Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-07
CITY AND DISTRICT.
BABIES IN rae PARKS.
How the Little Charges Enjoy Them.
selves I'm the City's Breathing spots.

selves I'm the City's Breathing Spots.
FLOWERS AND BABIES ssowISs TOGETHER IN The
sUFT SPRING aIR-HtBfrs or BABIES WHEN OUT
AIRfSG-rHE GossIPTSG MUSES. AND THE INTER
KsTED pAssrRs-BY-BrCcASExEIssY oUSssrkRs
The nursery brigade has taken possession OF the
parks. There are nurses. and carriages and babies
IN abuudanes The Iast-named, though the
smallest Is really the motive for the entire display.
IL there were no babies there would certainly be
no nurses or baby carriages IL seems ridiculous
that such small. helpless creatures should be able
20 do SO much They, In fact, change the whole
APPEARANCE OF the park They do even
more than Col Wilson's men, who are
busy from morning TO night trimming the
turf, and preparing the nower beds There
after while In the frame work OF green there APP
pear flashing jewels. First the SOFT yellow OF the
lavenders OF the hyaCnts, 10 be followed later In
the season with the tulips. roses. and so on. But
thing 50 fresh and sweet a. the babies. Even the
crusty old bachelor Is obliged to concede that
and although some bsbys face Suddenly ~ I grows
purple and shriil wall rends the soft air OF spring.
II must be admitted that, unlike the little flowers
resting quiet IN their soft beds, the babies are
not always peacefully inclined But. then, now
ers have no stomachs and are not dependent on
nursing bottles, and hence they are not afr1ieted
with the collie.
WHAT THE BABIES DO.
Ths babies, however, do not come out In the
parks 70 wrsstle with the collie They generally do
tnat at home perhaps selecting some period in the
early morning hours when everything IL quiet,
and the parents and nurses have nothing else to
do except TO sleep. But when they get their bath
in the morning and have eaten their breakfast
number two, ortheir luncheon number one, then
they are prepared TO meet the world
with . smiling face: The loitersr through
s sSs Psrs NJ, bright ~ spring days
many OF its phases. They gurge harmlessly while
they snatch az the sunbeams. or perhaps they en-
Then they yell just as the nurse Is at q critical
point in the gossip with other nurses and have TO
Probably In the predatory spirit OF Infants t6e1
reach cut and grasp property belonging TO an In
FAINT In an adjoining carriage. and the latter at
once raises the alarm and summons assistance.
EIFExrxScs IN TEE Park.
Ababy's experience In the park seems TO be quiet
and uneventful enough, but It Is as full OF ad-
venture and thrilling incidents as that OF a
privateer on the ocean. They are In that stage OF
development In which there Is no such q thing
is TO take what they can lay their hands on and
give up nothing. They regard neighboring babies
with indifference, II not with actual hostility, ard
they are absorbed in the one pursuit OF getting
things In their mouths They look so In
nocent and sweet and gentle, while pursuing
except fathers and mothers il deceived Many an
Vnsuspecting oatcheor has brought down upon
fusfon and transformed a peaceful city park into
Allowing mob OF babies In carriages by Offering
MS watchcnain for some particularly handsome
permanent gift, but when the owner endeavors
70 proceed on bis stroll with his watch chain the
smiling, lovely face IL changed In an instant The
arrighted bateheior hears an angry howl which is
echoed by all the neighboring babies. There is a
Wild rush Of nurses and the bachelor Is fairly
Stampeded out OF the park. The babies are used
such little diversions In their lives and peace
Is soon restored The purses are also accustomed
10 interruptions In the tide OF gossip and that is
also resumed.
HksfKs AND FtowyRs GROWING pAuy
Life In the park these beautiful spring days
has Its ups and downs but there is much
progress The nurserymen ind their charges
thriving and growing. and the nurses from
day 10 day note similar changes in the babies !
under their care. There are alarms aooCt measles
and whooping cough and other inIanttie diseases |
there Is rivalry TO clothes there contentious
about seats and there are lengthy discussions
family Affairs and other matters OF interest ain |
high life down stairs" The babies grow brown |
and rosy In the healthy life out OF doors, and when
the hot breath OF summer Is felt then some are |
hurried To the mountains and the sea-shore, and
the parks are comparatively deserted until the |
Fall