Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-08-28
HOW A MAN TAKES CARE OF HIS BABY.

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HOW A MAN TAKES CARE OF HIS BABY.
In spite of all the statements to the con-
trary, there are men who help take care of
their children. They are the kindest and
best husbands IN the world. They do not
wish to see their wives overburdened with
care and worry, and they intend to help
them a great deal, and actually do. Yet it
cannot be denied that their opinion concern
ing the value of their services and their
wives opinion OF the same subject do not
exactly coincide. One of these good hus-
bands will help dress the children for break
fast, and speak of it with a grandly virtuous
air, while the fact is that he only washed
the face of one while his wife washed and
dressed the other three. He helps get the
children ready for church that is, he but
tons up Dicks boots, and helps Jenny put
on her gloves after he has l~eisurely and
comfortably dressed himself, while his wife
ties sashes, and hunts up odd gloves, and
puts on collars, and curls one cilild's hair
and washes another's hands, and in the in
tervals ''does up" her w hair, and saves
the baby from the razor, and Jenny's best
bonnet from the baby. He stands patiently
(?) in the hall as the bells begin to toll, and
mildly calls, cit is getting late, Maria.''
Which fact Maria knows as well as he does,
tor her hands are trembling so with nerv-
BUSINESS and haste that she can hardly put a
single pin in its right place. just as the
last strokes of the bell are sounding, they
hurry off to church, losing entirely the
calming influence which comes from q leis-
urely walk on a fine Sunday morning. He
takes the opportunity to remark, with just
a shade of reproof in his gentle tones, s.
can't understand why it takes you so long
to get ready. It really does seem as il with
as much as do TO help you, we need not
be obliged to hurry SO at the last minute. |
don't like to see you go up the aisle with
your face as red as a lobster,'' which of
course is very soothing to Maria's irritated
nerves.
The father cares for the baby at night in
very much the same fashion. The mother
has lifted the child into her w bed, and
back into its cradle again, in the vain hope
that in one place or the other he will go to
sleep, has brought s'drinks Of water" for
him, rocked the cradle and sung TO its UNI
easy occupant softly and sieepily for an
hour, till finally she thinks that it she is to
be in this senai-anphi6ious state, half out of
bed and halt in, the air from the open win
dow is too cool for her. She knows ii she
tries to shut it herself the little tyrant will
instantly miss her presence and be ten times
wider awake than ever, and all the hours
singing and rocking will be labor lost. So,
with much regret, she softly asks John to
get up and close the window. He has lain
remarkably still and breathed rather heavily,
and is somewhat difficult to arouse for a
man who afterward declares he was wide
awake all the time. But like the good has
band he is, he cheerfully closes the window,
and gets an extra blanket for the baby, and
pleasantly asks as he settles down into the
pillows again, :" What makes the baby SO
uneasy to-niglt?" He manifests a strange
Indifference to his wifers reply, and in fact
nothing more is heard Gtom han till morn