Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-03-13
Our First Baby

from the Rochester Union and Advertiser.
Bless its dear little bald head! Was
there ever such baby since the world
began Only look at its wonderful
little red face! All puckered and
twisted and wrinkled, looking. frat
like head of magenta colored cab.
bage Ia startling contrast to the
smothering quantity of laces, frills,
tucks and puffs in which the little
high-tinted wonder is arrayed. Its lit
tie head is not looking exactly "care-
less and happy" but decidedly hairless
and cd1Pg, and like the proverbal Irish
roll OF butter which had 'only here
and there o hair" If there Is one
point ON which the INA" is touchy
II is concerning baby's. hair, SO the
least said about the canary colored
down the.better. .gss =
Our first baby! Heaven bless the
little red lump; what dear little nose
IL has-not a bit bigger than good
sized wart and such eyes-oh, such
eyes-"beautiful eyes, mamma saws,
but in reality the twin beauties" gem
orally look like a pair OF badly worked
button-holes, for fresh babies seldom
are inclined to open their ''peepers"
wide enough to let any one see wheth-
rthey are green or yellow. All babies
look alike TO most men, though women
have peculiar talent for distinguishing
between them. Babies are generally
supposed to resemble either of the pa
rents, though | must conscientiously
say that I never coud see any great
likeness to either one i'm The pursed up
phiz presented for inspection. The
common expression of countenance
would Indicate that "baby" had been
sucking large sized pickle, and did
mt like IL much, either.
When the first infant comes in
pa" has to take back seat. The
newly invested INA" has 10 time to
waste any carresses on anything else,
and i'm fact pa is looked upou as a sort
of intruder Ii he presents his bill for
kiss now and then. He does not come
in for the attrention of departed DAYS,
for "ma" has positively no time for
such nonsense, now. She has to see to
the making of pap the rolling of
crackers and the administering of Mrs.
Winslow's Settling Syrup.
Poor Pa altbongh he Is as proud as
a peacock. stiffE he inwardly kicks
against this usurpation of his rights,
and though he sinks into nonentity on
the arrival of the first born, and tries
to bear IL like hero, IL takes a long
time to get used to IL.
For instance, he rushes home
filed with desire TO attend Shake.
our-hoof's party. He says Susan.
my dear. Mrs. s., gives German to-
night; let up CO."
But Susan can't see IL. She looks AT
him as IL he had been guilty of canni-
balism, and withgth air of an injured
woman, says
"And leave Henry Augustus Caesar
Jenkinson? Leave 'our first baby p
Oh how can you. Charles William,
think of such a thing, when the baby
has had such time to get these front
teeth. too? Oh, you cruel, cruel pa
rent; you are not ht to be q father of
such an angel.n
this point, and Charles, William,
the miserable parent, withers into
nothing. 4'sF
In fact, there ia no. denying 1t, that
the first baby walks into the affection
(figueratively speaking) of the hitherto
devoted wife, and husband 10 Obliged
to go out in the cold, aud discuss the
relative parts OF ''swill milk "one
cow's-milk," skim milk" '.chalk
milk" !" &c, He finds . peculiar charm
In reading all the almanacs of the year
that treats of remedy for colic,n in
fants teething, chicken pox. nursing
sore mouth, rflenseles, &C.. Aud
though tire urchfn won't wear shoes
for months to come. Pa daily exam.
ines his toes and longs for the time to
come when he can encase the little
crooks in calfskin. Well let the hap
py parents enjoy themselves over .'our
first babies But while loving and
tending the little Jump, beg or its
happy mother not to forget that while
she is devoting hereelf To "our baby" /"
she must not neglect To give stray,
loving word or tender caress TO its hap.
py father.
Faithfully Yours,
RosE RAYIAND