The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-06-27

A great many curious things happen
to babies in this round world OF ours.
One thing Is, planting them. This IL
done by the dark-skinncd women of
Guinea, and isn't half so dreadful as it
sounds, The mother digs II hofc in the
ground, stands baby in ii, and then
packs the warm sand around him to
keep him in place, as you would set out
n rosc-bush. II keeps him out of mis-
chief, and he can play in the sand while
his mother works, All day long he stays
in his odd crib, and at night, when she
is done with her work, lac is dug out.
When this agricultural mother wants to
carry baby about, she tics him into II
little chair, which she straps to her
back. Ii II issomc very grand occasion,
he Is dressco neatly in stripes OF white
paint, and ormmcnted with dozens of
brass bracelets and rings on arms and
legs. A funny-looking baby he must
be!
Ii you don't fancy crib Of sand for
n baby, what doyou think OF big shoe,
stuffed with moss, to make it comfort
able? The droll little Laps cradle their
babies in that way. The shoe is large,
of course, and made of reindeer skin.
1t comes up high ut The back, like the
slippers we wear nowadays, and is
turned up at.the toes. The moss with
which 1t is stuffed is the famous roin-
deer moss, soft and white, and the odd
little black-eycd baby looks very COM
Portable hanging from the tree or slung
across its mothers back.
Perhaps this baby, who lives in Il
shoe, is no more comical than the baby
who lives in II fur bag, another sober
little black-cyed baby, away oil in the
shivcry EsquimauX huts. Besides being
euddled up in n fur bag ut his mothers
back, this round-iaced little fellow
wears fur hood, and looks like some
strange kind Of animal peeping out in
the world.
You may have seen the Indian baby,
OF pappoose, bound Hat to n board
POOR little creature! One trib tho
Flathcads make rude sort of Il box
of bark or wilow-work, and wrap the
baby c'littlc man. they call himl in II
piece Of blanket, strap him tightly to
the box, and hang it across two sticks.
iptoiu'S WIS, WV uiil'iNuiitlt ilttit lti-
low has u board bound over his head
to make him u Flathead.
Even the Russian peasant mother
cradles her baby on n square board,
hung from the wall 10y strings from
each corner like-thc pan in balance.
In India the funny little black babies
either sit on their mothers hips and
hold ON by clasping their hands over
her shoulder, or they take airy rides in
n basket on her head.
These babies are elegantly dressed in
armlets, bracelets, anklcts and lcglets,
liz one might make a word, finger
rings, toc-rings, earrings, and nose
rings. AS to clothes, they don't need
many when they wear so much
jcwelry.
China babies--not dolls, but babies
that live in China--are sadly in the way
among the poor. Sometimes they are
cradled in a bag on theirmothcr's back,
and sometimes they are tied to the backs
Of older children, who go about ms If
they had no such load. Many poor Chi
nesc live in boats ON the river, and the
baby that comes to such a family is tied
by long rope to the mast. IT is long
enough to let the child creep around,
but not long enough to let him fall over
board. There Is another curious custom
regarding babies which prevails in some
parts Of China. If one dies, Il Is not
buried as elder people are; 1t Is thrown
out carelessly and crackers are fired of
at the door. Here and there, Mt the cor
ners of streets, charitable people build