The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-06-29
MY BABY.


| Ee is very, rory young one. and in
him is fulfilled that saying of Job--s'we
are but Of yesterday and know nothing"
He cannot talk --he has never been known
to coo-his eyes do not work perfectly
as pair, but each on its own hook some
times, so that we have caught him look
ing both ways at once in evident won
derment and distraction-plainly he has
not vet settled bis own latitude and longi-
tude-he sucks his thumb and thinks
there is milk in it, though he don't fair
ly know milk from water, and actually
lived for several days on sweetened water
without a suspicion of the thin and vapid
cheat practised on him-he puts bis fin
gers into bis own eyes from sheer igno-
rance of coporcal dynamics, and much as
persons trying to cut their own hair be
ore glass, can't bit the spot, and are
almost as likely to single their own
| Noses stS IuIlE IOChS--NucIc 10 10 Pu'
there he lies, be is so little and weak
there is mighty little hair on the top Of
his head, in the place where the hair
ought to grow-nurse is ready to take
oath that he laughs, but the more skepti-
cal of us are convinced that his face
spreads and wrinkles smile-like, from
pnrely internal canses, that is to say, from
wind-indeed he makes innumerable mo-
tons of the face, which in adults would
mean something, and might mean some
thing. and might be interpreted, but in
him they clearly mean nothing, except
hat his face is eminently india rubbery
ard self-active, going on from one distor-
ton to another, leach one moro original
and impossible than its predecessor a
good deal as some folks say that human
will operates, Cor can operatc) Wis. from
no motion or impulse at all--he hasn't
advanced so far yet to discover that night
is tue time for sleep: nurse thinks that is
one of his main faiEngs and we lack
proof land rest assured, dear friends, we
have sought for III that he could tell his
father from any man to save his life.
Of course, that, be is in an exceedingly
primitive and unsuggestive condition.
Don't Mt all correspond with VIM. Words
worth's unemployment talk about babies:
"Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting
The soul that rises with Jig, our LIES Star,
Has elsewhere lad its setting,
And cometh from afcr
Not in ent ire forgetfulaess,
And rot in utter nakeduess,
But trailing clouds Of glory. do we come"
It's all a lii. We have searched for
"cloud of glory" ''traling" to our baby,
and it is not there, And he came Sin
entire foree,fulness" and suffer naked
ness"-in fact the description don't agree
anywhere. The baby is al extremely
nascent concern in body soul aud estate
His body is scarcely more than q tender
pulp; his soul is pulp too, for ought we
know through any decisive signs he has
made Though we have strong hopes of
it.) And as to his temporal estate, few
changes of clothes. a limited bottle and a
small benedietion daily frou the milk
man, make the whole sum and glory of
it.
And yet our baby is great affair
We are almoat ashamed to own, especi-
ally before ignorant and unsympathetie
bachelors, that such a feeble and in
fnitesilnal thing is more to us than one
more rat in the house; but the truth is
that from some cause our new boy pro-
yokes US to a more bsstling hospitality
and more affectionate nervousness, than
the arrival of some adult digaitary at our
threshold to make . long stay With US,
would-we feel guilty and mean this
very minute for having compaled him to
a rat tender censures assail us inwardly,
and we have been asked several times
since we madeit-"Supposing he should
die pretty soon, and before old enough to
accept your cantrition because you've
spoken of him in the same passage with
rat, bow would you feel then?" The
youth 1--WE rise spontaneou y to that
more exalted term in semi-expiation of
that vile rat PASSAGE draws us into the
room whore he is, a good many times in
day. and hiss tried to DO it q few times
il the night. Ithss COMO 70 be quite d
ss;cy advertisement FOR Us to look when
be: e supposed 70 bs ss.esp ana to find