The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-10-01

baby Department \ great crowd assem-
hlcd in City Hall to await the raising OF
the curtain behind which the babies We're
~ he arranged. We copy from tie re-
port
BEHIND THE SCENES.
Ii was allowed few choice spirits of
The male gender only, fathers of large
families. to get a toothold behind the
scenes The preparations for the awful
hour Of eleven were on an immense scale
Ladies gathered and tossed their babies in
air and compared biographical facts.
There were about thirty little urchins and
urchinesses in all-some too old to Join the
competltion-as healthy a lot of cherubs
i YOU very often see together, with
cheeks like beds of spices, lips like lilies
.r any other properly cultivated vegetable.
This selected audience behind the scenes
was admirably cared tor by the Executive
Agricultural officers who tossed irettul
upitS into the air, emptied their pockets
Ut watches, keys and knives in vain effort
d. repress their untutored vocal organs.
Elegantly We're the infants clad-tucks,
a-e bibs tlills, sashes long white robes
such as are put into angelic groups UNI
mtortably poised in mid air by those
persons whom everybody calls the old
masters
The Youngsters We're remarkably club
oN and well-ted and not few of them
y eve aside hosting III their morning re-
tre~hment through bottles-this is a Maine
Jaw State and in other pre-ordained
NAYS Ii must be said to the credit of the
TILE round angels that they We're remark
ttlN good natured-especially consider
ng the ueyer-to-he-torgotten blunder of
ln, lrlsteeS iii The matter of the hour be
fore named
There We're babies in the body of the
Hail which screamed Justify. but the prize
babies, were they not all models of good
conduct tor persons having SO slight eX
terience in the world Indeed is it not
lrne that most at us behave the worst the
older we crow But let philosophy rest
Ig~l now rest
ltihe babies were good natured-what
cannot he said OF the mothers They were
The most amiahie of mothers-not without
4n under current OF anxiety skilltully con
.5c.lei-hul vet models OF kindly nature
And Is Benjamin Franklin or Martin Van
Buren, was tossed about by the trustees,
tlEing It'll the official watch chair-who
~ouid be surprised it We should affirm
ihat never did the nursery reach a more
.ra state in this un.ideal world And
i,rr let Us say that of all gentlemen skill
IA' I'D trltlimg with babies. commend us to
,nr Treasurer Mr. Hubbard. He i q
treasure indeed, for family man
AL lhl~ time these momentous babies
WEIR cuvertly inspected by their proud
fathers IN interstices of scenery, from be-
mind painted columns and impossible
palm trees You heard our old friend of
Ihv feminine dictionary as often rs you
heard the ladies open their lips just as
ruunn rs She can be" ''Aint she cunninr
Awful cunnin isn't She ?" and that other
Rord--'>weet 4" Awful big one for three
months old. amt she, says an elderly
adv drawing the words deliberately from
The bottom of her breast
here was a half hour absorbed in re-
lined interviews about arrangement OF
robe~. IN curling top-knots, in by-low
baby-bnnting and general rehearsal OF
that high literary authority, Mother Goose,
some Of the cupids persisted in capering
4buul and SOillng their robes. Others bur
rowing IN elegant caprices OF needlework,
7rQwed for JOY over mammals neck with
dainty hands and snowy arms and cheeks |
ylushinE like the sunny side OF a Baldwin !
apple
some ot the mothers-nearly all We're |
emarkably Young and pretty-tound oc
aston lor doubt as 10 the prize falling 10 |
heir babes on the ground that Mrs. |
3lank baby was more richly dressed, but |
" We're assured the committees heart |
nd been fortified SO far as that imperfect
influences
he ladies who had babes above the |
caring age. We're quite caustic in their |
emaks and demanded that next year |
lrlze~ be given tor two, as well as one
ear Odds 1t was now within fifteen min
te> Of the crisis. and the impatient crowd
ya~ crying ion a view of the babies. The
ammttee serious under the weight of
heir great responsibility, hurried to per-
CT the arrangements The cherubic
haps We're arranged in great semi-circle
h4rUHiug sight-these thirty babes in
rms dimpling with laughter. throwing
Arir snowy arms into the air at nothing
I ali. and swinging in their chubby hands
lttle~ and 800 Trustee watches, indif-
rently and wildly. The little kids en-
we'd ii as highly as anybody. Some with
.@ked feet and legs, fascinated the wo-
aauIF heart which put forth this express
au See that little cunnin' thing, only
tree months Gld-its an awful handsome
.aby
President Prince within feather brush in |
u.s. hands proceeded TO get AL the little |
lies in smiling order aud then gave or |
ist~ ta HE JanitOr to raise the curtain
THE CURTAIN IS LIFTED.
IL would of course be impossible to ex-
-ggerate the sensation that thrilled the |
-nale heart when the curtain was raised |
md showed the various Growers 1t was |
ill., ply 4 crisis In feminine existence.
Quite prompt to the appointment at II |
4 ~ The cherube throng was displayed. |
And Lot alone the cherubs-their ances- |
or also the confident matron. certain |
hat the best babe in the universe was the |
babe which She tenderly folded to her |
bosom Here We're mothers who had |
.Aken along with them their four, five, |
~N, eight, or ten pledges of affection,
making Independent professions which
several gentlemen who had never had any
copies of themselves demanded, looked
.H with enormous eyes All the while,
.i course. there was any amount of tom
l00lery with the babies. They were poked
4nd oyerhauled, and tickled almost to
death There were babes colicy and bu-
eolcy babes pursy, babes bald as a young
robin, and babes with ringlets tawny with
The moons OF Paradise, Cor words to that
fleet The babes entered for premiums
we're by no means the only babes present,
but babes spectatorially contributed, roost-
4ug on papa's shoulder, growing in man.
ma lap, or in grandma's lap crying for
Mrs Williams and her miserable pare
goric Little coteries of mothers put their
heads together and harmoniously agreed
that there was no SO good looking babies
present as theirs. But let them say what
They may, there We're many little clubs
IN attendance-dimity chaps who would
knock You down with their sweetness, if
vou had any heart for snowy robes and
The little rascals inside OF 'em, who have
iust opened like April buds, and don't care
a.damson tor this unintelligible world, SO
BE- il tactical refreshment and their ark are