Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1889 — The Baby in the Bureau. [ARTICLE]

The Baby in the Bureau.

There lived in a Pennsylvania town n few years ago a woman who managed this baby-in-the-bureau question most skillfully. To begin with, the baby, as well as the bureau, was her own. Her method was to remove the two upper drawers, and seating the child in the lower drawer, gently slide it shut and turn the key. The child then sat up of its own accord, and with its head in the space vacated by the upper drawers, crowed merrily away for hours. Not unfrequently, the mother thus left the child to attend to her duties in another room, or even to go on shopping expeditions requiring an hour or two. Confined in this improvised cradle, the child was not always quiet,

but it could neither harm itself nor any of the objects about it, and that the mother knew.