Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-03-11
Adjourned.
kissing the Baby.

In one of the street-cars of the metrop |
lis few evenings since was O lady with
baby.
One Of the blueeyed, growing, happy |
babies, disarranging its white robes and
rumpling it's blue ribbons with all the
abandon of a baby that is secure III ever
fresh supplies of love and clothes The |
mother was evidently stranger to the
other ladies in the car, yet all of them
smiled when they looked in her direction, |
and many Of them spoks to her aAd seem
ed to love her for the sake of tho beautiful
child. i
The opening instinct of womanhood
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 mother. The depth and
purpose of the instinct is revealed to US II
| the little miss of five years, who happen
! ed to be an only child-"Mamma, L want
baby to play with, a meat baby, mamma.
No kinder blessing was ever bestowed
than in Fanny Ferns letter to the newly
married Princess Royal Of England: 'And
when, brightest of all others, the crown of
maternity shall descend upon your youth
full brow, God grant you that incest of all
earthly places on earth tocry IN, O mothers
bosom y
Yet. while the instinct of maternity is
peculiar to woman, and marks sex more
manners, it is not to women and girls alone
that the love of babies is confined.
{ It was once the lot of the writer to
dwell in the white tents of Camp Harrison,
in Georgia, in that lower part OF the State
where families are far between, and much
more so in war times. For long weeks we
had not seen woman or child.
At last the railroad through the camp
1 was repaired, and in the first train there
was a lady, with just such 8 wide-awake,
kicking baby as the later one Of the me-
, tropolis. Some hundreds of rough sol
g diers we're around the cars, and Captain
9 Story, of the 57th Infantry, was tho big
gest and toughest among them, II we
@ Judge the tree by the bark.
The lady with the baby In her arms was
}, looking from window, and he took OF
his hat and said, MADAM, will give yor
five dollars, if you will let me kiss tho
baby" One look at his bearded face tolc
her that there was nothing bad IN It, ant
saving, with pleased laugh, 81 DO no
charge anything for kissing my baby" l
was handed over. The little one was no
j. afraid, and the bushy whiskers, an eight
10 of an ell long, were Just the playhouse
"a had been looking for.
m More than one kiss did the captain ge
n from the little red lips, and there wa
energy in the lug of the little round arms
Then other voices said, "Pass him owe
here, Capt. and, before the train wa
a. ready to move q half of a hundred me
es had kissed the baby. IL was on its bes
behavior, and crowed, and kicked, an
e, tugged at whiskers. as only Lappy bah
I'll can. It was an event of the campaign
and one giant of q mountaineer, who strod
as past "a with tread like O mammoth bu
with lear -dimmed eyes and quivering liz
said, ''By George, it makes ms feel an
u act like fool; but I've got one just lik
at it at home"
ms Other lands have owned the power
on this young immortality, and the Hindc
nat halls the little stranger with the word