The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-19
What a Vigorous Population is Accom-.
plishing for Minnesota Town.
From the Winona fMinn., Republica n

L FROM tne W lnOnd \IAlluu hcpuDuCdH
This is great summer for babies in
Winona. Three ten-pounders were ushered
into this breathing world simultaneously on
Sunday night, while the late arrivals Of lesser
calibre may be counted by the score in every
ward. Said a gentleman to this reporter
yesterday, himself the proprietor Of recent
twins : This is wonderful prolific season
the most prolific, in fact that | have ever
known. Why, | can stand here at my
gate and throw stones into the yards Of seven
houses where babies have come to light
within four days. tell you business is brisk,
the city is on the high road to prosperity, and
we are preparing to astonish the next taker OF
the census My opinion is, that the Board Of
Education ought to make arrangements for
building another new school-house right
away. 1t will be needed" The reporter
looked into the eye of this parent and saw
that he was man OF truth.
Presently he had aurcular proof that what
had Just been impaired to him by the man
of family was not all fable, for through the
open doors and windows of the seven stona-
bic dwellings there came to his ear the unmis-
taxable music OF infantile humanity. The
newlyfarrived mortals were evidently trying
to out-squall each other, and when the twins
lifted their lusty voices in concord and
chmed in with the chorus, the cha n of evil
dence was complete. Fancy this prosperous
state of things to prevail throughout the city
as we are assured it does-and the dullest
imagination may conceive what must be the
immediate and remote consequences Of this
unprecedented fecundity No wonder that
our city doctors all men of temperate habits
and iron constitutions a jaded and
weary look For weeks they have slept with
one and both ears open. expectant OF the mid
night summons. For days they have eaten
hurried meals at irregular intervals, and
lunched on the streets while hurrying from
patient to patient till they have become models
Of perpetual motion. Soothing syrups and
paregoric have 'sriz the demand being far
ahead Of the supply; the nurses wet and dry
the Sairey Camps aud Betsey Pngs OF the
period rush to and fro disheveled and dis
tracted by the impossibility Of being in two
places at once, harassing thesssouls of newly
made fathers with demands double and triple,
backward and forward pay; incoming trains
baby things; whistles and rattles are the stock
in trade of the music stores, while pianos and
organs are dumb; cabs and cradles have
usurped the warehouses and depot platforms,
crowding neglected mowers and reapers to
the wall foolish-looking fellows trying to
look proud ana pleased are exchanging hearty
congratulations on all the street corners
the memories of maiden aunts are being ran
sacked and torn up in search of new names;
grandmothers are in their native element, and
put on airs OF preternatural wisdom; two and
three year-old noses are hopelessly out Of
Joint, and the owners thereof thrust into cor
ners and systematically neglected - these
wretches having no rights that nurses are
bound to respect; unmarried people are at a
heavy discount, and are made in various ways
to feel their uselessness and insignificance;
while the secret snubbing and open raillery
to which unfortunate childless couples are
subjected is truly painful to the unprejudced
mind. Fortunately these cases are few and
far between in this truly vigorous and grow
ing community. Glory to the new babies
long may they wave