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Show A BABY AT THE THEATRE. Audience, Actors and Orchestra Entertained by "Mamma's Itty Darling Pet." She brought the darling with her to see the play. Her entire devotion to t'ie active infmt and total indifler-ence indifler-ence to observation proclaimed her its mother. Sho tickled the baby under the chin till it crowed again. She seized its foot and shook it till the infant buffocated itself with delight. This had a bad c-flect, for when ba recovered i ts wind it yelled with fright. Then, such a k Using aud dandling. It was tossed, and playfully play-fully ohaken. and grinned at, and chirruped to, until it began another alarming laugh. An artificial rose in the maternal bonnet caught the infantile eye, and the delighted mamma sullered her ohspring to bob weakly up and down on its limber legs, and jabber earnestly at the floral ornament. People in the vicinity vicin-ity grew nervous. Such a lively in fant was sure to make things disagreeable before the evening even-ing was over. Several young men got up and changed their seats to the other side of the theatre. Gentlemen contracti -1 their brows and unmarried ladies as timed fixed smiles of unnatural unnat-ural sweetness as they cast their fine eyes toward the playful infant and its proud and happy mother, fancying that they tluiB advertised the well of maternal love which lay latent in their virgin bosoms. The lights were turned up and bulged out the infant's eyes with sur. rise. One leeblc little hand, wilh ail tho tiny fingtrs work ing, was stretched convulsively toward to-ward tho glittering gas jets on the other side uf the auditorium. The orchestra began with a crash. The baby fell upon its back in the mater-ii.il mater-ii.il lap ami setup a shriek bo loud that the old German doing a little solo on tho cornet between crashes, had his sound quite drowned. It was noticed that when it came the bass-drum bass-drum man's turn to chime in, he did so with a thundering vigor that would have covered the screeches of a foundling hospital. Baby got used to it and when the curtain rang up Bat in a state of stupefaction staring at the actors. An amiable old gentleman iu eye-glasses and a white vest, sitting immediately in front of baby, wearied of the play, and in the most grand-fatherly grand-fatherly manner possible, turned, and poking a fat forefinger into the infants in-fants ribs, jocosely clicked his tongue. The consequence of this advance was that, just aa a young gentleman on the stage, who was on his knees before be-fore a young lady with averted head, remarked in an impassioned manner, man-ner, "And, Edith, darling, should heaven bless our union and give us " baby gave a howl of supernatural super-natural loudness. The confuaed aud mortified old gentleman hie ft his nose with prodigious vigor and looked straight before him with a very red face. The young gentleman on the fctage was startled out of his speech, and the young lady, overcome with ; emotion, skilled her handkerchief : into her mouth. Every man in the house scowled at the mother, who seemed more calmly delighted with her durliug than ever, and. made loving lov-ing faces at it for full five minutes. She was really and truly unconscious that she aud her pet annoyed anyone, any-one, and throughout the whole evening even-ing urn i led serenely and looked upon the infant's scroams and kicks as marks of a precocity which must excite ex-cite the admiration of the public who, no doubt, were delighted with the priviiego ol witnessing tho same. |