The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-12
BABIES CHARlOTS.


Wheeled Palaces for the First Born
Papa's ExtraYasant Purchase.
An order for 5000 tons OF steel rails may
be written in six lirssS on an office letterhead
sheet or if given orally the transaction is
over in three minutes
An iron manufacturer picks out $4,000
diamond without ceremony and hands the
ieweler his check without comment
The club swell considers it O bore to be
measured for his new full dress suit, and sub
mits to the operation silently and inlpatieSltly.
Even q fashionable woman selects the ma
terial for her princely trousseau with an off,
handed air Of business altogether foreign to
sentiment.
But let the purchase be a baby's carriage for
S12 or SIS, and the purchaser papa for the
first time, and the Importance OF the trans
action, the lordly manner Of the buyer, his
pompous request to be shown the whole stock,
his disposition to point out single scratch
on the little vehicle and the ultimate pride
with which he sets aside the carriage as his
why. it becomes business event Of vastly
more consequence than steel rails. diamonds
and costly apparel all put together in one
package.
Its the most trying thing we have got to
pass through in the course Of day" said the
clerk of q variety store, in speaking OF the
patience necessary to make sale OF baby
buggy. u would sooner stand all day at the
glove counter of dry goods store than sell a
single baby carriage. If the purchaser is
man can tell before he has spoken three
words whether he has a family OF Children
or il he is here on behalf OF his first born.
Nine cases out of ten it is the latter. Next
time new baby buggy IS needed IN that
fa1lly the wife has to come for it; the novel
ty of making such q purchase has by that
time worn off for the father.
"Of all idiotic questions we have to an
swer the young father buying his first baby
carriage, no other article of commerce, trade
or manufacture would suggest. VIII loot
sic not fall out of so big bedf Wont red
sunshades hurt Winnes eyeST Can't YOU
put mirror attachment in front so can
see what the Bobby IS while l push behindf
I'm afraid the tiny red headed angel will
push his big feet through that thin flooring
board and get them caught in the wheels
I'm the last instance" said the clerk, u
felt like telling the doting papa that for fear
the blessed seraph'S whole body should slip
through the same hole we would supply
strap fastened to the roof Of the buggy, a
loop in which would nicely ft the baby's
neck, thus saving precious life in case the
big feet should bore their way through the
floor.
Il like to wait on man who has family
Of eight or nine children. He has bought
buggies before, and as they eventually be-
come kindling wood he merely asks for an
extra good quality of infamnable wood in
the buggy, pays for it and departs in few
minutes.
''Oh, yes, the world Is the same all over.
Even that affectionate mother could have
foreseen her shadow in the dim, distant fu-
ture, were she to come back, as some fat,
practical n1atron in the most matter-of-fact
way leaves this order: Send TO my residence
new baby buggy, not quite so gorgeous as
the last, q little heavier in a1les, and just
about the same size as the one before the last,
which my husband purchased. Il am not par
ticular about trimmings. '"-Pittsburg Dis
patch.