The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-03-28
Baby-sez.



aBoys or giflY stupidity enquiries
your bachelor friend, as in all the pride
of motherhood, you bring out, for sdu-
iation,your Jewel, sponged and brushed
with glossy pinkness and freshly clad in
miraculous emil rJide q, with blue rib
bons on either shoulder t4AN
Such question as this implies chron-
ic bachelorism on the part of this asker
in part siar, and obtuseness and r
lack of observation in askers ia gener-
al To one gho has paid the least at
tention 70. baby manners, baby -sexit IS At
once apparent in spite of uniform bald
heads and uniform white dresses with
blue knot5
If your 9jewel' be a boy, he has a
certain bold, defiant eair togardI the
world, into which tyrsnt Fate hasthrHst
him. He doesn't Issk for his nour-
ishment, be demands it be has sn i'm
perious central to cry; be holds bis
fastle-box with the grip of a young
giant. and is not content with the mu-
sic of its bells, but prefers rather to use
il as 3 sledge, and batter 1t 10 atoms
against his cradle; he rebels, at an ear
" stage of existence, against the re-
strainss Of long dresses, be always polls
whiskers with an exulting ferocity; and
is eenerally, distinguished hy Rstub-
born, dogmstic air towards his fellow
babies The boy baby il nOsgso easily
arunused the baby feminine. IF yen
rive him your watch seal he exhibits an
enauiring and covetous disposition as
10 what is at the other end OF the
chain. 81 left in the care Of lenient
| relative while mamma goes out shop
uins. he, subjects that relative to the
most brutal treatment insisting upon
4 being carried about like 8 king, and
having all the household gods, in the
shane of pet mantle adornments, and
worksbasket krick knacl1s, offered up
unto hiu- He is not 70 be resxed into
an extra nap OF . morning, but 81 the
first sweet dawnof light, urgently de
sires the fires to be lighted and the
household wheels 70 be set going--a
nou-eampliance 7withs this Fdesiro pre-
k.llfuins IN aim -pEelshged FoaEs and
| very rigid spine.
/ Ii the Jewel ia q giTl--A dimpled di
vinity Of six months-aiready she sets
upon your arm with q coquettish grace
ia nnl eeessazy 70 slfaiz your vision
in the effort to detect the line upon hei
head-where the adorning mamma hal
parted her hint of hair--in order 4
decide If she be ss'sis,s Cor Little Lady I
Wriffen al over hesS-in her shy ees
/. Is her lltEe tapefihs handss Ia ID
dainty grasp upon her pIsythings, and
her amusement ffom them Even hel
CRY has in il sound Of deiicAcy sns
aentleness. foreiga TO that Of q boy
She haa very iibsia. of hat pfopensisi
u a,smash thing as eTinced by he
nlsvt,s 4 1o.iih9 SAs d mere cas- ]
amused, rot because o. . shalloWer na
ture. but because am con
viaeed) she hss igaats = cogE1'lio'
serse and discretion, and know
batter than 70 CT for the moon, Q
fcovaf other in1pcssibiiities. She Is 81
tenderness ana lorsAbieness 81
'coos" rather fhan crows, and laugh
profuseif ard spaFkln9iY. TIE -
seems sireedy occupied with bushes
. and is serious snd plegmaiic but th
lairl il {. viyacious little spFite, Thos
essss;e spirits not 81 The d q seeth
ting can snbdue. The boy, Is he grow
into the age Of carts ard hammers, *
! ouires self-raaianoe and nianlineE
which We take pride and heis loved ri
! an imDetuous, strong. r0llieking l0E
But to tia fi11 one gives tenderef deF
ton. She c1eeps into zhe FegY n
lights of The heart--ko,g clese, We ieal
pifh .efne;iyiag pain, Hhen TIE teI
J. alssls coune 10 b unciaspeds aud = .
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