Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-07-08


will be quite safe in hating him. No man that does
not deserve 10 be Stunned or disked ever shows an
antipathy to babies. What hate little creature
with cotton ball head that only manifest its JOY
by smiles, kicks and inarculae gurgle; that in
anguish, tell the seat of its pain but must en-
dure maryrdom while you are guessing out the
of its agonies that has the hottest of all claims
human sympathies-uter heIplessness, utter depen-
dence! What hate the thing which you yourself
were, and from which you would never have grown
mans estate if parents had been like you,
baby haer? Fie on it! Even dogs love babies, and
will suffer them to bestride Them pull their ears and
buffet them by the hour, without responding to their
annoyances with even grow. Mothers if you hap
pen TO know any male bped that dislIkes the species
in its infancy, DON'T if you help t,as1fer him to
marry one of your female friends uain!ances.-
Be he will make sour morose, icy hearted hus
band
But what shall be said of baby hating women We
have known some of that sot-marred ones, that had
babies and did hate them, and, verify believe,
would have gladly put them to bed for the last time,
where they would require neither rocking para
goric-under the sod. Yes, we have known such
the Lord confound them
&c If there be any spinster who habors in her viz
gin heart dstaste for the fruits of matmony may
she have opportunity Of raising any, but be
left bossomless, budIess, and unproductive, beyond
the range of loves sunshine, and have her
sibilities warmed by kiss embrace, or even a
chuck under the chin"
The above which we clip from the n York Times
and Messenger, looks pIauslbe-very plausible, out,
like many other generates, is by no means true
Some of the kindes hearted and nobIest that
lived do not like babies. They cant bel it. Nature
has thought fit, in her wisdom 10 substitute perfect
ly flat and smooth spot for the prouberance on the
occput where Gall places the organ of phloprogenl-
tiveness They dislike babies, sundry unfortunate
individuals abhor music--because the faculty is not
in them. Shakespeare poe;ical but unphllosoph
cal, when he declared that he who had no music In
his soul is fit for treason, stratagem and spois Dr.
Johnson and Sir Walter Scott lacked the power of APP
preciatng the concord of sweet sounds and were new
ertheless olerdbly honest and rreproachabe members
! of society.
In like manner, there are thousands of good, well
meaning harmless people, who shrink lnstnctlvely
from contact with those little squalng responsibilities
! Nav we have known fathers of families who rarely
took notice of their children, until they emerged
| from the indefinite condition of babyhood. sense
of Justice prompts this admission, for ndIvIdu.
aIly, we idoze babies. Every separate specimen OF
that extensive genus has powerful hold on our SYM
pathies, and more pass baby without a
caress or endearing word, than we can listen &c
Gottschalk without emotion of delight
What the Times and Messenger says of baby hating
women is most true. God, for obvious purposes has
implanted in the female breast abiding and imper
! shabe love for helpless and tender infancy. Tht
execution to the rule is uncommon, but whenever i
exists we are bound TO regard it a mOnstroslty-s
lusus NaturG-a shocking and unnatural prvation O
an endowment essential to that maternity which il
womans greatest pride and most eXqulslt pleasure
No woman ought to marry who loves not babes--to
assn redy she will be but heartless and negIecttu
mother The highest sense of moral accountability
and the strongest suggestions Of reason cannot supply
the absence of that mighty instinct which renders wo
man the peculiar guardian OF her innocent anu leeo
nursling.-N. D. Bee.