Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-05
Queer Th,nxs About Babies.


A great many curious things happen 70
babies, in this round world Of ours, that
the readers Of Our Young Folks probably
never heard of: One thing is-planting
them. This is done by the mothers
OF Guinea, and isn't half 10 dreadful rs it
sounds: The mother digs q hole in tho
ground, stands baby into it, and then
packs the warm sand about him to keep
h'm in place, AZ you would set out a rose.
bush: 1t keeps HIM out of miechief, and
he Gun play in the sand while his mother
works. All day long he stays in his odd
crib, and ut night when she 10 done with
her work, he is dug out. When this agri.
cultural mother wants to carry baby
about she ties him into little chair,
which she straps to Der back. If it is
some very grand occasion, he 10 dressed
neatly in stripes Of white paint, and oraa.
mented with dozens of brass bracelets and
rings on arms and legs. A fanny.look,ng
baby no must be-! II you don't fancy q
crib Of sand for baby, what do you think
OF olg shoe, stuffed with moss to make
1t comfortablef Tho droll little Laps
cradle their babies in that way. Tho
SHOE 10 large, Of course, and made of rein.
a. 1eer skin: It comes up high Ut tho back,
nE . the clippers We wear nowadays, and
IL turned up ut the toss. The moss with
which 1t is stuffed is the famous reindeer
moss, soft and white, and the odd little
olaek'eyed baby looks very comfortable
hanging from tree, or slune across it's
mothers back. Perhaps this baby that
lives in shoe il NO moro comical than Tho
baby who lived in tur.bsg, another 70.
Der little black eyed baby, away of in the
sh'very Esquimaux huts. Besides being
cuddled up in . tur-bag At bis mothsr's
back, this round faced little fellow wears
tur-hood, and looks like some strange
kmd OF animal peeping into the world.
You may have seen the Indian baby or
Papoose, bound fiat to a board. Ono tribe
the Flat heads, make rude sort of bark
or willow.work, and wrap the baby
little man." they call HMM piece Of
blanket, strap him tightly to tho boz, and
hang it across two sticks. Besides this,
the unfortunate little fellow has board
bound over bis forehead to mako him q
Flathead. Even the Russian peasant
mother cradles Dor baby ON q square
board hung from tho wall BY strings at
S'ssA oV10oE1 AA0 us0 pan IN DAl0nCo.
In India. the funny little black babies
either sit on their mothers hips and hold
on by clasping their hands over her
shoulders, or they take airy rides ON her
head, These babies are elegantly dressed
in armletr, bracelets, anklets, 6nger-rines,
toe'ringn earrings and nose.riggs. As to
clothes, they don't need many whom they
wear 60 much jewelry. China babies
not dolls, but babies that live in China
are sadly in the way among tho poor.
Sometimes they are graded in q bag on
their mothers back, and sometimes thew
are tied to the backs Of older children who
60 about Us il they had no such load.
Many poor Chinese live in boats ON the
river, and the baby that comes in such q
family is TEDDY a long repe to the mast.
1t is long enough to let the child creep
around, but not long enough to let him
fall overheard. There is another curious
custom regarding babies which prevails in
some parts of China. If ono dies it is not
buried, as older people are; it 10 thrown
out carelessly, and crackers arc fred of,
at the door. Here and there, at the cor.
ners of streets, charitable people build
small houses with openiogs to drop The
neglected little bodies in, and that Is all
tho burial they get-Yosng Folks fo1
May.