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Show T ITS ONLY HUMAN ! NATURE AFTER ALL, i YOU MUST ADMIT ' (IIV 11 RRY P. It IGIiEYO I Maybe possession creates interest land excites curiosity but at any rate,' 'the ways of a mother with her first born are certainly peculiar, j If you, in the course of your exist-' ence. have stopped to watch two youiijr mothers, each parading the street and acting .is motive power to a brand nr-w perambulator, you 11 Ret what I mean Last week I chanced to see two wo-i 'men, each wheeling a splc-and-span I baby carriage along Washington nve-i nue. They wore approaching each other' from opposite directions. When they wore within uhoui thirty feet of each other, they opened a buttery of hostile glances, sizing up each other's "outfit- with looks of mingled envy and contempt. One of the carriages was equipped' with some features that the other had! not. While the second currlage also! embodied certain little Improvements which the first could not boast of. Ab-senrp Ab-senrp of the fixtures which each wore lacking, and en'.) of the features I which the convetnces possessed, was the cause of that bitter look. The mothers drew closer, each continuing con-tinuing to scrutinize th wicker bod-1 ics of the carriage, presumably to as- certain whothcr If was new or merely painted over. Then they passed As two puppets, operated by a sin- gt 'tilrif,', the mothers quickly snap-1 ped their heads to reverse, each Btrlv-I fl g tr. catch :i plance at the occupajit , In Die other's c-arrlape As luck would have it, both youngsters were but a ti weeks old and were singly bun- I died UP not i fn thrtr noses bolng1 visible. Each, however, was firmly I convinced that she possessed the most j beautiful baby. And as they passed, continuing their I stroll alon gthe street, they softly I ' panned" each other. "Did you see : that green quilt that that woman had over the yellow buggy?" one of them remarked. A little oil on the wheels of that', brown one wr jus! passed wouldn't hurt it a bit." tho other ono remarked , In a c')iii emptuous tone. They departed, each keeping a! weather eye out for another 1ukk with which they could compare their own- And each knew that, although the) saw n perambulator mode of mother -f pearl, with gold Inlaid wheels and Jewel 1 nmmlngs. that they woulr de-1 Id In favor of their own buggy, merelj because it sheltered "'ittle I snookums." |