Smyrna times., 1869-10-27
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f3ont Babies
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to-day at tie x o,'fsat ststs 1 Rely M \ H, H
tais baby, and a1d fs's ssss sBIss' pSb
do this for tie pc psss' 81 avolding inter &
ruption, and Selecting alg sovn ladience. 4 am
not unaware that tsrv szrsa' '5;Aopie who don "
like babies, and f0 ssh iii of thean al d
faf fae tEe Tsgy dsS' 0UtSsf fSs /. ~ sS9 g
people who won axv drer lun der All iii b
cumstances, and aBpsher class y hisn regards il
them as encumbianees VIII wait q minute / a
for them to retirs Ehey1a u terry ppworsby y Y '
of any cOnsideratien.Ai and the sc K ton will show
them out by the sfsftest possible r0ute a
Those foolish and inconsiderate peopls who II
are so troubled With their children tbat they ~
entrust their sole care to nurses and governesl
ses and known ais little OF them as they do Of Is
the children of their next door neighbor, may
remain or not, as chey choose They may pos
sibly hear of something to their advantage.
| If there be Mr.. Dombey in my audience II
who dotes upon one child because he is boy,
and freezes the life out Of the other because
she is girl, he can go, too. If there be
Mr.. Gradgrind in my audience, who is so hard
listed, hard headed, and hard-hearted so cal
lOus to everything that is beautiful and good !;
so corroded and eaten up with the petty and |
paltry itch of money-grubbing that he looks
upon children only in the light of utility, or as |
nuisances to be tolerated only upon the plea of
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nothing which will please him.
The sexton will show all these people the
door; but let me say to them, as they retire,
that everything In nature moves in a circle.
Just as surely as the ship which sails due east
from given point will return to that point
again, if it sails long enough just as surely as
the flower springs from the seed and returns
to the seed again just as surely as the planets
revOlve around the sun, just so surely will they,
springing from childhood, go round in the cir
Gle until they get to childhood again. And
in that second childhood they will be vastly
more troublesome than they were in the first.
They should, therefore, have some regard and
sympathy for that condition to which the
whirligig of time is taking them so fast In
that second childhood, my dear friends, your
hair will grow scanty, your teeth will fall out,
your hands will grow weak and your legs shaky,
your voice will rise from the manly bass to the
r childish, piping TREBLE and somebody, after
: placing bib round your neck, may have to
!, feed you with a spoon. You will, probably,
be more peevish, fuzzy and troublesome than
l. half dozen children.
/ And now invite all gentle souls who love
/; children as they love the birds and flowers
e who love the music of their little pattering
Is feet; who love the quaint little songs they
|. sing; who love even their little fits of anger,
o which come and go like April showers and
n who live in their love, as sweet and fresh as
:, the perfume of that pink and white tube rose
at which kind friend sent me the other day (nOv
n nearly pulled to pieces by the ruthles Mignon
= who will persist in wearing them in her halr)-
to all these gentle souls invite to remain
| confess | have not hitherto done justice tt
ID Aurelia's baby. | have intimated it was
Ill wonderful baby-no great admission however
8, when all babies are wonderful. But if Azure
1g las baby was wonderful when it could on
gh wink and blink what do you suppose tt is now
lie when it can walk and talk? Our breakfas
k table chat is now principally made up of tn
be smart and precocious things that child doe
as and says. Aurelia relates them to Old Blobb
a as the old man sits there slipping his Breakfas
Oolong, which Fow Chow or Sing Man-Sine
asst or some other monosyllabic Celestial sent hel
ed the other day from China, and Old BlObbs Ii
tens patiently and quietly, now and then wit
fe, smile upon his dear old face, as she tells tt
be wonderful doings.
Der L think these little people have quick
wn dscernment Of beauty than we grown-up pc
eat pie, and that they see it with clearer visio
,he Aurelia's baby was sitting at the window, Il
ho other evening, watching the leaves of the tire
lrt- as they rustled in the wind. The very fir
eep question, of course, went right to the found
lad ton of things: "What is the wind mamma
cir And then Aureia attempted scientific de
was milton of the wind which should be integit
nd to the young intellect. The wonderful baby
uld once discarded Aurelia' definition, and insi
ned ed upon it that the wind was Gods breat
ngs At another time while watching the stars
his they peeped out, one after another, she W
to confident that there were cracks in the sky, a
ap- that Gods Heaven was shining through.
hey an other time yhink she summed up wol
hey of poetry and reflection in asingle line ItW
nat a cold, cheerless day In the late autumn. L
'ict- sky was elouded over. The trees were strip
that of their leaves, and the flower stalks In
do garden were yellow and sere. The ground v
ver- frozen slightly, and everything wore an air
illip cheerless d, ISOLATION. The wonderful ba
ally, contemplated the scene for minute, and tn
Dioy turning to Aurelia, said, The world is pre-
- nearly worn out, mamma" Could any
wife, have expressed the effect more tersly or m
. beautifully? Was there not genuine feel
Then of poetry in the simplicity and truth OF
Lrag- thought?
pos Sometimes Aurelia's baby will bring te
pic into all our eyes with some sudden excal
: his tion; for Aurea's baby once lost little sl
soon to whom she was deeply attached-a little sl'
,ture who was only bud that never unfolded
Tom petals to the light of Heaven, but dropped
the died, and now sleeps very quietly under
le to in the beautiful R0sehill-thatis, all other
louis angles did not carry away with them TO Tie
en-. And when Aurelia's baby, who knew
a.~s her little sister was buried under the tree,
.fut- vet had been told that she was in Heaven,
coop, comprehenjing the apparent discrepal
,. FIVE wanted to know if God had come down In
and night and taken her away from under the t
over when we were. not looking is it any woI
,unk that all our faces grew serious at the break
oung table, and that some OF our eyes were aim
d an over2
rried Sometimes Aurelia grows impatient and
t and nigh despondent at the total depraVlty OF
uzzle wonderful baby. 1t was only day or two
ture, that she was dressed upln neat, cean RAIN
xplo and went out into the yard to play with ano
'oung wonderful baby. And when Aurella went
5 and to look after them, what had these wond'
g the babies done2 1t was certain that these
foot with dirt, and resembled two youlg Di
ouet. Indians. Dirt on their clothes, dirt in