The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-04-22
BABIES.

Our readers will remember that a
few weeks since we published an cx-
tract from the ShelbyvilIc Expositor,
relative to babies, to which we APP
pended few comments Of our own,
,, rather derogatory to the pestilerous
things; in other words, to use Il colo
ouial expression. we come down on
babies like thousand Of brick. -
The editor of the Cookcville Times
comics our comments, and then lets off
as follows:
From the above il would seem that the
editor Of the Home Journal has no love
for babies. Well, we set 1t down for
granted that his wife has no babies. For
# she had any and he did not love them
he certainly would be a very strange com.
pound of human nature, for 10 have a
pretty, fat, laughing baby is to love it.
He says if he had one and it cried he
would lay it down on the floor and 60 of
and leave it. All but that.
Now we venture to say that il the ed
itor of the Home journals wife had any
babies, fat or lean, that many short
editorial would appear in the Journal in
consequence Of time spent in nursing,
rocking and carrying the babies about to
keep them from crying, besides time spent
in bussing and squeezing them to hear
them laugh.
We always pity old bachelors and
maids because they have no babies to
love. But more TO be pitied are a man
and his wife who have none Of these lux.
uries OF life. For the former olive in
hope" while the latter "die in despair"
We never could imagine what kind Of
feelings man had (f he had any at ally
who has no love for babies. As to their
occasional crying, why that is only the
spice which makes the laugh the more
palatable. If there were no mountains
the vallies would not appear so beauti
full. If no winters the spring would not
be so desirable, nor the summers so
pleasant. And proper mixture Of ac-
ids is what makes sweets agreeable.
Now we dent know what sort Of ba.
bes the ladies have in Winchester, nor
whether the editor has ever seen any Of
these little world recruits any where else,
but we know there is one in this town he
could not help loving, 1t is fat black.
eyed, with rosy cheeks, and head Of hair
as black rs a raven, and it is always
laughing, except when it is asleep, or
takes an occasional hearty cry, which
only serves 10 expand its lungs and make
its laugh the more luscious.
When it is taken to church every body
wants it. The young men just think if
they only had that lit,le image of beauty
and pretty little wife TO nurse it they
would be made up, And the girls wish
Ito themselves that it was theirs, togeth-
er with some ruddy, whiskered young
man as a husband, and a fine hundred
acre farm with beautiful little white
cottage to live in, surrounded by pleas.
ant shade trees, with gravel walks, Dor.
dering with shrubbery, flower pots, &c,
and then a mahogany crib TO rock it in,
and little ebony girl to carry it TO church
on Sunday morning. Everybody loves
it. And we don't blame them for it, for
we love it ourse.f, not only because it is
so pretty and "fat," but because it belongs
to an editors wife.
Now, to all who are acquainted
with us, the above remarks from the
editor of the Cookeville Times will
wear funny aspect. We are per-
fectIy unacquainted with this editor,
and it is certainly quite evident, from
the way in which he writes, that he is
equally unfortunate in not being ac-
quainted with us. Yet, one thing he
seems to be sure of, and that is, that
we are. married man, and, not con-
tent with placing us in that fix, con-
cludes that our wife has no babies,
and forthwith tries to condole our bar
rem condition.
Now, we want to give a bit of in.
formation to our unknown friend and
co-laborer in the irksomc duties of the
chair editorial. Sir, with a counte-
nance beaming under the influence
of a joyful heart, we tell you that you
are most egregiously mistaken in sup
posing us to be even married, much
less destitute of those little haxen-
haired, bright-eyed, rosy-chccked,
cherubs you seem to consid-
err essential to a married mans do,
nestle happiness. Yes, sir, we again
repeat it, we are not married-never
wac ond--yhen yyo ,nodit at n upOn the