Show hoiby metropolitan journey the baby came from down south and hit has only been in town a few weeks but she has made the most of her time she has a black mam naya but sho she la is herself ax 2 years old and has adventures of her own the other day she went out to the florists with lier ter mamma look after baby said the mamma 1 I must run back for a letter but the baby toddled along at the mothers skirts so ro the friend returned to tier her sowers then slie site went want to meet the mamma returning with the letter where is baby she went with you no she did not the conversation was not prolonged the baby was nowhere to bo be seen the tile police station seemed the likeliest place and the distracted women rushed there but w without success they sent telegrams to knowing people pc ople for aid and scouted the neighborhood with bior horse e cars running by hy butcher baker and grocers carts dashing by and curdling the blood in their veins the black mammy ignorant of the town and its ways went down tenth avenue inquiring it if anybody had seen her baby baby was standing on the corner of forty second street and tenth avenue talking cheerfully to the most typical little tough in the neighborhood the black mammy fell upon berv her with ith tears and ki kisses ses baby waa was annoyed at the interruption wat you come for mo me for she asked baby bad had made the jour journey ricy from fifty seventh street to forty second crossing cros bing tenth avenue three times tham guided only by the little cherub that sits up lip aloft whose basins it is to look after the steps of the innocent and tho the helpless new york commercial advertiser |