Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-17
BABY'S OLD CARRIAGE.
IT SOMETIMES COMES TO STRANGE
USES AFTER BEING SOLD.

USES AFTER BEING SOLD.
New ores Block the Streets-It Is Almost
Impossible to Sec the Window Displays
in WasAt.stor Because OF the Obstruc-
tions-A Sufferers Wall
Baby carriages, doubtless, are useful and
acceptable at times, looked upon as an i'm
portant article requisite TO first class house
keeping, and frequently called into service N
married life. There are a number of ways
in which this diminutive vehicle can be
utilized, and at times they are put TO novel
use. 1t is generally believed that they were
introduced for the purpose of relieving wor-
ried mothers in caring for their infants and
to taking the place of the cradle, that the
child might be rolled around within or out
side of doors instead OF being constantly re-
ouired to submit to the rocking process. 1t
was also accepted as an easy aud handy way
of TRANSPORTING the child when the parents
went out for walk or visit or 10 give the
babe an airing under its nurses care. But
facts tend to prove that there has been
a wide departure in the use OF the car
rage from that contemplated when first IN
troduced for family favor and patronage.
TEE MIGHTY FALLEN
1t can now be seen In the service Of the
washerwoman hauling dirty clothes through
the street or taking home those that have IN
dergoue the laundry treatment and come
forth purified and clean. An old crab man
navigates the streets of the city, particularly
during the early hours OF the night, and car
ries his marine product in a little go-cart that
NAV IN its best DAYS have ridden senator's
daughter Or some ether dignitarys child.
Probably the crabs are no sweeter on this
account, but the purveyor finds it an easy
way getting around with Eyer devil crabs.
An old cake and lemonade man, whose best
customers renswsboys AID bootbiacks, trans
ports his cargo in basket body car, once
lined with royal purple satin, but now
streaked, striped and begrined with a mix
ture OF dirt and grease. Going through the
market house any morning except Sunday,
there will be seen any number of these small
outfits, once kept for children, now made
into truck wagons, filed with produce, with
an able bodied boy testing his propelling
powers in keeping them free of the crowd,
and when the load is complete pushing II TO
the objective point for the purpose of dis
charging the consignment of freight for the
larder.
These cases will be sufficient to show that
| the baby carriage has worked itself into a
much more extended field of usefulness than
could have been imagined years ago. But
while it saves arms, relieves mothers, and
| gives nurses abundance Of time to take OBJ
servations, hirt, and enjoy themselves gem
orally and very often at the risk Of the
| health if not the life OF the little one given
| into their charge to tend and watch, it also
is Objectionable in some respects. Mothers,
with rare exceptions, are proud of their
babes, and those who can afford it expend
time and money in making the infants look
as pretty as possible, especially when dressed
| for the street They are attired IL their
most attractive dress, placed in fresh and
! nice looking toften handsome) carriage,
topped out with beautiful and frequently
! costly, cover, then, with the nurse in clean
white apron over neat dress and white cap,
started off for the forenoon, or, as it some
| times turns out, the entire day. The mother
| may give instructions about the distance 70
be travelled or boundaries within which the
child is expected to be kept, but after the
nurse disappears from sight she exercises her
own Judgment and goes Just where inclined.
WHY THEY Kick
w
me forg' said a man trying TO work his way
I'D Seventh street yesterday afternoon, and
! who had been summarily halted by baby
carriage. The girl was pushing it along In
/ different with whom it collided, not at all
bothered by the Inconvenience she made for
| others, giving no attention to the child, but
| completely taken up with the display IN the
| store windows So deeply was she absorbed
| in what she found there, that she had nearly
/ upset the foot passenger above referred to
! before she knew it.
| Just two squares further down the street
! the entire travel on the sidewalk was blocked
/ in the same way, with the difference that
there were three carriages packed together,
| and the defiant and impudent nurses refused
/ TO open up a thoroughfare until passing
/ policeman promised TO show them the way &c
! the nearest station house, when, grunbaingiy,
1 they yielded, and, instead of travelling three
( abreast, came down 10 single file.
Look at my window said an avenua
! ieyeler. How can any one get near enough
/ TO see what have on exhibition theref' In
/ front of it were couple of baby carriages
| with the nurses at the handles, and making a
! complete obstruction of the entire front. Any
person wishing TO see in the window had &c
stand back of the carriages and take a long
| distance view Nothing was said to the per
! ambulating party, but the merchant sug
! gested that it was an easy way for people tc
! get rid of the noise, bother and attention OF
/ their children, BY turning them over TO nurses
/ to carry out into the street to annoy some
/ BODY else and interfere with business. He
! thought that baby carriages should be pro-
hibited from coming on 10 the business streets
| OF the city.
| Other instances might be referred 20, but
this is sufficient 70 show that the baby car
riages, while useful and an important ad-
( j1ncs to housekeeping, can also be trouble
some and at times very much in tne way