Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1881 — About Babies. [ARTICLE]

About Babies.

1 ha*Shirt that W* baby itr wtH-spring-of'pleasure* WU he never had % b*ky- r A baoy may be a well-spring of pleasure, bnrt if that is a fact it has never lAot male patent to us.- We have three of ’em at borne, and the result is our htalr thetarP ciying'fbr K “bleoe. * ’ OccaatotiaNy tMs he arted by one of them falling down stairs. The falling down stairs racket la highly waiting and peculiarly thrilling , .tp a nervous man. ft takes a fellow a long time to get used" to ft, but We Would say to those unsophisticated couples who are rearing. their first babies that no kid ever gets hurt by falling down stairs. They’ve got to fall down stairs fifteen or twenty times, just as they have got to go through the measles and whoop-ing-cough When our baby first got/ in the habit of tumbling down stairs it scared us; we thought a thing like tiwt would smash it Oil dp, and we used to skirmish around to drag stores f? liuinient and things to put on, it. Now, when oue of our babies performs this act we generally lick Itor give it*a cent, according to Which best suits its but we have never pleasure in this sort of thing. . AH we Wkfat io do lii this brief article is to make thewell-spring-of-pleas-ure man eu* of,a liar. We won’t go into thatj. stereotyped story about * fallow getting out of bed on a cold wlhte* night - ahd‘ trt>tting up and down the room when the baby has the cgite.and ruAuing tacks ip his feet,and fooling around with the paregoric bottle, because tve believe that any man who is not : an' irtfot never did that except on -the occasion tfie„ Op* ~ baby,,, After the Wife shoulder the and the at the same time. It de-» volves upon her then -to trot up and down with, the baby and.look whether, there are pins sticking into it*nd give it doses of catnip tea and soothing syrup. If the fatherly of a phlegmatic disposition he goes into *a sort of a nightmareish sleep, and if he is nervous he flounders around the bed and swears,“and we think oft* readers will beams out when we Sky there isn’t raueh of a well spring of pleasure in that- • , , - . . • Toen as time rolls on the babies get older and they alto get the measles, and all sorts of infantile diseases, and in addition to this the boys fall off bake-overs and board-piles and break their arms and legs, and the girls get sand thrown into their eyes and mil into coal-horee and gel Toss. The old man, instead of getting a new overcoat, his money to bgy coughsyrup and pay doctor biljs, and when he finds his nose brought to the grindstone in tots manner he is apt to wonder whether the well-spring man is a myth or pot, and is liable to believe that he is.

But we suppose whiff is, is right. The world wouldn’t amount to much if there were no There is nothing mean about us. We are willing to. wrestle with the babies, and feed them, and clothe them, and educate them, and bring them up in the way they should go,' then see them meander off in the way they shouldn’t go; but what we kipkon is the well spring idea, and We repeat that the man who-got off Chat remark never was proprietor of a baby.