The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-12-13
4 Queer Dream.

want % tell YO0s SAA1OA<Ag - -
/ queer dream I had last night. | dream
ed that many things were greatly chang
ed from what I had always been accus
toned to see them.
/ thought, for instance, that babies
mouths were no longer made as com
mon as the common shaving mug 8
the BARRIERS, but that nobody presumed
to kiss a baby until the infant had VI
gently requested the favor.
I thought that when baby's stomach
was Il to overfowing With food, th'
| homeopathic theory of siuaiila similsbat
curantnr was not followed, and instea
Iof plying him with more food to relieve
I.him from che distress occasioned by the
loverplus of food which was distressing
him, his stomach was permitted to pay
exclusive attention to getting rid of ii
present burden.
And I faneied that the young thing
was no longer tossed about until his
every bone threatened to break, when
he was very tired and wished only to be
allowed rest and sleep, nor rocked into
dizziness when the tosser had grown
weary of the tossing.
I thought, too, that the infant had
ceased being swathed in tightly rolled
wraps, and was now clothed in loosely
fitting garments which allowed him to
move his body and limbs with ease and
freedom.
/ dreamed that babies were never
whipped because their mammas had
lost their temper, and that they were
never made drunk with soothing syrup,
that their mammas might attend the
lecture, the play or the ball.
l thought that grown persons had
ceased to ask chi d his age, if his hat
or his dress or his shoes were new, or
where he got them, OF any of the ques-
tions which are considered impertinent
when addressed to an adult.
l thought that when little boy was
very tired he was not forced to give up
his comfortable chair to lady or gen.
tleman who was not tired at all, and
that when child had secured window
seat in steam car it was not taken
from him simply because he was
child.
1 thought it had become the fashion
to say "thank you" to a boy-gentleman
or miss-lady, and that eyes, sir" and
"no, ma'am," were mol onger exclusively
used in addressing gentlemen and ladies
of larger growth.
/ dreamed that little boys and little
girls were sometimes allowed to ask
questions in which their parents were
not ,oor+;ou1ar ;nto-astad oDJ 1yoro
with the same consideration
that would have been accorded them
had they been the most insuferable
adult bores you evar heard of.
thought that parents never attempt
ed to deceive their children, but always
told them the truth without prevarica-
ton or evasion.
thought that the adage, "children |
should be seen, but not heard" had be-
come obsolete, and that when child |
spoke he was listened to with the same
that would have been bestow- |
ID upon him were he twenty years
,fder.
| dreamed that because parents had /
orgotton how to whine and scold, chill
lren had failed to learn the arts of viii
ling and angry articulation.
l thought that little girls were taught
o run and romp instead Of being allow
d to sit still all day, and that keeping
heir clothing unsoiled and their mus
les faccid was not the whole of their
ducation.
thought that mothers cared more to
ee their boys with ruddy cheeks than
Fith clean hands, and that lungs and
limbs were considered as worthy of de-
elopment as brains.
l thought that parents were as polite
nd kind in talking and dealing with
heir own children as with the children
# others.
1 thought that children we're more
Ike pleasant adults because of all these
aud that adults, for
like reason, retained more of the
and ingenousness of child
ood.
Now, children, wasn't this a most
idiculous dream ?-Boston Transcript.