Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — The Baby Wouldn’t Fit. [ARTICLE]

The Baby Wouldn’t Fit.

A young German woman, of ample proportions, and with flowing robes and a small baby, boarded a Third avenue elevated train, fehe selected a place with two vacant seats on each side, and, in sitting, covered with her dress the low wooden partitions separating the seats. Then she tried to make the baby lie down by her side, with its head in her lap. Not succeeding on one side, she tried the other, but each time the small of the baby’s back met the hidden partition, and it couldn’t be made to fit. The baby resisted the endeavor, and raised a noisy lamentation. The mother, after many efforts, concluded that its perverseness was not to be subdued, and snatched it into her lap, with the remark: “Yell, ven you can’t keep dot backpone straight, I tink it’s petter you sit up.” Then she looked around to see why all the passengers were laughing.— New Fork Sun.