The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-11
Utilization OF Babies.

pleasure" 1 like Upper, for Their
amt no nonsense about him. his
poetry is ez easy to reed ez prose,
and he never goes meandrin of out
nv the grasp nv the intelleck nv the
most humble. 700 kin digest Tup-
Der ez easy ez you KIN pumkln pie.
But I didn't intend to stray OF into
the field nv criticism.
Babies Wuz alluz my espesnl aver
shun. A baby is q thing to be TAX
an care NV, not q thing TO take care
Of ANYBODY. else. Babies are ex-
V,cusive. and he who beZ his culver
mil nv that kind nv arrers, must ex-
poet TO devote hisself religiously to
Them, and. by jist so much, neglect
hissaiR. Taking care of others and
n0glectin myself WIZ never my
best holt. | am well adapted to
bsin taken care nv.
It Wuz, therefore, with feellns Nv
profound disgust l saw the hrst NV
tie Nasbys impendin, l didn't like
il. / objected to It not only on ak
kount NV myself, but on Maria's,
the wife NV my buZm. That excel
lent woman wuZ milliner, and
felt that il wuz cuff for her to take
careuV me, without hevIn piled on
60 her the burden nv another; and
besides, woodent the cost NV car1n
for that addishnel one lessen my
comforts? am not selfish.
kuowd that q woman with q child
cooient care for her customers and
SIlt through her housekeepin ez
well with q child ez she could with |
out. Ez il wuz, she could give her
whole mind to me and the shop
the shop takin care nv me ez ought
90 be cared for. l murmured.
HMy dear" sed Marier, Qt wuz
the first, and she wnz still loVln),
shy deer, it's a fine boy, and can't
VOC take some comfort In the re-
1eckshun that in yoor declinin
yAers 700 will hev some one to lean
upon? Think NV thatP
any DEER" replide, " 1 amt a
discountin the fncher. The present
In good enough for me, l thank 700.
A bird in the hand il worth great
many in the bush, and can't see
the pint nv taking that boy thro
Bcarlit fever, mumps, measles, collc,
and other diseases incident to child
hood, uv payin for books, schoolin,
cloze, and ct setrer, on the hope Nv
his takin care Nv me in my seer and
yaller leef. 1 hev TO take the chan
ces NV his bein billiard player, or
Nv stndyin medicin, or turnin re-
former, or any of them nnprofitble
okkepashuns."
sed this to let Marian know that
IWuZ displeased, so that she wood
be more keerful 10 please. me in ev-
erything else.
But wat she sed sunk deep into
my hart all the same. ri John
witch is wat we named the boy,
ehood grow up, and shood inherit
the disposishun NV his sainCed moth
or, he wood support me, and posi-
bly, through his earnest efforts !
Good go thro the balance Nv the
valley and shadder IN comparative
comfort. wuZ finely reconciled.
Time rolled On,and there WIZ All
other addid TO the fold, witch wuz a
girl.
"Mariar," wuz my remark, "ihi' is
too much. The boy was incubus,
but hev borne i, looking to The
fucher. But wat kin girl do 7
She is q expense from The time Nv
her birth till she gets of yoOr hand .
shudder wen | think wat that pu-
ny girl will cost US, and wat we hey
got to 60 thro on it's account.
And in a bitter mood l sot down
with my he'd in my hands, like one
whose fucher is gloomy. Up spoke
Marian, once more:
my dear, Imogene will grow up
into q fine womsn, and when she
Is twenty-four-"
"Why not seventeen ~
Seventeen be it. Wien she Il
seventeen she will marry q rich old
man. You kin do better out OY q
son-ln-law than 700 kin out ov &
son, for the son-in-law will be in
love with the girl, and q man in
love kin be made to do any thing
For yoor sake, deer, hope all OuI
children will be girls"
Agin 1 pondered. It wood not
be q bad thing to hev 8 rich son-in-
law, to whom 700 Good go and Dor
rer ten dollars every time you need
ed it. Wat son-in-law In this chris
chen land wood let his father-in-
law, the author nv his wife's bein,
go dry for the lack of few paltry
dollars? And besides, If he didn't
like it, and he saw any chance ny
tee old mans drinkin hisself to
oeth, he woodent be mean about fur.
nishin the supplies that wood has.
ten that conclushen. Wat a gleri.
Gus dethl / accepted the dawter,
and bore Mariar's increest labers Il
pervide for it with resignashun.
Need narate how one follereC
another in rapid succeshun--hov
the number increest till there wui
ten nv EN-, aud how eagerly / look
ed foFFed to the time when shood
rest from Marier's lsbers, aud sit
down under their vines and fig
trees, and enjoy life.
It wuz q terrible strane on Ma
riar, and l sympathized with her
The children coat money eZ we'll e.
laber. Them children cost me, il
round numbers, 5000 each. Multi
ply this by ten, and you have tn,
comfortable sum Nv $4,000, witch
these addishens to the census sub
tracted from Mariar's earnins, wicl
wuz list that much taken from me
But ez it wuz goin on, never re
belled or mnrmured. Ez i lookeG
at John, 1 remarked to myself
"Yoo will be q lawyer and viii
distikshen and fees. That distink
shen l will share, and likewis
the fees; Marian, 700 shell mar
ry well, and your husband will b
my prop aud stay" Sammy des
tined for the ministry. Tom 70
bankin, and the others down to tn
girl in the cradle he'd arranged il
my minds eye, so ez tn make me 81
incum.
Ez looked over them children
felt rich. looked upon them ez 81
investment, better than life inshoo
rance or savings banks. The lu
NV child for it's parent is more Ger
tain than bang or life inshoorance
They may brake but nRcher can't b
wiped ont. nohow, and lie certain t
endoor. And in most States Their
isa law compellin children to tax
keer nv their parents, whether the
want to or not.
And so communin with myself
let Marian work for them ehildre
ez much as she chose to. I founi
myself looking with solisitood o
them offspring, and saw to it ths
the wuz kept in good kondisher
and not expozed to emmy diseze ths
WIZ likely to prove fatle. My sc
lfsffnnd want an fIlr that on one az