Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-07

robus,o soprano in a Wagner chorus.
The baby didn't want to be. dandled. 1T
didn't intend to be goo-gooed. 1t resented
all such flim-f1amming methods. 1t want
ed to yell. and it yelled. The mother
finally tried spanking, and that was no
good. either.
wound up for twenty-four hours
growled a demonstrating man. probably
q bachelor, sitting a few seats behind.
and he touched the button and stepped
off to wait for the next car.
'Deary me! It's a wonder mothers
wouldn't keep that kline of children at
holne!' said IN exceedingly thin-faced
woman with poppies in her bonnet. She
looked very indignant over the baby's
conduct.
Ought t. git dat kid a megaphone!"
remarked the tinsmith on the rear plat
form, darling savage glances at the
tired-looking woman and the tireless
baby.
oh. wouldn't do a thing to that one
if | owned it and a Slap-stick at the same
tin1e!" said the dapper-looking elderly
man with the white side whiskers, on the
front seat of the second car.
Say why didn't you tell us you was
runnin' orphan asylum ears on this line?'
said the plumber on the rear seat. adj
dl essing the conductor. Dye t'ink we
git oul nickels wort wit a bunch like
that a-shootin' it into us de hull trip?'
It's a wonder somebody doesn't tell
that woman that there's a pin sticking
into her baby somewhere" remarked the
beautiful young girl to her chum.
The baby want a drink of water
that's what ails it," said her chum, who
was fully eighteen years old, and ought
thereto"e to have known all about such
matters.
"'An' de War Amt Over Yit,'"
hummcd the darby with the guitar who
had q whole seat to himself.
Up to this time the short, very stout,
huge-headed, straggly mustached ma-1
sitting directly behind the woman with
the baby had simply regarded the whole
performance with an amused smile. The
yelling of the baby didn't seem to worry
him at all. He didn't look like a mar
possessed of such ~superluities as nerves.
anyhow. Finally he leaned over until
his head was right close to the deep,
cavernous mouth exhibited by the howl
ing ABBY. and. chucking the infant under
it's rapidly waving chin, he remarked in
q deep. bass voice:
"Goo-goo-ums!"
"WoW-Ow-wow!" replied the baby,
without paying any attention whatsoever
to the very stout a The latter again
chucked the infant under the chin, say
ing:
"Tumpsey-wumpsey!!"
This time the baby ceased it's bowling
long enoug to get it's eyes open, so that
IT could see the very stout man.
"WOketsey-toketsey!" said the fat man,
continuing his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tactics.
The baby looked him over and gradu-
ally let up. When it arrived at the con-
vulsive stage, where it looked doubtful
whether it was going to quit for good or
start in all over again, the big man
reached over and gently lifted the kid
from it's mothers arms.
"up-se-disey!!" he battered, tossing the
now growing infant in the air. "Whool-
se-disey!" ..@ .s-#
The infant was actually gurgling with
JOY by this time. and the eyes of all the
rest OF the passengers We're on the very
stout %hypnotist of the young one.
Thus. for about seven blocks. United
States Senator William f. Mason handled
the growing baby. and the young one
positively began to yell again as soon as
ne, after touching the button. handed f.
back to it's mother preparatory to geItine.
off. "
You did that pretty well. Senator,
salu a man who got off the car at the
same time Mr.. Mason debarked.
NO better than 1 ought to- -replie,,
senator Mason, with an expansive snoila
We peen in politics a long while. an,y
mace a good many campaigns. and look
at the size of the state I've had to prar-
tice I'M" VII. W piac-
Then the Illinois man passed on sm;,
ing refectively. ~ '"' 'NH''