The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-22
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BABIES RIGHTS.

We hear Of mems rights, women's rights
boys rights, girls rights who will take up
the pen in defense Of babies rights Ba-
bies certainly have some rights which are
100 frequently denied them. One which is
the right to its own mothers care and su.
pervision. The mother may not be strong
enough to hold the child or carry it out
for it's airings all through its months Of
helplessness. Very often it is much better
for both mother and child that the help OF
a strong, healthy nurse is secured TO assist
in the care Of the babes; still, no matter
how worthy Of trust we may consider
nurse or servant, babe who's lifelong hap
pincss may depend on the way it's baby
hood is passed is too precious to be given
unreservedly to her care. One very hot
August day not very long since, as was
enjoying the grateful shade from the
fierce MONDAY sun, on my own cool
piazza, was startled by the
pitiful wall Of babe Upon looking up |
saw an elegant baby carriage wheeled by
colored nurse coming down the street while
the poor little victim Il can call it nothing
else inside OF the perambulator was with
ing sobbing, and moaning in It's discomfort.
Stepping to the gate called to the nurse
to stop, and releasing the little
creature from its nest of hot pill.
lows | took il in my arms, carried it in the
shade-soothed, famed and comforted il
until with a sweet smile on its beautiful,
innocent, face it dropped to sleep on my
bosom. "Whose child is it, enquired of
the nurse, who had dropped IN a chair and
was tanning herself vigorously "Mrs.--,'
she replied. us that possible exclaimed.
She lives fully mile from here. Surely
you were not going to carry the child all
that distance through this blistering
sun, and does the mother know that
YOU have it so far from homer
were my eager questions, ooh, she does not
care where I take it so take good care OF
it. She is not afraid to trust me" Can 1t
be thought that mother could be so de-
ceived IN nurse, or is she culpably care
less of the welfare and comfort Of the
innocent creature God has given to her care
ALI no wonder so many little cherubs
change their dainty dresses for their tiny
shrouds while yet in their helpless infancy,
Another right that babies are often denied
is the right to be alone A healthy babe
coolly and loosely dressed, judiciously fed
aud frequently bathed will be good-natured
and happy if 1t is not nursed and fondled
too much have seen sweet baby lying
in its little crib looking at its
hands, cooling and Growing to itself in just
the sweetest baby fashion, when in would
come some one snatch it up, smother 1t
: with kisses, bounce and jump it up and
down until its tranquility and good nature
was completely destroyed; then those I'M
reasonable people would wonder what was
the matter with baby that II is SO restless
and uneasy, After baby's wants are sup
piled it should be allowed to quietly Sleep
rest and grow, instead Of keeping 1t forever
in motion, and wantonly destroying It's
peace and contentment How can we o.
pect babe to be otherwise than uneasy,
nervous and fretful, when II is wildly
caught up every hour in the day, bounced
aud trotted and petted until It Is thoroughly
out of sortsl How would fathers and
mothers endure the martyrdom to which
they allow the babies to be sublectedf
LA. M.
Cairo. H. Auc, 81, 1880.