Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — Baby’s First Visit. [ARTICLE]

Baby’s First Visit.

Folk lore has handed down some curious manners and customs of our ancestors. The following, relating to that exacting personage, the baby, may not prove uninteresting: On a nurse taking out a baby for the first time to show it to different friends, the one upon whom the first call is made should give it a little flour and a little salt, each wrapped in paper; an egg, and a sixpence, or any other coin, so that the child, in its future career, may never want money, or food, or its necessary seasoning.