The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-08-26
kissing the BABY.


Tn one of the street-cars Of the me-
tropolis, few evenings since, was lady
with a baby.
One OF the blue eyed. growing babies.
| disarranging its white robes and rump-
ling its blue ribbons, with all the abandon
OF baby that Is secure in every fresh
supplies of love and clothes. The mother
was evidently stranger to the other la
dies in the car, yet all Of them smiled
when they looked in her direction, and
many of them spoke to her and loved her
for the sake of the beautiful child.
! The opening instinct Of womanhocd
| seems to De the love Of babies. and the
| girl must be a very little one that does
not want a doll to which she can play the
sweet art of mother The depth and
! purpose of the instinct are revealed to us
| in the petition of the little miss OF. five
years, who happens to be an only child
- Mamma, | want baby to play with,
Il meat baby mamma.
No kinder blessing was ever bestowed
| than in the close of Fanny Ferns letter
to the wly-married Princess Royal Of
England And when brightest of all
others, the crown of maternity shall de-
scend upon your youthful brow, God
grant you that incest of all places on
earth to cry ina mothers bosom
Yet, while the instinct of maternity is
peculiar to women, and marks her sex
more plainly than rounded limbs or gen
| tie manners. and it is not to women and
girls alone that the love Of babies is con-
! fined.
1t was once the lot OF the writer to
| dwell in the white tents at Camp Harri-
! ~ e a
| State where families are far between and
weeks we had not seen woman or child.
At last the railroad through the camp
was repaired, and IN the first train there
was lady, with just such a wide-awake
| kicking baby as the latter one Of the me-
diers were around the cars, and Captain
Story, Of the 57th Infantry, was the big
gest and toughest among them, if we
judge the tree by the bark.
The lady with the baby in her arms
was looking down from window and he
took off his hat and said, MADAM [ VIII
give you five dollars, if you will let me
kiss that baby One look at his beard
ed face told her there was nothing bad in
it, and saying with pleased laugh, Il do
/ MOI charge any IHli{5 LOT klSSlng NY pdDy.
/ 1t was handed over The little one was
not afraid, and the bushy whiskers, an
/ eighth of an ell long, were just the play
house it had been looking for
More than one kiss did the captain get
from the little red lips, and there was
energy in the hug of the little round
arias Then other voices said, Pass
him over here, Cap !" and, before the
train was ready to move half a hundred
nAsn had kissed the baby 1t was on its
best behavior, and crowed, and kicked,
and tugged at whisLers, as only a happy
baby can. 1t was an event Of the cam
paign; and one giant OF a mountaineer,
who strobe past US with tread Ike a
mammoth, but with tear dimmed eyes
and quivering lip said, BY George it
makes me feel and act like a fool but
I've got 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 allaround thee smiled
so live as to leave the world in smiles
while all around thee weep. boston
Saturday Gazette.