Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-25
Travelling With Children.
0Harrer's PaZar.)

(Harpers B3Zar)
'Whv do these babies all cry soY ask
ed a wearied excursionist OF his nelghDor'
every baby on this car Is crying
Tine man questioned happened to be
medical student and close observer. Ills
quick eye glanced from child to chiid:
Don't YOU see" he answered, III 10
because every child here is miserably un,
comfortable. Tine parents are Just tlreu
out and the strongest of them are carry
ing the babies all twistywise. 49,.
il was as he said. Why should not lhe
moor babies be complaining. held in arms
trerabIin9 with fatigue? Yet where else
could .hey lave been LAID! Ihere 10 h'
other place provided. -.
A little later in that same journey an
other family party entered the car hele'
escorted by mother father, anu t ,-a,
was 2 baby enjoying a makeSmit uaEe,.
ling seat that anticipated the DAY WIZ
all corpOratiOns will see nj 10 proNluc
some such device 10 meet the einel 49, ~,
of travelling with child. OF COURSE, ina
narticular baby may have been a nalNel
~ good nature to begin with, put the
natural inference is that the virtue ldy
In the basket wherein IL was carried
where il was kept during the Whole JUui
ney-for the makeshlft seat was ilgi.,s
a carving basket, a common Dlsslle, =,
thot really seemed too matter OF iaCt "
cause such magic results. IL was hlieu
with soft pads: IL was just long ehVusl
10 hold the baby. which might nave Desh
anywhere from > 10 months Olu, 80
inst short enough for easy carrying.
/ A. the car was crowded. the nurse
At rrgt sat with the basket on ne.
/ knees until IL could be placed i'm the seat
| beside her and opposite the parents. /,
| Was plain that the basket ana the pdpy
were old companions. Tor II was az 49,, ho'i !,
! there as one IN his own castle Nhen y
wanted 10 sit up the curving Dasket-siu '.
/ held IL steady as no arms cOuld nav
/ Llld and when sleep OVercame the lltlit
/ creature II tumbled It's small heavy hea'
/ over into its pads and closed us eye
TIE motion OF the cars. broken py sn'
/ unvieldiug basket. was TO that papy pu
/ q nt-aeant lullaby. There was no uhqhv
/ In its easy resting-place, ana When =
I woke IL was 20 still lie there pla'lu an
! smiling. kicking its bare ieet conlenteulS
Except when II was fed, ana ior 10y
ing word and smile now anu Shote: 90,
was let alone-that shibboleth or soo'
nursing. II was showed nothing OUT
The window or in the car. and what WI
evidently the old, accustomed idtt.
and faVCrite doll were us Ohiy ~
| things, Thus the unaccustomeu ~. -,
ment and motion, the new - h,, ,be CT Fam
/ strange place were nulilied by 'le tl ~
iiar belongings. The result was. TINS II
nc saving. "a perfectly placid baDy uoiii
A., hundred miles without cry. but VII
Wool -uIgeon cooings and httenllke sun
hers and big. restful eyes, whlch tolu
. the quiet mind behind II you rants we,
! ,akc II and run" as these parchts w
r,loning. but why not run after the san
fashion-with baby, as 1t were uh"
your cloak? - o,d hoo,
Z 'The less a baby feels. sees, and hea
= I'm it's journeyings the less va cr,a
: ] Tor is baby the only gamer by slItHo
> - che whose baby cries least IN traVt
iing IL indeed the one whose Temporal
neishbors rise up and call her blessed