Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-11-11
! OUR BABY.
WRITTEN rOa rOar1ns SPIRIT OF TIE HINES.
BIZ n N s.


We've got a baby down to our house, real
bona ytfas blinking baby that is, if the pimpled,
wrinkled squirting piece of sgnirEn hidden away
beneath those pillows Of lace and flannel, can br
called baby, against the suppositon Of which (if
didn't know thing or two, and hadn't been there
before.) | should be ineiaed to file 40 objection.
We C rtanly have got a baby; the intelligence OF
which was conveyed 70 me by round-eyed, won
der stricken nrchin, which WAS the baby till THE
morning, in the following glowing terms: "0h
Aunt Marian, we've got baby down tour house.
Papa says the Doctor saw its little legs han. ing
through the limits Otthe great on tn common,
and pirked IL of for mamma Want he eoCd?
ut course subscribed the gcOd''eas part, sadly
remembering the Zinc when our Down East
babies were gotten up upon similar Oity scale,
and tying my bonnet FASTENED home 10 "welcOme
the little stranger" that bad cavalisrly slept in
during my absence. Tommy was there before me,
and with eyes bigger than ever was standing al
nurses knee, evidenty trying TO solve the qne~toG
whether baby's fists were doubled up TO bit HIN
punch, or to shub his own nose, the rough w.V Of
the world A bran new baby Do you know what
It's advent is into the heart ana home OF tsppy
family? The mother lasGg in that bed OF Suffering
which reduces all women, from the queen TO the
beggar, to the common level of humanity. 1hr
mother, that We sp roach so reVerentlg, feeling
that human soul has been sent from Heaven ria
her MAT, rna boron, ani that from her ha-ds will
He who sent iLrequlre a strict account Of its guar
diarship while passing it, little life through this
world OF chance ana changed What responsible
u greater one than We, who 30 long for thai
new emotion of hOlV motherhood which has never
been accorded u, are at all conscious Of W ere
so. W., who know TO its core every thrrb OF the
worlds heart who have lived thou n its storm and
cain, who know bow unsubsantal its pl asures,
now poignant its woes / saw, could We know Oh"
responsibility OF transp planting TO it, suuHhine and
ito ehade one single blossom from The garden to
God We should prav more fervrLty than ever We
might so in fficeutly fulfil. But there. to our
prayed for it, reality TO bs sparc that trust which
new baby, to everybody tip tOeing il every
body but Tommy, VINO never having been sccus-
tomed to walking on eggs, don't extcly see why he
should begin nOw-to see them all so gleeiul over
baby so ptiiul for mamma { oor mamma laying there
pale and wan-to them joking papa, and cal
ling him terrible fellow" TO which Tommy is
surprised looking up, 10 perceive that papa looks
rather proud than angry at being called such
harl name. His little heat swels for p0pa, and
he looks at old Mrs Gruudy very much as if h.
thought il wouldn't be safe for her to call him such
a name. If he was a man Then when III y are all
gone, all the inQuisitve ones, Harper - brought
in, and /, cudding DOWN the side OF the bed,
and lau- hi in my sleeve TO see how carefully
baOy is given back 10 nurse, for fear that Asrau
should Mash it, read to them that dear sensible
" Old Bachelors Revery," 80 appropriate just now
TO our thoughts and emotions WHAT an interest
we take IN TOMS and Marys hahy-not that we
think it can begin TO hold candle with OURS
how read over and over again all the quaint,
homeslike passages some tunes stopping to laugh
heartily at queer jokes, prettly ~Ord-d, hear
ulN, SO far Tommy and are concerned, mamma
only smiles the faintest ghost OF smile, but ber
ewes wet, and that is greater compliment still
I'm not competent to cay whether psps's is laugh
or not. Il is great queer snort which brings his
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES into r,QIsilion But after
col sid rahle swall0wii &, ard thing whici!
rounded very ike a sDob, have his word for it
that he has laughed over it till he cried" LuckI-
" for him, just then, poor Tommy, WHO always
laughed longest and oudtst without the remot 5.
idra where the laugh came in, became irresstlblN
tucked; 20 much 20, that nothing nat summers
could cool of his eXuberance That wOu pass
we'll enough, but his heels coming down in ue4r
proximity TO babt's nose gives him a propeller
which turns his tune, and sends him cT' lug 80 III.
