The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-07-28
Our BABY.


fulfilled tha, ssying OF Job" we are but OF
yesterday and know nothing" lie cannot telk
-he has never breu known 10 coo-hs eyes do
not W. work perfectly as q pair, but each on
its own hook sometimes, SO thstwe have caught
him looking two wa)ss. once in evident won
derment and ishsclion--plsinly he has not yet
settled his new latitude and lohgitude~~he sucks
his thumb aud thinks theirs Is milk in it, though
he don't fairly know milk from water, and ac
tually lived for sevaral days On sweetened water
without a suspicion OF the thin rand Vspd cheat
practised on him-~hc puts his finger into his
eye from sheer ignorance OF corporeal dynamies
and much ss persons trying TO cut their own
hair before a glass. can't hin the spot, ard afe
almost as likely TO shingle their noses as their
lockswhere he is put there he lies he is little
and wesk--there 10 mighty little hair on the top
OF his head in the place where tho hair ought
10 grow--nurse is ready to take her oath that
he laughs. but the more skeptical Of us are
convinced that his face spreads and wrinkles
smie-like, from purely internal causes, that is
90 say, from wind indeed he makes innumern-
BILE motions Of the face, which in adults would
mean something, and might be interpreted. but
in him clearly they mean nothing, except that
his face is emnently indiarubbery and seIt-ac-
tive, going on from one distortion TO another
leach one more original and impossible than its
prcdece. .sot) n good deal as some folks say the
human will operates (or can operaIe) viz: from
no motive or impulse vt sll--he hasn't advanced
so far as To discover that night is the time for
se-p nurse thinks that is one OF his main fail
ings) aud we lack proof (and rest assured,
dear friends, we have sought Tor it that he
could tell his father from uny other man so save
his life.
| or course then he is in an exceedingly prim-
! tive and unsuggpstve condition. Don't at
all correspond with VIM. WadswoTth's mag
niloqusnt talk about babies
"Our birth is but sleep and forgetting;
| The soul that rises in us cur life's Star.
Has had elsewhere it1 set ing,
Aud cometh trem atLr;
Not in entire forgstfulness,
And not in utter max cdnessS,
But trailing clouds OF glory do We come
It's all a lie. We have searched for "cloud
of glory" trailing TO our baby. and it's not
thele. And he came "in entire lorgetiulness
pnd utter nakrdnrss'-in TACT the description
don't ayr, anywhere. The baby is an extreme.
ly nascent concern in boly, soul and estate
His body is scarcely more thsn u tcnter pull p;
his soul is pulp. 100, for ought we know lhroush
any decisive Signs he has made though We have
strong hopes OF it.) And as TO his temporal es-
tate, few changes OF clothes. limited botlo
and u small beuediction daily from the milk
man, make the whole sum and glory Of it,
Aud yet our baby is a great affair We are
almost ashamed to own, especially before igno-
| rant and unsympathetic bachelors, that SUI q
feeble aud infiuit-simul thing is more to us than
one more rat IN the house; but the truth is that
from some cause our new boy pr0vokes us to "a
more bustling hospitality aud more stfectinn-
ate nervousness than the arrival OF soue adult
digoi oilary at our threshold To make u long stay
with us, would-we feel guilty and mean this
very minute for having compared him 10 rat;
temder censures ussail us inwardIy, and we have
been asked several times since we made it
Surprising he should die pretty soon, aud before
old enough 10 accept our conirluon brcaus'
yu've spoken OF him in the same passage with n
rat how would you feel thrn!' The youth 1--WE
rise spontaneously to that moe exalted term III
srmi.eXpidtOn ol that vile rat passage, draws
Us into the room where he is, gooI many times
III day, snl has tried To do II Il lew times in
the night. IL has come to be quite spicy enter
| tdiumeut for us to look where hS is supposed to
b, aserp aud to fnd hIs two blue eyes all open
under the blaukel--wc have flown to the loun "a
on several occasions 10 deliver him from he
heap Of clothes in which we were confident the
nurse was smotherinS him--we have listened 10
hear him drop from her arm, on the floor in the
other room--in sruth "our fears do make us
cowards,' and we have 10 stand guard all the
while over the weakins.
Ancienuy We thought it folly to search foI
the image of anybody in young bsbys tace;
but We catch ourselves every day looking FOR the
image and prescription of somebody in our baby
Once We held lhata new baby's head is always
without form and vod;" but we have given lhs
up Once we thought it little superlluous, and
rather straning matters TO eongratulate IA man
on his fresh baby; but that dogma has been sur
rendered, and we are beginning to have soul
feeling towards some distant relatives of our.
who haven't written word obou, our boy lr
short, we might as well confess, we are a conver
ted man in our general view OF babies.
We fni our head suddenly turned TO mos
earnest views Of education. We have writer
already, several articles for the press on hom'
training. Sabbath schools and the like. w,
came within hair of visiting one of the schools
to-day. We even got so far in an absent.mindeC
moment. as TO raise the question, which of the
colleges of our acquaintance is best for boy
thought how pleasant it must be for father anC
son to graduate al the same college --resorteC
TO mathematics on The problem how old W,
shall be when our boy is fitted 10 enter, &c, &c
We can't tell it all now. Don't write steadi
ly more than hall an hour at time nova -da ys
Hartford Press.
A Young Lady Rescued from ths