The daily crescent., 1848-09-20
[From the Model American Courier !
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Georgia.
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BABY-JUMPERS BY THos. w. LANE
We always loved baby-not one of your sour,
suspicious, squalling specimens; but bright, rosy,
dimpled thing, full of fun and frOlc, running over
with glee, and such confding, unsuspecting dis
position as not to refuse to ''gO to- any body.
What be more refreshing, in this busy, tresome
world, than an occasional romp with baby! A
letting down. as il were, of the chord of mind,
til it vibrates in unison with baby's, and then
holding confidential chat, in real baby venacular.
Then, too, to have couple of white chubby arms
thrown around your neck, and pair Of rosy lips,
fresh rosebuds the dews have left them, pre-
sented for kiss The man who can think of it
without a softenng OF the heart, and a watering of
the mouth, is better than the swine before which
the pearls cast, and we hope he may never be
| best with babV-Or if he is, let it be regular
kicking, puglstic baby-one skilled in the art of
gOuging, who takes delight in running his thumb
into your eye, and is always trying to obtain lock
of your hair by more summary process than Clip
| ping. We were once baby ourself, and, TO this
day, we can't see one sitting the floor, with a
stick of candy in one hand, and penny whistle in
the other, without sigh for the days of babyhood,
and the luxures of bare feet and soiled aprons.
Who can look back upon those halcyon days with
out feelings of pleasurable emotion What glO-
rious world was that warm dark room that first
burst upon our delighted gaze, and what good an
gels were its three inhabitants-Our mother, with
her happy smiling face; the brisk little doctor thai
rubbed his hands so meFrily together, and pro-
nounced us fine fellow; and our grandmother, in
white cap and black apron, as she looked proudly
over her spectacles upon u.s. And yet how strange
| ly did her benevolent cOuntenance contrast with
her first manifestation of kindness towards us, that
of sousing us into ocean of water, and keeping
us there, perforce, until through exhaustion, we
were unable to express our wrongs IN walllng any
longer and infant legs at last refusing to kick,
remained in a state of inglorious quiescence.
Then followed the glowing delights of red wor-
| sted stockings and white flannel morning. gowns
the refreshing uxuries of snowy caps and blue rib
| bons-of superfine bbs and fuckers, and jaunty
little hats and dainty slippers. Thrice happy days
They bright they heavenly, 6 they're DGSt''
| We say we always loved a baby, and it is there
fore with uneigned pleasure that we hail recent
invention, ineaculable in its influence of good up
| on bahies-an invention which has created a per-
feet tiErOre among Juveniles and which still con-
| tinues to shake all babylon to its centre. The
| baby-jnmpef has been invented, and the lntanhe
| eysium is now perfect-a paradise, where, thanks
to the elasticity of ndia-rubber, there is fall
While Professor Morse was perfettng the telegraph,
and John Smith in hot pursuit of perpetual motion,
! a man in New York, oh philanthropiC man was
endeavoring to ameliorate the condition of babies
| And when telegraphs shall have passed from the
| memory of man-like an electric spark upon their
lSown wires-when the name of Morse shall be COW
cred with moss, and John Smith shall have become
| "a DVWOrd and name, the inventor OF The DdDy-
Jumper will live in the grateful recolections of all
/ mankind. Persecnted fathers, that through the
! lone hours of the night danded cherub on each
! knee while their better halves sumbeFed and
! ed, will bless his memory-worn-out nurses will
chaunt his praises in every lullaby and all the mil
| hon cribs and cradles in our land will crow his
praises, and yell in disointed sylabes the glory Of
| his name.
Newton, from the fall of an apple, discovered
Che laws of gravitation and we might here stop
with profit to trace the wanderings of the mind Of
Mr.. G.. w. Tue in its search after the baby jump
er. 1t Is interesting and instructive to observe the
process of reasoning in rejecting mind, step by
step it finds its way out from darkness to light But
we unfortunately compelled to resign this pleas
| ure. Nothing as yet has been given TO the world
of the process which developed that greatest of all
modern inventions, the ''Patent Elastic Baby
| jumper Ii was a tangible thing before the
world had even an ntmatiOn that its existence was
| ideal, and we can therefore do nothing but specu-
late. Perhaps Mr.. Tuttle thought it F'teD bad to
be getting up in the night, when the mercury was
below zero, to replace his baby, who, overlapping
| the baTiCades of Mrs. Tuttle on one side, of Mr..
Tutte the other, and of propriety on all sides,
| would lie nowhere but on the floor Oritis proba-
bic that Mr.. Tutte's legs rebelled, and refused to
trOt his baby until it was pleased to be quiet Per
| haps Necessity the mother of baby called Inven-
tion, was at the head of it. Which one of these
coniectures is nearest the truth, we have not time
now to determine; il is sufficient for our present
purpose to know that the baby-jumper is invented.
Miss Lucy Long need rock heIcradle no longer,
and the ''old white horse, ," on which babies were
wont to journey to "Banbury Cross - is turned out
TO Craze; he may hide his diminished head-the
baby jumper has completely supplaned him, and
all sensible babies have given him, what kind ami
NAL he never gave them, kick
Time was when mothers could only tear and
tumble few boxes Of ribbons or hOWers-when
they compelled TO leave glittering show cases
and enticing shelves for the less pleasing task OF
queting their babies In days of yOre, mothers
often returned from scenes Of pleasure, TO find their
babies making martyrs of themselves upon the fire.
Goals or their tender throats lacerated with fish
bones or obstructed by indiscriminate Inouthfuls.
Sometimes, too, they were met on the stairs by
their babies, who, forgetting every thing else in the
arder Of maternal affection, hastened to meet them
at the rate of ten STAR steps per second. The mat
rons Of yore could not pay visit or make call
without taking their babies with them 10 disturb
whole neighborhood with their cries on meeting
with new face But those melancholy days are
gone," and the most nervous mother may now
leave her baby at home, and gad about the town,
disseminating and collecting tattle, and annoying
the clerks from daylight till dark.
Dropping IN the other day at a friend s, we louhd
the mother of the family engaged in putting up a
baby-jumper for her first-born, sprightly boy OF
some ten months old, who lay upon his back upon
the floor, as entered, surveying the operation IN
mute astonishment. The mother having satisfied
, herself by numerous experiments that all was Sc
cure. the baby was taken up, the straight jacket
. buttoned around him, and he hung suspended in
mid-air. He looked around, now at his mother
now at us as if conscious that his situation was
very undignfed for one of his years. and then re-
sorted to that usual omnipotent sofener fmothers
hearts-tears. First there was gentle twitchine
Ofthe corners of the mouth-thsn compressed cur
vature Of the lip if he endeavored to repress the
indignation that swelled in his bOsom-the lips mex
took more decided curve, forming bright cora
arch, the nvariable precursor of tears, and down
the bright drops came in shower. Now, thought
r we, for the rescue surely mother stand un
moved in such trying circumstances but much tC
Master Willie's and our SURPRISE she stood off, mo
g tionless, spie upon her face which was but bal
a smile, as if she was determined TO see the finale