Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — Slippers for the Baby. [ARTICLE]

Slippers for the Baby.

One of Babyhood’s lady contributors says: “I have lately made a pair of slippers for my ten-months-old baby, which I find both pretty and useful, and! think perhaps some other little one would like to own a pair like them. It had been puzzling me for some time how to keep my little boy’s feet warm in the morning before he was dressed for the day; for he has the inconvenient habit of getting up between 5 and 6 o’clock, and, of course, he does not get his bath for several hours. Now these are the slippers I have made him, and I wonder how all this time I have got on without them: Measure your baby’s foot; crochet or knit out of single zephyr a perfect a little longer each way than his foot, double' and sew the two ends .together, crochet a sealtop around the top, run a piece of elastic through the scal!ops, drawing it small enough to fit the baby’s ankle, and put a ribbon bow on the front of the slipper. The baby’s foct shapes the slipper, andjs kept nice and warm on cold mornings. I have seen them used fer children five or six years old." Capt. Gbobge A. Johns Ton saw a black cross-toothed fish swimming with its belly np at the surface of the water. It was going around a circle at great speed, and severely biting itself just above its tail. When captured, that part of its body was scarred with marks of its teeth. As the stomach was inflated, the fish may have been trying to relieve itself from an uncomfortable feeling in thatipart of its body. However, when put in a bucket of wa-

ter, it snapped viciously at any object plaoed near it.