River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-08-28
Hints About Babies.

Babies are such unusual things--so
rarely seen or heard-that all creation
are certain TO be interested in YOURS
Therefore, when yours arrive have a grand
publication over it! Talk about it as if
there mad never been baby born since
Cain first came INTO this world of "sin
and sorrown
Tell how he smiled and cried and
kicked up his little toes, and opened his
eyes as if he were so surprised to think
he had got herel
Turn the whole house upside down for
him No matter about the comfort of the
rest of the household The baby must be
seen to! Muffle the door-beIl--it might
disturb baby! Let Bridget go in her
stocking feet--creaking shoe aurt baby's
nerves. Turn the cat out doors-she
might suck baby's breath. Kill the dog
he might run mad and bite baby. Take
grandpa's pipe away--tobaccc smoke
will snuff baby up so.
Show him to every body who comes in.
Don't slight even the baker or butcher
show Them that you are not stuck up.
you can let even tradesman see your
baby - cat may look at King
When you have callers. take baby
down to the parlor and display HIM TO
the best advantage. Let everybody hold
him little, and shake him a little, and
kiss ! i'm little, and chuck him under
the chin, and pinch his legs, and feel OF
his bald head, and pull open his watery
little staring eyes to see if they are the
color Of his pas or his mas.
Let them toss him and trot him, and
cry boo! at HIM to their hearts content.
BY and by, when he gets old r ard the
troubles of life come thick upon him, it
will comfort him to look back upon this
period Of his existence and remember
that after all there can he nothing more
in store for him than he has already gone
throueh-he has been baby in family
that admired HIM.
Fathers should cultivate whiskers to
their fullest extent, so as to afford the
baby chance to exercise its pulling pro-
pensiUies. Babies are notorionsly good
when they have such whiskers as they
like to pull. Next 10 whiskers comes
hair. Hair is almost equal to whiskers
as a means Of diversion for csc house
hold pets. Fathers should never wear
their halr shOrt-it discourages baby,
dlId - u SICbl wrong ~ nm. DdDlGs
have rights as we'll as we older people
A long nose is u splendid thing in a
family where there is a baby. 1t affords
baby so much innocent amusement in
twisting and pinching ana tufaing it up,
and is such help to thought and caicula-
ton. as to the best chance of seizIng it
unawares and making the most of it.
1t you want your baby to be healthy,
give INN occasional doses of all the adj
vertised nostrums of the day adapted to
his age. He Will be likely to have worms,
SO you will be safe in giving him worm
strip quite often to warn the orms that
you are on the lookout for them, and that
fate Is certain if they do .amoo
Keep the catnip tea a-stewing, and the
soothing-sirup handy, and let him eat all
the candy and raw apples he wants, and
you'll find times lively and soothlng-sir-
up convenient thing TO have in the
house.
If he cries for anything, let him have
it no matter if it be his fathers watch,
or his grandma's spectacles, or Aunt Sal
ley's favorite poodle let him have it.
Don't cross him; yol II break his spirit.
Take him out With yoa whenever you
go anywhere. Everybody will want to
see the baby. And all the dogs and cats
in the house you visit will be delighted
that they have got ears and tails for him
to pull. That is if they are brought up
as cats and dogs should be.
Never mind if your hostess does show
a wry face when her favorite tabby is
holsted up by the scruff of her neck, and,
yowling and splitting, is called by you a
''nasty thing" and told to get out and
stop growing at baby; let baby have his
fun. He must play with something
He is so sweet and so cunning
Expect everybody to praise him, and
see all the loneliness in him that you see,
and despise all wae do not, and call
them stupid old things, and say they are
envious.
Don't try to make baby mind till he IS
two or three years old. Before that time
he is not old enough to know what YOU
mean; and after at time he will be too old
10 know what you mean; 50 you can save
yourself all trouble in this regard, if you
let him go his own gait till he is three
years old.
Whom he gets 50 as to talk, always let
him help you TELL everything. Children
are such keen observers. If you say a
thing happened yesterday, and he says
it happened day before yesterday, let him
have his way. 1t will make his temper
sour To- contradict him.
If you begin story, and he takes it
out OF your mouth, sit still in silent all
miration, and be thankful that you have
so "bright'a child!
And by the time you have brought up
a dozen children according to these rules
(Which are the rules by which most peo
pie seem to bring up their children)you
will realize fully what great and q full
responsibility ii is to have the training OF