Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28

'Oh, responded the shop girl, 81
| don't need any pastime, except Sun
| days, when We all go down to Staten
island and take dinner with mamma g
sister.'
The old lady patted the shop girls
hand fondly and smiled.
''1 on are good young woman - said
she. 81 shall see you again. You de-
serve good and rich husband. And
who knows! Perhaps you'll get one.
| Wen see, we II see.''
The good creature went out to her car
riaGs.
Some New York girls are quick enough
to satisfy anybody. There was q little,
young thing, with childlike eyes aud u
positively infentile smile buying q baby
carriage in store on Fourteenth street.
She might have been sixteen, but the
smart and painfully blonde clerk who
was exhibiting the vehicles for her, was
sure that she was not yet out Of boarding
school. She was in search Il very par
ticular sort OF carriage-ops That had q
large canopy that worked Up Sand down
like the top of a buggy. The clerk as
sured her that such baby carriages were
not only never made. but that they
would be undesirable. The young thing
huShCd ~ tIAsr the clerk
that she had seen just such carriages,
and that she consid er ed them superior to
any other kind. He would please, she
hoped, permit her to have her prefer
ence in the matter. The dreadfulIy
blonde clerk, somewhat nettled that one
so young should presume TO oppose his
experienced taste in baby carriages, car
riei the argument still further, and
after insinuating that he had been in the
business long enough to know what was
appropriate and stylish, he suggested to
the girl that her mother should come and
select her own baby car riage.
my mother,' exclaimed the girl.
'What do you mean? What has my
mother got to do with ii?''
'Why,' said the clerk, sthe car
rage is tor your mothers baby, Isn't
it?''
NO. responded the gIrl-wife,
curtly, tossing her head as she spoke,
ats for my own baby
The blonde clerk blushed violently for
several seconds, and then said in a mild
voice that he could have such a carriage
as the young lady desired made to order.
A pair of horses attached to q hand.
. some coupe took fright in Fifth avenue.
and, as they jumped forward, their
his reins and away went the brutes at a
gait that threatened disaster and prob
able loss of life. People scattered to
the right and left, but one man stepped
from the sidewalk into the street.
planted himself in front of the horses.
and when they attempted to swerve to
one side and avoid him he caught one OF
their brides and almost dragged them
down on their launches by tremendous
pull. As the coupe came to a s,andstill
the door opened and an elegantly dressed
ana beautiful young woman stepped to
the pavement. She looked at her res
curer. He lifted his hat and expressed q
hope that the lady was in no way in
jured. He was tall, elear-eyed, hand
some young man. and he was just az
calm as though he had not rIsked his life
q moment before, not even a flush of ex.
citement indicating that he was dis.
turbed. The young lady disoernsd at
glance that he,was genuine hero, and
instantly a romantic sentiment sprang
into her breast. She thanked HIM with
well selected words, but there
was look in her eyes that must
have affected him. 1t was O look of
deep interest. She asked for his card,
and he tried to svade the request, but
the crowd was listening and she was