Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1858 — Mr. Blifkins' Baby. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Blifkins' Baby.

i That first baby whs a great institution. As soon as he came into this "breathing ( world,” as the late W. Shakspeare has it; ‘he took command in our house. Everything .was Subservient to hiip. The baby was the :> i laiiee-wlieei that regulated everything. ( He regulated the temperataro; he.regulated (tin- lii.id: he regulated me., Fir tiie first six ( montflis of that precious existence, he had m ' ijm on an nv.iraije, six times a night. l"M'.- Bl kins.” s yid my' wi "e, “!>r:ni that (light here,'! i; the baby looks stranuelv; I’m iso frqid it will have a fit!”. Of cuufsi’; the lamp was bjxiught, and, of course, the baby lay sticking his fist lik? a I'tfle white bear, 'ns hit was. “Mr. Bli k ; ns,” said mv wife, "I think*! ,'eel a draught of air: I wish you would get up and see if the window is, n >,t (op hi i little, because baby rnkfht. get sick;”. N n.i’mg w.,s the mutter with the window, as I knew very well. ■ Mr. Bli.kins,” said :ny w(iie, just as I was going to sleep again, “th it (Limp, as you have placed it, shines directly! in baby's eyes—strrtnge that you have no miore consideration.’’- I arranged the lig it, and went to bed again. Just as I was I dropping to -deep again, “Mr. Bii kins,’’-said 1 my wife, “did you think to buy that broma I to-duy| for the b.ibvl” “My’ dear.’ saild I, ! " vill you do me the injustice to believe that I coulfl overlook a matter so essential to the ; coin fort of that inestimable child!,” Siie ipp'jlogized vmw handsomely, but made her anxiety the scapegoat. I forgave her, ami, without saying a word more to her, I addressed myself to sleep. “Mr Blilkins,” said my wife, shaking me, “you must not ; snore bo. you will wake the baby.” “Jest .s . —joji; s-,,” -i : 1 I, half asleep, think ing it. i was Sakin SYm.le. ".Mr. Blilkins,’* - satd my wi.e-, !-‘wi i v >u get up and hand me the warm gruel from the nurse-lamp for baby! Uiii? dear child! if it wasn’t for his mother, I .don t know what he would do. H>w can y.m sllep so, Mr. Blilkins!” “I suspect, my dour,” said I, "that it is because I am tired.” “O, it’s very well for you men" to I talk siboot being tired,” said my wi e; ‘ I i don’t know what you wouid say, if you h-,+i ; to toil an I drudge like a poor worn m witn a I b iby.” I tried to soothe her by t<uling h‘r i tb it sht£ had no patience ati all, and got up i tor the posset. Having aided in kinswerin j the; huby’s requirements, I stepped into bed again, kvith the hope of sleeping. “Mr. BlifkinSt” s u’d she, in a louder key—l said nothing)—“O, dear!” said the inestimable woman, in great apparent anguish, “bow can a man, who has arrived at the honor of a live babv ol his own, sleep, wh‘?n he don’t know that the dear creature will live till morning! ’ I rem.lined silent, ami after awhile deeming Mrs. Blilkins had gone to sleep, I stretched ihv limbs lor repose. . II >w lon p 1 slept I don’t know, but I was awakened by’ alurious jib in the to ehbad by some sharp instrument. 1 started up, and Mrs. Bli-fkii/s was silting up in the bed, adjusting somi?4mrtion o th - biby’s dress. She had, in a state of s mii-s iirin iL'iice, mistaken my head for the pi ; iw. 4’l'ich.she custom irilv used tor a imr urnil pincushion. I protested anainst such trea inent in somewhat r mtid terms, pointing to several perforations in my forehead. She told me I should willingly bear such trifling things for the sake of the baby.. J insisted upon it, that I didn’t think it my duty, its a parent, to that young immortal, re- . quired the surrender of my' lorehead as a pincushion. This was one of many nights - passed in this way. The truth was, that ’he baby was What every other man’s first baby is—an autocrat, absolute and unlimited. Such was the story of Blifkics’, as he related it to us the Other day. It is a littleexaggerated picture of al cost every man's experience.— Saturday Evening time tie. (45~1t is proposed in South Carolina to. erect a m •nutnen? *o Goipt 1 Francis Mirion, the “Sw’amp F >x” ol the Revolution. {j37~Tn Ij'-iwa there are six Germ in’newspapers. Five of them are Republican and one supports Bu hamio? Out-door SyoKTS —Be ng chased by a mad ov, orj collecting bill* for printers