Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-06-07
Girl Babies are y y =
- Plentiful This Spring.

Is there anything in the world quite 50
pretty and loyable and dainty and sweet
rs 4 little girl: She is the flower Of the
human race, endowed with a winsome-
ness and a charm which captiyate the
most st0ny-hearred, and wherever She
takes her tripping footsteps she finds
nothing but answering smiles and wei
coming giadneSs
Thesa soft. warm spring days. when
| the apple trees put forth their SOFT snow
OF blossoms and the lilacS open their
ipert-Gp sweetness. and the garden beds
are agicw with tulips ana jonquils, and
the shady corners hold the fragile bells
OF the lilies of the valley. just waiting
| FOR fairy breath TO break into a chime
| whose sound can only be heard by those
whose ears ere attuned to such delicate
music-when the elms and the naples
and the dainty birches and willows pu.
| on their sgmmer garb of coolest, shinl-
| merng green, then the little girls bios
som forth, too. They are never 50 much
! IN evidence in the wintry days, when
/ heavy clothes hamper their airy move
ments and velvet b0nents confine their
! length of curls. but with the warm spriug
| days they come forth like a beyy of but
| terIiies. and the shady residence streets
are gay with them Such pretty little
frockS they wear, such dear little cum
| ming shoes and such tOwer-laden hats.
| from beneath which the charming little
faces peep cat.
| There isn't a prettier sight in all the
town than may be seen on juneau ave-
| Hu" any forenoon. when the morning sey-
! sion of a certain private school is over
| and the little folk come tripping out.
| The other day the sidewalk near All
saints gray walls was filled with little
girls going home from school. They
We're tiny LITTLE maidens. ,, & and maybe
years Old. They walked in groups of
| two and three and four, golden heads
| and brown bent together over some of
the mighty problems of school life Some
! Jumped the rope and some hoped back
wards on one foot, telling with excited
gesture of something wonderful and out
ot-the common that had happened, and
two of the dearest little girls held be-
tween them a bit Of Il lunch basket.
about as big as biscuit which evident
~ played an important part in the
mornings doingS. In all the group of
fifteen or more there wasn't an unhappy
face nor fretful one 1t was like a
shower Of pure happiness and delight,
absolutely unalloyed-a bit of the I'M
shadowed beauty of life only TO be
found III the arcady of childhood.
The good old stork has been particular
ly partiarto girl babies this spring, and
hosts of homes have welcomed a little
now daughter, but one little maid, whose
blue eyes first opened in wonder and be-
Wilderment one March morning, was sin
gled out from among all the others to re-
ceivc an especial and additional wei
come sent 10y Dame Nature herself. 1t
was in a little white room in hospital
near the blue lake that she first saw the
light. and hardly had the sun risen ont
of the water when a little brown bird
iuttpred down the yentilatiug shaft lead
ing to the room. and burst forth into the
prcttiest song, telling the wee baby of
. IL
Of her coming. The twitterng bird
notes We're almost the first sounds tile
little girl heard, and perhaps she under
stood what the little bird said; ut any
rate. she smiled. And every day, for a
week or more, the little brown bird came
down the shaft and sang his morning
greeting TO the blue-eyed baby girl.
Just as an instance of the fact that
all the world is at the service Of lit
tie girl. if she stand in need of it, may
be told a little story Of this same baby.
She goes ont for a ride every morning
in a little white chariot where she re-
| poses in state. enScOnced in soft downy
nest. Her mothers favorite walk when4
she takes the baby out for these excur-
Sions lies along the shady streets in
the first ward and it is necessary 90 cross
Juneau avenue, now in a desperate state
Of upset. 1t isn't an easy thing to get
rbe pcrambulator down the steep step
from the sidewalk into the road and up
again GA the other side, and the other
morning. while the baby's mother was
struggling with the problem, one Of the
meu at work on the street came forward
with a police, Let me help, maam,
and he took hold of the little carriage
and brought it down in safety, and
helped it UP again after they crossed
the street, without so much as the slight
est jar to Miss Baby The mother
thanked him for his courtesy. and he
said. There's no pleasure so great
ma'am. az to do a service for the tiny
people, and the mother surmised that
| hc had a little daughter OF his own at
home.