Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1869 — “Baby Talk.” [ARTICLE]

“Baby Talk.”

Thb following enthusiastic “ baby talk ” is from a lady correspondent of the Sacramento Union : * " Baby May is one Of the sweetest batten whatever, Whonthe gotei of Heaven were left »]ar—- • ,(|TI * * * * ft With folded hands and dreary eyes, Wandered out of paradise.’ "Twoyears of babyhood have passed ovey her pretty head. The other morning, ’her mother having stepped out, I heard a noise which, as it reached me, melted into a cooing tone. Going to the nursery and peeping in, I didn’t see this lovely morning glory * smiling behind her cradle bars,’ and reaching up her tendril arms to twine arouqd my neck, but, O snow-flakes and cherubs I I beheld this tiny Undine sitting in her crib in the midst of a snowy fountain, clapping her chubby hands and crowing with delight I It seemed wakening, and, nobody in Bight, she had amused herself by ingenibusty getting out ofher night gown, which was thrown on the floor, leaving her nakfed; then, espying a hole in the downy mattress ofher nest, had put her fingers in aßd, ripping the seam, pulled out every feather, till she was imbedded up to her plump neck, and looked like a chick peep ihg out of its shell Then commenced the fun. Throwing up her arms and bringing them down again with a staccato “ boo I boo ! ’'.the feathers flew up to the ceiling and ddwn again, and whirled in the air like. a snowstorm. I never beheld anything so cunning and so loyely. When I finally called out, “ Baby I" she gave a startled look, then reached up her bare arms toward me through the settling flakes. O dainty, dainty Baby May! was there ever a living picture equal to this maid of the mist—this sweet young Aphrodite rising from the sea 1 ”