Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — What the Baby Thinks. [ARTICLE]

What the Baby Thinks.

‘'Sqmebodl wants te* kno "* whht the, baby’is thiriking ;. • ! L’lfcadiWipiitoOj know. f * It is , a subjerit on whjfr'? considerable conjecture may be indulged, the fruth of sie matter inighd be sfimewhat difficult. .And we should ri°t> probably, recognize the frutji when we . ourfd A baby of the gciMiinc, orthodox style—.lmirlesS, coloflessyshapele# as to fr>«y,' iWlSffiltfa fc Winking far pack Wi a mass pf'putty-colored layere of fat—ls not tSjOur mind a very attractive kpfebtacle tri cdriteihplate, though wq are irell aWaro that every wrirahipingmdther fef a baby will Jlate -qs most devoutly in Consequence of our opinion. A big apple dumpling, with two huckle!bcrrira juiiicWusly srit therein, might sit, for almost fthy'small • baby’s photograph of feUficess. ttolil , sole.ideA if, .ope may be allowed to judge from, actions, is how best to get Doth his fists into his ntouth at bhee; rind after tfiat combs tlie problem of

how he can; best turn his heels over his heyl without getting off his back, to accdmpljsh the. feat. And wfien he find he eftnnot do. ’ either of these “tilings to his satisfaction’he gets mad hnd cries, and his loving,mother is terrified . for .fear qholera infahtum is coming on, and she soo,h ' ,,g " r ""' “ d . .No dottbt a riabyi fiis'' some notions of his rtwn, if he’ wets’only given tha faculty i of speech, to express tliem. i Arid StaMMH nWlike’to rjd tbeuni-i •verse ®f>tiiatwite laiominatian, whfci| has twes to ifeilv rtftWWOaiWxwnToKf ui i ffiiing antWdrned ppsittadpwn t ,3nd7,flqwnside up. Yfl -ttfe handlfite bafond dld< Aimts- and uncles who eat bhions itoJriHrtha taint dri’Wsky and tobacco, or in him, ana he yfells with agbpy, aria his mother takes hmi eh her kneb, and ’ trots him, arid tells the nurrie she is afraid the ! ‘.little precious” ig going to have that (‘ dreadful, nasty colic” again? Afid then Comes’ the castoFojl bottle. 4 j “■ Is W happiness for the baby' to be skatlffed in flannel; and .smothered in pilJowftfinefl <UF¥toe-hiefttis room where the is. higher ttom it has any tegitima'te right to be on tne Fburth df July ? ’ Docsjfe Nke to ttavfehis feet produced frdm tireir wrappings rind shbwn, to ml-’ njiring a# the. A* wittiest ’ittife footlike to lrt#e‘ «*geH<hrfert 4ft mofith to ♦4ake>friHi-Hb«w*is nriftiteethflnuU I bwk Don’t you suppose he wishes.the iu§n hevtT heen-riny such a thing as “ Ridge’s Food,”Orßidge either? Wire does liri like to pull hair? • Why does he- contqpiplate his toes by the hour, and tyreak into spasms of shrieking* if -anybody crosses the fascinating objects? ’How does he like his mother to churn fiim up and down on her knee after he is fed. and then put him in the cradle and rock him till his wretched little; head ■bounces frorii side to side, and the world tarns round before his dizzy vision, and, weary with trying to keep pace with it, he falls asleep at last? We were all babies ourselves ohee, but - nonA wihpf Tnv it it uopma kno vv luuk ivr ivj TaHrta is: Sv<3llli3 ’qijite likely that time will goon, and we shall none of us know what the baby thinks.— Kate Thorn, in N. F. 'Weakly.