San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-03-03
BABY'S OLD CARRIAGE.
IT SOMETIMES COMES TO STRANGE
USES AFTER BEING SOLD.
New Ones Block the Streets-It Is Almost
Impossible to See the Window Displays
in Washington Because of the Obstruc-
tions-A Sufferers Wall.

in Washington Because of the Obstruc-
tions-A Sufferers Wall.
Baby carriages, doubtless, are useful and
acceptable at times, looked upon an i'm
portant article requisite to first class house
keeping, and frequently called into service in
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
U taking the place of the cradle, that the
.hild might bc rolled around within or out
side of doors instead of being constantly re-
quired to submit to the rocking process II
was also accepted as an easy and handy way
of transporting the child when the parents
went out for a walk or a visit or to 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"
riage from that contemplated when first in.
PRODUCED for family favor and patronage.
THE MIGHTY FALLEN.
1t can now he seen in the service of the
waSherwoman hauling dirty clothes through
the street or taking home those that have I'M
dergone 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 little go-cart that
may i'll its best DAYS have ridden senator's
daughter or some other dignitaryS child.
Probably the crabs are no sweeter on this
account, but the purveyOr finds it an easy
way getting around with Yer devil crabs"
An old cake and lemonade man, whose best
custOmerSare newSboys and bOotblacks, trans
ports his cargo in basket body car, once
lined with royal purple satin, but now
streaked, striped and begrimed with mix
ture of dirt and grease. Going through the
market house any morning except Sunday,
there will he seen any number of these small
outfits, once kept for children, now made
into truck wagons, filled 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 it 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, flrt, and enjoy themselves gen
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 in their
most attractive dress, placed in fresh and
nice looking (Often .andsomel carriage
topped out with beautiful and frequently
costly cover, then, with the nurse i'll clean
white apron over a 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 to
be Travelled or boundaries within which the
IhIld 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.
What are you running that thing into
mepforr said a man trying TO work his way
up Seventh street yesterday afternoon, and
who had been summarily halted by a baby
carriage. The girl was pushing it along in
different with whom it collided, not at all
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 mpudent nurses refused
to open up a thOroUghfare until passin,
policeman promised to show them the way to
the nearest station house, when, grumblingly,
they yielded, and, instead of travelling three
abreast, came dow, to single file.
Look at my window" said an avenue
jeweler. How car any one get near enough
to see what have on exhibition there3' In
front of it were couple of baby carriages,
with the nurses at the handles, and making
complete obstruction of the entire front. Any
person wishing 10 see i'll the window had to
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 to
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-
hibted from coming on to the business streets
Of the city.
Other instances might be referred to, but
this is sufficient 10 show that the baby car
riages, while useful and an important adj
unct to housekeeping, can also be trouble
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