The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-05 00:00:00

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Ws obnerve with sews disgust that dim bee 1
been a essand Baby Elbow in this esentry. When
the last devise et Mr. Bans= in America was

related hers, wed tbe details ghat of ths prior-
show of babies whisk ho propoled Who publie—who

had had aweigh of hie tierimaide and Other wade-
scripts, sad who pitied the Swedish mightiegale
which he bad hired kr awtile—enr people first won-
dered whether the story mild be true, and this
laughed at the drollery of the Amnions in sone of
their practices. There was lON joking about the
beseat to the sesatily peopied Western Valley of
every isesotive to popnlatias—joking in the same
style as that of the Arkansas newspapers this as
leep, which tell Wm the squirrel that crept em
the [este last year now dap se he perches ca a
corncobs this illeetration of plenty being fol-
lowed by exhortations to the Ws sad
Wass to sorry, while there is corm enough
to bed the beasts, leaving qsaotitiees to spoil,

for want of ►ends to reap. This sort of joking does
very well for the wild West ; and there yea vasething
twigs' in the oireemetaness of the first baby show,
however little is harmony with Ilaglisb lasts meih
an exhibition Right be. In the Western Valley,
every masks is ►ailed for brieging together a pecu-
lation which has few martin ides of sasisliotereoaree.

A a rellistlme" is, we know, • very spirited affair
there moat the aes, sad a "quilting-bee" smog the
woolen. A religiose revival is as affair of preffigiene
excitement ; and so is every sort of pie-sin, or =sill
oeoasioa whatever. HAMM knew this well. whoa
he seat round the sews into every hamlet, farmstead,
sad log-house, on the Ohio bottoms or in the fareer
forests, that then would be an award of bosses to
the primed of the infant darlinp of the region. They,
were sot rural labourers, ignorant and poor, living
oa tot: or twelve shillings a week, and within sound
of "the church-pimp bell* and the hum of the mar-
ket, who beard the news. They were the *salary
or 'thinly grouped settlers whom Run= had in
vise ; men and their wives who cultivated dish ern
Lied, and had little me and little value firs 'messy,
because they lived on their own produce, but a very
street desire for social distinctioe (a the most
eat et-
ths-wq acquisitioa that could be prepaid), and as
insatiable appetite for social intercourse. These were
the people who were sure to be caught by the bait of,
a silver teapot, to glitter spinet a wall of logs, or a
handsome watch—such a treasure in the wilds!—to
be preened for the baby m a future dialectic's and
bandit. In fall remembrance of the peorliatity of
the circumetaaters, it was still difficult to ream&
English tastes to the peculiarity of the position of
mothers and infants in each a some of rivalry. Bat
when the some is transferred to English agricultural
counties—to a cathedral city in Liasoloahin, sad a
rural settlement within way rush of Hall—the am-
deices of the ether are so entirely 'hinged that
there is so call for forbearance, as in the Ohio sem
All th. obfeetiose have tenfold force, sad then are
nose of the excuse. The matter le no leave sa
mission for joking sad merry quizzing. It haws
somiseltievoes as to require some serious remark.
The among annosneement of a let of prises of sow
adorable value, to be awarded to fins babies, under lie
categories, mused much excitement as soon as trade;
and the cosisearee amerabled at Withernses oa Moo-
day of last week amounted to several Aomori.
above the ordinary popalstion. Four or five special
irides were nu is the intervals of the ordinary ones.
Tile &dared= that the contest was under "
disth-
ga`{shedpatro.ags'appars not toltave been supported ;
bet there were hundreds sad thousands of persons
peat who should have had too mach sem, lcaow.
ledge. and lesling—if not taste—to sountensace

go' mishievens a piece of sport. It is all very
well to say that the thing did not go off plea-
santly ; that the judges were not forthcoming,
or were compelled to vanish after the awards;
that the permits were dingatinted, and tie ail.'
dna dimmable in their purgatory. It is not
surprising that &s local wingless are of opinion that
then will mover be another baby show in Witheenne
or the Neighbourhood s bat it RN tin ir via yo eicl
otter plasm en their pod oath. _the
aims and devises is whisk the first above drighothi
If Anodes may beset of the only Batumi in the
world, every sontry has spesalatore who are nay
to make their profit at human Weakneasse,
any norifies of Munn welfare; and if it is
true that the Withama show was got op by two ti
three "fast ping tame in Hall and Leadnoresiona
counties as well se seaters may be lend by thole
" fast pang as. into engin folly and sh eltie.
hoes of is are aeonetomod to think that it is Imoi
enough for misty and law to interfere between
paean and Wilson is fanny matters. It was not
beg ago that we were genies Smear Sorrn's
eloquent minks of intrusion on the most sacred
posed of Inman of under penmen of tn.
amity. What would be have said to this new
notion of bribing parents to fatten their infants
pip—to ran them up to a certain height, or oat to a
amnia breadth at weight, foe a pries in cask P What
would he have thought of inciting mothers, whops
beet or only heritage is Hie is their maternal posses-
sion and prerogative, to put their cbildren's beauty
and healtnfainese up to sale? What would he have
said to the "want of corruption by which a peasant-
father is invited to estimate the activity and promise
of kis child by its chances foe salver watch?
It is some hamiliatioa to us that *when intentions
in regard to infants, in the modern institution of
infant schools. have issued in a large admixture of
evil with the proposed good. If the testimony of
enlightened medial men may be relied on, the pro-
ponies of mortality in those schools, and especially
frost head disease, is very high ; and every form of
infantile disease is aggravated and extended. There
ought not to hays been anything surprisiog in this to
persons of ordinary observation, who most as that
nature paces human infants under eendidoes
very unlike those of aggregation is say hem.
The primary condition of that natural region, the
family, is, that all are of dared ape, sad
that the babe (specially is isolated, in proportisa
to the peculiar treatment whin in native imires.
While its brain is tender and slightly sanded, its]
existenceshould be almost purely vegetative; sad
there gannet but be peril la trines, 110111110 sad sooree
of the little creatures together, in a pin wine they
an exposed to one mother's noise, and when abode
and @Winn as repose of the Arline..lll9 Out of the
quoins. However superior infest 'sheen may be
to' the perilous genet window, the arts,* the OW;
from whit& the pc" IlltlicoanneeskPapa