The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27


trees-could he have known that his sons.
with Unborn Scots dauntlessness. flung the
flag to the breeze, over their hearthstone in
ashes.
No chapter of human interest, Ii may
safely be claimed, is fuller of entertain
ment than the events which center in old
book shops.
The Return of Look at this" said
the Books. a pleased-looking gen
tleman, holding up
rusty old brown leather-bound book, with
some faint traces of gold-tooling still on the
covers. i've been looking for this book.
and its brothers and sisters, for more than
twenty-five years-and here it is, with nine
more like It. All old books come round to
those who wait
What is it, and why have you wanted
it?'' asked the other man.
when nv mother was a little girl" the
man of enthusiasm explained her father
died-in the Notwithstanding a good book
case full of books. unusual for those days
in Indiana. After awhile the books came
into the possession OF uncle who did not
care much for books. and the little library
went to pieces. few of the volumes now
being held sacred in our family. All these
years. my mother has mourned for Mich
olson's Encyclopedia, and this is the book,
with these other volumes-not a complete
set, however. Ii is, as the title page states,
AN American Edition of the British Ency-
clopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.
comprising an Accurate and Popular View
of the Present Improved State of Human
knowledge, compiled and edited by Will
liam Nicholson, of England, and reprinted
in America in 1918 by Mitchell. Ames &
White. Philadelphia; w. Brown, Printer.
Prune street.
Hello" the other man said "listen to
this from Nicholson's Agriculture: Cows
should be MIXED three times day, if fully
fed, throughout the summer What kind of
old British nonsense is that?"
Don't YOU try TO make game Of Nichol-
sons Encyclopedia" answered the man
who had just found the old book. Give it
to me; must hurry home with these books
and show them to my mother"
Along the streets, on market days, the in
nocent passer-by is impressed with the
great value of the baby buggy as a general
domestic convenience.
The Basket The number of baby
on Wheels. carriages w h 1 c h ar c
trundled empty to mar
ket to be filled with meat. vegetables and
fruits, and then trundled home again,
would no doubt, run up into the hundreds,
IL some interested person should enumerate
them as they passed a given point. Baby
buggy marketing has its useful phase, be it
freely admitted; and it has a picturesque
and a humorous side, as we'll In many
cases the baby that owns the buggy goes to
market, too and rides home again uncom-
fortaby damned I'm by all varieties of edi-
bles. Here goes a pretty little red-haired
baby, noddng pleasantly over a decorative
basket of lettuce. The next baby buggy con-
tains nothing but two enormous watermel-
ons humping back and forth in the little We
hicle. After that, come two babies in one
pretty willow cab, their little helpless laps
loaded with big ears of corn. A sleeping
black baby, In its little carriage, follows,
packed in to suffocation almost, with mis-
cellaneous vegetables, tomatoes in the ma
jority. Then. in line, appears large size
baby carriage, boarding house baby S
equipage, no doubt, as IL is heaped to danger
point with all manner of garden truck, and
is flanked by soap-box cart, pulled by a
small boy. A huge watermelon fills the soap
box cart, stuffed in, TO make it steady, by
great ears of corn. Family washings go by
in baby buggies, too, at market time; and
then come back empty, TO roam happily
among the stalls and roll up on the heels of
disinterested ramblers. One morning. a
genial and accommodating clergyman was
seen in the baby buggy procession, gravely
trundling the family lace curtains to a near
by laundry.