Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — The Baby Had to Go, Too. [ARTICLE]

The Baby Had to Go, Too.

A man, a woman, and a baby—the man and woman on a tricycle and the baby sleeping in a. basket swung from two arms in front of the machine—were going up the west drive in Central Parle yesterday morning, says the New York World. Several packages were strapped to the machine and the man and woman were dressed as if for an outing. It was quite early, not yet 6 o’clock, as they came up Eighth avenue and entered the park at 59th street. The few people who were on the street turned so gaze at the queer outfit, and smiled as they caught sight of the infant in its swinging basket. Above the basket was a canopy like that of a baby carriage. At the entrance to the park the man stopped to tighten the straps on a package. He was a sun-burnt, athletic-looking young fellow with pleasant gray eyes and a full dark beard; His wife, who sat behind him, looked pale and thin and was dressed in blue flannel. “Yes," he said, in answer to an inquiry, “I had this machine made to order. My wife’s health has not been good lately and we decided to take Our vacation in this way, and,” turning to his wife with a smile, “of course we couldn’t leave the youngster behind. Wife said he would have to go too, so I had the basket rigged up for him. No, we shall not camp out. We expect to travel morning and evenings and rest in the middle of the day when it is hot, and at night we shall put up at some farm house or country hotel. We expect to be gone about two weeks, and have no particular destination, but shall travel about in a leasurely sort of a way and try to get hack my wife's health. Name? Oh, no. never mind that; but don’t you think it is a good idea?” :