The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-03-14

and lace and rattan, for cheerful,
worldly-minded twins.
1t has never yet been discovered
what sort of vengeance a baby could
mete out to the parents who failed on
the carriage question, because those
devoted servitors nearly always antic-
ipated the infantile scorn and disgust
by procuring a brilliant, coy, up-to-
date trap for park and pavement use
well in advance of the first outing, and
so eager are the parents to please that
the baby carriage trade is increasing
every year. There is a woman in New
York who makes a living by upholster-
ing these charming conveniences, by
supplying pillows for the occupants
comfort, by draping canopies and max
ing down, silk, satin, wool and fur
robes for the fat, pink, lolling little
lords and ladies.
Every well-to-do BARN keeps at least
two carriages. One for summer and
one for winter use. The former is
made on the American, the latter on
the English pattern, and the very lat
est devices for comfort and conven-
fence in these two types of vehicles was
displayed by the assortment that
greeted Miss Cornelia Stuyvesant
Vanderbilt's appearance last August.
Among her christening gifts were
no less than ten beautiful little car
riages. There were smart little wheel
chairs for use when she grows a bit
l,,x 10
carriage, all of pure white wicker and
in the form of a swan on wheels. The
interior of this carriage is upholstered
in white silk, the coverlid is of swans
down and in his beak the stately wick
er bird holds the ends of white satin
ribbons that extend from the silk and
lace draped canopy.
Another very picturesque carriage
for this little lady's use had body of
wicker woven into shell and appro-
priately lined with pink silk, and her
winter chariot from London had a
shallow oval black body and black
wheels picked out in bright cherry
lines. On both sides of the body the
owners entwined initials are painted,
and inside the furnishings are done in
cherry satin. The seat and cushion
can be shifted so that the small occu-
pant can sit erect or lie at length, and
the hood of vanished leather can be
so drawn up that the whole of the in
terror is covered. The front half of the
carriage top, when the day is fine, folds
down fiat and inconspicuously in
front, while the rear half fixed in its
place is built of vanished leather up
held by iron supports painted cherry
red, and in the sides and back of the
rear hood plate-glass squares are set
to afford the baby light and fine
view.
This winter yet more interesting
little carriage has been brought out by
the manufacturers. 1t is a wee ham
som cab complete, with a handle in the
back at the top, whence the nursemaid
propels it along, and the juvenile pro-
prietor of one of these quaint traps
has pronounced it in broken English to
be the suggest thing he has yet tried.
Mothers who believe in the efficacy of
fresh air for their babies will prompt
ly indorse a new carriage for very lit
tie babies. 1t is a delicate, graceful
basket body on wheels. There is a
mechanism in the rear by which the
carriage is wound up, and when the
nurse has established herself under a
tree she sets the mechanism in action
and the body of the carriage sways
very gently back and forth until the
occupant is lulled to sleep.-Fanny En-
ders, in Chicago Record.