafting at
the machine fixed to its crown, drew forth
section of glass that looked as though it
had been smoked. But the photographed
portrait of the baby was on it. The
TATTLRB has had the photograph magnifed
and reproduced and presents it to its
readers in this column.
Minnie's other little child was playing
around the room She claims that its
father was her husband who had been
missing for some time. The new baby had
its eyes open. They were pictures of vacant
mindedness. Itais female, of fair size and
chubby. The modest reporter learned be-
fore he came away that Mrs. Haller's last
husband had just died of consumption, and
that he had been put away in his grave
only two or three days before the babe
made its appearance in the world. The
household is supported by Mrs. Haller's
industry at the wash tub.