Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1917 — BOYS ON BABIES [ARTICLE]

BOYS ON BABIES

A schoolmaster sends us the following : Average age of boys, ten and onehalf years. Extracts from composition of “Babies.” “Some babies cari be pnt in a Jug.” “Babies should not be taught bad habits.” “Some women have not the patience to have a baby.” “When they are first born they are blind until they are twelve months old.” “Then it begins to eat soft food such as cherries, plums, gooseberries, and soft peas.” “They christen babies not only to give them names, but to teach them the gospel of God.” “If you want your baby to speak proper when it grows up, the mother tqkes It to have Its tongue cut.” “As it grows older it begins to have teeth. By this time the mother will know whether it Is a boy or a girl.” “Babies are very innocent-looking, but most of them are little demons. I have to mind our babies.” —Manches-