Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-11
A CHARIOT FOR BABY.
Why Papa is So Very Particular in
Purchasing 1t at the Store.
NEW Mammals ARE NOT so POMPOUS
The Trials of Clerk in Selling Baby Car.
riages to Parents.
1T DISPLAYS, SOME HUMAN NATURE

An order for 5000 tons Of steel rails may
be written in six lines on an Office letterhesd
sheet, or If given orally, the transaction il
over in three minutes.
A Pittsburg iron manufacturer picks out
a 50, 900 diamond without ceremony, and
hands the jeweler his check without COM
ment.
The Pittsburg Club swell considers it
bore to be measured for his new full-dress
suit, and submits to the operation silently
and lmpatiently.
Even 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 $15, and the purchaser papa-for-
the-first-time, and the importance OF the
transaction, 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 ulti-
mate pride with which he sets aside the car
riage as his-why, it becomes business
event of vastly more consequence than steel
rails, diamonds, and costly apparel all put
together in one package.
NEW PAPAs ARE PARTICULAR.
'Tts the most trying thing we have got
to pass through in the course of . day, said
the clerk of a variety store yesterday, in
speaking Of the patience necessary to make
sale of baby buggy. 81 would sooner
stand all day at the glove counter OF dry
goods store than sell single baby carriage.
If the purchaser is man can tell before
be has spoken three words whether he
has a family of children, or if he
is here on behalf of his frst-born. Nine
cases out of ten it is the latter. Next time
a new baby-buggy is needed in that family
the wife has to come for it. the novelty OF
making such a 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. will
Tootsie not fall out of so big a bed?'
Won't red sunshades hurt Winnie's eyes?'
Cant you put mirror attachment in
front so 1 can see what the Bobby is doing
while 1 push behind?' I'm fraid the
tiny red-headed angel will push his big feet
through that thin flooring board and get
them caught in the wheelsP
elm the last instance" said the clerk, "I
felt like telling the doting papa that for fear
the blessed seraph's whole body should slip
through the same hole, we would supply a
strap, fastened to the roof of the buggy, q
loop in which would nicely fit the baby's
neck, thus saving precious life in case the
big feet should bore their way through the
floor.
ALToGETHER DIFFERENT CASES.
''I 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 infammabie wood in
the buggy, pays for It and departs in few
minutes.
"Now it's altogether different with the
mother-for-the-frst-tim who comes here to
select triumphal chariot for her darling.
All, I like to attend her, and she may stay
all afternoon il she wishes. Coy, difident
and cautious at first about making her ideas
and wants known, she gradually unfolds
like a flower of the morn
ing in her work of love. It
is charming to watch her eagerness in the
matter, or the tenderness with which she
feels the downy cushions. Some young
mothers, still unable to control the blush Of
commingled pleasure and shyness, that in
dicates unfamiliarity with her new expert
ence, bring their babies with them. It
simply surpasses the powers of an Amelia
Rives to gush over the pretty way she fits
the baby in the buggy and softly wheels 1t
to and fro the whole length OF the store to
see how it goes.
"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 matron in the most matter-offact
way leaves this order: Send to my resi-
dence new baby buggy, not quite so gor-
geous as the last little heavier in axles,
and just about the same size as the one be-
fore the last, which my husband purchased.
I am not particular about trimmings.'"