The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-05-05
THE MOTHERS VAIL.
Small Girl Is as Trying as Small
Boy. 1t Seems.


Boy. 1t Seems.
They were in a Chicago sire ct car
and 1t was not long before all tho
passengers were listening to a tale
If woe brcathcd into her friends
sympathetic ear by the woman in the
.urtrimmed ulster.
"Everybody tells YOU " ait till
She walks and talks, and then she'll
&c comfort to you,'" she Was say
ne, "but for my part I'd almost
rather she'd remain baby. never
nave any comfort any more. sun
lays, when Ed is home 90 get a
chance to draw straight breath.
out all the rest of the week she
drives me nearly distracted. He
inds that about the second hour Of
ler company lacks the charm that
he first had, and then say: We'll,
what do you think of me? | have
t this way all week.
">ho gets on his knee aHd want:
10 ride = cock-hOrso to Ranbmy
ross, and he keeps that up until
both legs are so tired that he cannot
tide her any more. Then she says:
Papa, git down. She wants him TO
lie on the carpet If he says no,
papa'S busy she comes to me, takes
NE by the hand and leads me to him
TO intercede with him. He gets down
On the floor and she sits down on his
chest and bounces up and down there
till his ribs crack.
Then she wants to see the pick
shers.' You never know how many
pictures there are in a magazine till
you have young one about 2 years
DID, 1t is 'Wass sat? all the time.
"Then she is always into some
thing, You find the poker in bed
and your spool of thread under the
dressing case. She gets the scissors
and when you notice that she is very
quiet, you find her in the parlor
shipping the lace curtains.
"She has to have her walk out
every day when it is at all pleasant,
and just as she gets to the front door
she says: Mamma, cay.
"She's so heavy | can't carry her,
and she won't ride in her carriage.
If make her walk she throws her
self down on the ground and screams,
and | simply can't make up my mind
to take her across my lap and spank
ser in public So | bought her 8
little red wagon to push so that she
would walk along by herself Ant
that's as much bother as whole
circus caravan. She runs it off into
the gutter or down somebody's area
way and falls down after it herself
and how she has missed cracking
her skull | don't know.
"When she isn't falling down with
it or upsetting it and calling, Nam
ma, fick a waggie, she is mixing i
up with the feet of somebody, get
ting it tangled up in some woman
skirts and shouting, GO way, lady,
or nearly upsetting some man in
hurry to catch car.
"Ed never gets chance to rea'
the Sunday papers, and my only op
portunity to read is after she goes t
bed at night. | Try to teach her t
say her prayers.
"'Now | lay me-
"'Now / way me-
r "'Down to sleep
0 "Down q shreep. Wass Margi
! dom?
= "Margie's saying her prayers, lill
o good little girl. pray the Lord
{" 'Margie got her 'tockie otf?'
: Yes, Margie's got her stocking
> off. l pray the Lord
K "'Dollie got her 'tockie off, too?
l eyes, yes. pray the Lord
q "'P'ay Lor'. Dolly goin' shreeI
3 too?
/ Yes, dear. Now if Margie ism
d good girl mamma'llhave to spank
|, "'Pank Margio good? Pan
i dolly good"
d "I pray the Lord my soul to keep
o "'Soul keep
e Golf I should die
g 'Fi-she-di Mamma, dollie g
J 'tockie'-