kitchen. Mama says, Poor Tommy" and papa
Immediately starts tor him" 1t Violently takes
a long lime to iud him, for halt an hour p1ssrs,
when he returns with Tommy aud pair Of red
eyes irving to assert very mantuIly that papas hov
wasn't going to have his put qIite out Of Int
for all the new babies in the worst Q let
more restored We return to the discussion OF tn
article We have been reading They needn't tel!
mammt; she knows nobody nut a father ever wrote
that aIlicle. "Nhy, how could it be, )" she say;
''hu~ could any body but II father know so exactly
fathers feelings Oh, il WIS no bache l0r thar
wrote t-they couldn't make her believe that"
Then she smiles on papa, and papa. WHEN ne thinks
| don't see him, smIl,s on her, and takes her poor
DlUurss hands aud presses tito his lips, ana places
iC IN lis bosom unul poor me, vino Don't tim
,p, b, Iuh uouldtir hirpd tn him a
las lived long enough to know what eyes N d.
for, aud when 10 see, aud when not 10 see) Chuh,
up worse than papa did and making Tor nv Owr
chamber for fear, as ! say, that NV cough would
wdkpn baby, have just mot maghlhc Mt cry, with
nothing ia the world to rry Tor, UulV b-cAuse cvrr,-
thing is affecting; bach, lors article IN liar
per-" and our altcle-lhdts The bsby in it. cradle
AID papa aud IN ANNA over their new-oOrn happis
ness, an6 new born elections.
And then | think of hn who wrote "Uohsr
and chiH ave ding ,OeH," Whch set Us all gong
such a rate. .mo wonder # h. is really bach-
eior; it he isn't Tom" hm-e; aud if Mary AID
the Dary are not hls exclusive property. IheH |
think what thing it is to be able 10 write word
touching home- Chords With such p asurablr mrlO
DIV, and how much | would rather BE- capable Of
writing tou, hug btle thing, Ike that, Than the
most -kdiful scientific romantic books hat ever
were written. Th, lhnk | wouldn't much mind
seeing him. II | did, especially Just IN my resent
mood, | should put my two hands in bic Tor NV
arms around his neck, / haven't quite decided
which aud ak him il he, With all hose faberly
trsIines, really rG' bach, Ior; and # SO, -dvs,
him upon the shortest nOtice pra,ticahl- 20 get
HIm IA vile and a baby, aud with them a Tree paes
10 all the home el iymeuts Nhch he so eIreliently
describes on tell you man never shows h'a
points, till bit OF humanity, bone OF his bone, and
h-,h Of lis hssh, laws h-lplessly in his arms lie
never Knows hmscit ill the dear one he has che
sen from out the world TO walk with him the pill
Arimage Of life lays for the FIRST time before him,
weak and pale, with this morsrI Of humanity Oh
Der bosom. The promises they make TO their Own
heart thst no Wrorg OF their doing shall give
q pang TO that gentle bosom-t;Iat no path Of pleas
ure shall be pleas enough 20 lure Ga IA feet frou
the portals Of their O~h bOmr; but alas! there
mus, be az ala.l TO every thing III this @Orl1, new
oabirs &c to b. Old stories-fresh promises i,1e in
the lgnt of fr,sher pleasure,-aRd man, being
iuconstant ever would rvqaire new bab'
every week or two TO make them toe the marx OF
all the promises they make As II wouldn't be
q it, so convenient for US to accommodate our
selves to >uch requirements, We must take the viii
for the ed Babes great Institutions, though;
At least ours is Il. u. 5.
CorroS SUPERSEDED by SILK.-The Paris cor
respondent OF the London Atlas sends 70 that pa
per the following account Of new discovery that
is important II true.
ave hail sith delight the announcement that
sdpa,.t has just made valuable a discovery ia
Tie art OF preparing silk that this article will be-
come cheaper aud more common than cotton. The
sarah', il appears. day having nothing else TO
do. began think which is soudrrtul for a SdUd't,
says Aiphonse Karl that there Vas but one crea-
~. a. fb.sfe N hnF
one description Of y, gvi.ule mater, hat Of tue
mulberry ire, mt q for that Creature food
ther,ior the suGy substance mast not lie Ia the
miami but In the vegetatle mailer 50 AZ oce the