Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-29

| return It evidently thought my facial con-
| tortion intended for its amusement. SUI
veyed the mass of pink and white chup-
| biness with a growing sense OF alarm
| Here" / told myself, this won't do at
| all, you know. This is too much of a good
| thing. What in the deuce
| | started to run after the girl and reached
| the SignbOard which related to the seals
! Here the footpath DIVORCES to the roadway
and saw my girl getting into CAP stand
| ing near by
''Here-you," I shouted. Here, / want
| to-Come back, I tell you. What does
| this. Now, you see, here
| The girl pulled the shutters about the
| seat and waved a tiny bit of cambrice
"Adieu. m sieur," she said. Then she
| had the impudence to kiss her hand to me.
| At the same time she spoke to the cabble,
| who cut his inoffensive looking beast WIN WI,
| q whip and persuaded 1t into trot. Inc
| cab began to move away.
| Here, come back!' I shouted. Here,
you This is no joke. Come back, 1 say.
| The cab continued to put distance be-
! tween itself and me.
| Papa" said the baby.
| II surveyed it. 1t was rather pretty
| baby as babies GO and it evidently
very must pleased with itself, for 1t haa
| just succeeded in pulling my cameo pm
| from my ascot which, in consequence OF
! the withdrawal, fell apart The baby helo
| the pin tightly in one fist.
| ''Oh!' I groaned Then 1 looked after the
| cab. 1t had turned into another road ana
well, I'll be" I calculated in help
less wrath well, I'll be- 1 scowled at
| the baby again. 1t scowled back and crow
| ed again. 1t also put the head of my cameo
| pin in its mouth.
| Baby mustn't" I said, weakly, and af-
| ter the manner in which l had heard young
mothers of my acquaintance cajole their
J offspring. Baby paid no attention. 1t was
sucking the cameo.
| Baby mustn't" I continued, severely,
and 1 opened the chubby fist and relaxed
! the grip on the cameo Then | found an
other obstacle. Baby had set its teeth on
| the cameo. Gently I pried open baby s
| jaws and took away the pin. Whereupon
| baby opened her jaws wider and gave vent
| to an unearthly yelp followed by others OF
| the same description. 1 put the pin IN my
| pocket.
| 1 thought that babies cried only little
/ at a time. This shows how little l knew
| about babies. That particular baby evil
! IDENTIFY intended to cry for several hours.
Its face was screwed up into look which
| showed intense pain. and its little chest
| rose and fell with the regularity of an OPP
era singers.
Now. baby, don'tr' soothed. Don't"
patted It, 1t yelled the more. l stroked
it. Its cries became more vigorous ooh!
shut up!' l vociferated Indignantly. 1t re-
fused to do so.
I looked around me with a feeling thai a
vast trouble had come into my life. What
had / done that / should be saddled with
the girl who had made me the butt of this
very unfunny joke became intense. l am
afraid that l said things about her which
no man should say about a woman.
The baby continued to yell
I eyed 1t in silent misery. Then I be-
thought me of a scheme which l had seen
q married friend work with q child in this
condition. I took out my watch and swung
1t by the fob The baby eyed 1t through its
tears and became silent for the moment.
But on inspecting the watch more closely,
1t evidently revealed terrors of which I
knew nothing, for the baby continued to
yell.
an moment I heard a voice, a feminine
| voice. "Oh. you're here it said, and
the tone was a surprised one. looked up.
A girl was coming toward me. She was
pretty girl and her gown might have been
made In Paris. She struck me as the es-
sence of femininity. She was slender and
moved with grace. and her eyes were large
and very brown. Her hair was brown also,
and In the sunlight it looked like red gold.
~ didn't think you'd be able to get here
in time" the girl went on, coming forward.
What have you done to the dear child?'
lido anything TO that youngster? Her