The record-union., 1896-08-02

IstF OudrIeS Mel Tor rector! Tn1S Is
saying much for the future of st. Paups,
as Mr.. Mdel is we'll known as a man of
lndonilta'ble persev eranoe and energy.
He is a splendid musician also, and has
said that he will have a choir of seven
ty-five or one hundred voices in the
church when he takes charge. 1 have
not the slightest doubt that he will do
as he says, as he generally does carry
out any plan Of action upon which he
sets his will. If he does as much for
this parish as he has for that of Sausa-
Ito, st. Paul's people may congratulate
themselves upon the wisdom OF their
choice.
1t appears that the Rev. Lewis de Lew
has been called to fill a vacancy ait
Suisun.
E. w. Maslin is in Sacramento for a
short stay on business. Mrs. Maslin,
who lately buried her mother, Mrs.
Way, is now staying at place just be-
yond Auburn and is quite ILL.,
One evening as I sat upon the cool
front porch of a friend enjoying a quiet
chat after the arduous duties of the
day, and idly noticing the people who
passed, my friend suddenly exclaimed:
Isn't that child in a dolls carriage?"
| looked across the street in the direc-
ton indicated by her nod, and saw that
it was only an old shioned baby
coach, which if you remember used to
be built on a much smaller scale than
they are now. This brought on a dis
cussion as TO improvements that had
been made in this line, and memory
carried US back to childish days, and
we recounted to each other remem-
brances of ways and means then and
now, recalling the mode of perambula-
ton for the infant generation of that
time, and from then up to the present
There was the funny little buggy"
with oblong wooden body, carriage top
that was manipulated as are the doc
tors gigs of to-day, by an elbow on
either side. Two wheels at the back,
and an iron rest in front, shaped like
a letter V, the point resting on the
ground. The little vehicle was propelled
from the front by a tongue, at the end
or winch was cross piece on which to
rest the fingers. When the tongue was
lifted the whole frame lifted with it.
The lives of infants hung in the bal
ance in those days, and many a child
has been unceremoniouSly dumped out
at the side of the road by attendant or
non-attendant sisters and nurse girls
for 1t was a decided bit of scien tifc
ability that could propel one of these
curious perambulators in a straight
line, so strong a propensity had they
for describing Hogarth's line of beauty
The first Improvement on this was a
front wheel in place of the iron rest.
Basket and wicker work followed, then
phaeton top supplanted the enameled
cloth buggy top. Two front wheels fol-
lowed the single wheel, after which the
tongue gave place to more modern
handles, and so on down the line till
now the long suffering infant of those
halcyon days we SO often hear and read
about would not recognize from its own
experience the elegant modern baby
carriage of to-day, large enough to hold
two infants comfortably, furnished with
easy springs, soft velvet upholstery. ad-
Unstable handles and parasol tops, and
last, to crown all, the noiseless rubber
tire, as belonging to the same class of
vehicle in which many of his baby days
were passed. The good old days. GER
tanly could not offer to the little ones
at least the comforts they enjoy in this
day and generation.
Mrs. Addie Carter, once the leading
contralto Of Sacramento, and always a
great favorite in musical circles at
home and abroad, has returned from
visit to San Francisco.
POLLY OLIVER