The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-21
Kissing the Baby.

tropoIis, few evenings since, was a
lady with baby.
One Of the blue-eyed, growing,
happy babies, disarranging its white
robes, and rumpling its blue ribbons,
with all the abandon of baby VINO
is secure of a fresh supply of love and
clothes.-The mother was evidently a
stranger to the other ladi 8 in the car,
yet all of them smiled when they
looked In her direction, and many OF
them spoke to her and seemed to
love her for the sake OF the beautiful
child.
The opening instinct OF. woman
hood seems to be the love OF babies,
and the girl must be a very little one
that does not want doll to which
she can play the sweet part of moth
er. The depth and purpose of the
instinct are revealed to us in the pc
tition Of the little Miss offive years,
who happened to be an only child
"Mamma. | want a baby to play
with, meat baby, m.mna.
No kinder blessing was ever be-
slowed than In the close of Fanny
FERNS letter to the newly-married
Princess Royal of England: "And
when brightest of all others, the
crown of maternity shall set on your
youthful brow, God grant you that
incest of all places on earth to cry
a mothers BOSOM
Yet, while the instinct of matern-
ity is peculiar to women, and marks
her sex more plainly than rounded
limbs or gentle manner, it is not to
women and girls alone that the love
of babies is confined.
1t was the lot OF the writer to dwell
in the white tents at Camp Harrison,
Georgia that lower part of the
State where families are far between
and much more so at war times. For
weeks we had not seen a woman or
a child.
At last the railroad through the
camp was repaired, and in the first
train there was a lady, with just
such a wide-awake kicking baby as
the one of the metropolis. Some
hundreds of rough soldiers were
around the cars, and Capt. Story, of
the 57th Infantry was the biggest
and toughest among them, if we may
judge the tree by the bark.
The lady with the baby in her
arms was looking from window,
and the Captain took off his hat and
said-"Msdamm | will give you five
dollars if you will let me kiss that
baby" One look at his bearded
face convinced her that there was
nothing bad in it, and saying with
a pleased laugh, 81 do not charge
anything for kissing my baby" it
was handed over. The little one
was not afraid, and the bushy whis
kers was just the playhouse it had
been looking for.
More than one kiss did the Cap
tain get from the little red lips, and
there was energy in the hug of the
little round arms. Then other voices
said ''pass him over Cap" and be-
fore the train was ready to move half
hundred m n had kissed the baby.
1t was on it's best behavior, and
crowed and kicked, and tugged at
whiskers, as onlyaa happy baby can.
It was an event OF the campaign, and
one giant Of a mountalneer, who pass
cd us with the tread of mammoth,
tdaf- dimmed eyes and quivering lip,
said, by George it makes me feel
and act like fool +: but I've one just
like it at home"
Other lands have owned the power
of this young Immortality, and the
Hindoo halls the little stranger with
the words, Young child, as thou
hast entered the world in tears when
ali around thee smiled, so live as to
leave the world in smiles while all
around thee weep."-B0stOn Gu
sct5e.
On Saturday, the I'd inst, an old
Kelley by the name Of h:gslitt, . we'll
So-do farmer OF tho town OF Medina,
who has lived n state Of single bless
,,ness for So yer r,avz;;od an i'm
mate.e maiden nsnod Celia Oliver,
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