The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-22
A SOCIAL cMAMoE.
c. N. Hai~y, ia Pas li anale creesr.l

! Ic. N. Haiey. in Pas Handle Greest,l 1 Thers has lately been sled q ths patent office in WAsAangton, an appli. catioA tos caveAt of an automatic Nur. sery Girl and Baby Soosher. which upou i it's ultimate introduction will create such harmony in our domestic aud family re- lations that cav,lers at the married state and erusty old bachelors wili be toreves silenced when they see that the seares oi father are robbed of their tersoas and the raising of our infants becomes . triumph of mechanical skill instead d the tedious and unsatisfacsory process ia presen, use. thus taking the only s-gu- ment from under the feet of those who fear getting married oa account ot lossng their personal ease and their ressful sleep.
 lthas always been recognized as an in disputAble axiom that babies. in the ab- senee ot reasoning power, always take collc and other ills in the dead of the night. and knowing that the only way of communicating their distress Is by cry. ing aloud ~ith a loud voice." they just get m the habit ot seep,ng up lhis cry from pure lnhefen, eussedneSs, colic or no colc. Statistics show tha, this fact alone has prevented more marriages and has broken up more families than any oi the little ills we know not of.
 The concurrence of popular opinion has up 10 the present always conceded that wha. the baby wants and sometimes gets when he ones a, night Is walking exercise. which is usually accompanied by monotone lullaby, or mild boo hoo, sounding very pathetic through thin walls, Rash and minimizing people have been known to give myxtefious com pound known as Twenty Drops" which s,lenoes il eNectually bu, as too much
 Twenty Drops has been known to lul them te tha, ssce, sleep from which there IS no awakening, umld or careful people never use il.
 We use the pronoun f. ln reference ,e ,ke infant. adsiscdly Ne understand that single men always call the bah, ' this being one ei the Asns b, which lady knoss whether gen,lem an is a.s;i'sa 5; ne;. na; ;a ss;&;a :e es:: subject
 l'cdesulanlsm is known and admitted to be highly beneficial io people who like Il but wha, man of woman likes to walk baretooted, a seven by nIne track badly lighted, handicapped ~ith a hving we,gh, of twelve or fourteen pounds more espeelally II thete is earpet-taek k pm or nal ia the house. as Il Is sure to be found ngh, m the path of the noe iufnai walker. polut up
 To obNiaie All this our inventor brings his scheme winch h simplicity the result oi elaboration. |, consists primarily of d wlte topc, siicit he'd nom one end of the apsrtmen, to the other parallel with the side ot the bed. on which rest d iotar, pulley with pendant hook from winch hangs hammock of basket. swinging gracefully. lke a basket of flowers from clothes line. Al the bottom of ,his re. oep,aele IS another >tfing controlling the motions oi the cradle. winch an be held oy the authorities in charge ot he baby. without nsing from the fecumhcni posi- ton winch Se presume they occupy At the slightest sound from the occupant ot the s@inging basket, all there Is to bc done IS to sagh,ls pull the s,nng, winch ~iii give Ii motion equal only Ia the swaying of the tfec.tops famed by A zephyr There are other valuable attach ments. such as a music box controlled b, baby itself. and the paregofic inlee,ot, which will throw medicine. one drop at d tune. into Us mouth whenever |, gets too violent to be appeased by the other meth ods. Bu, VIC ~ill no, dwell on these, as ~e should fotes,all the interest attending on the introduction of one of the giea,es, invent ms. oale uis,ed to amehorate some of the ills that iie,h is her to. that Is the good fortune of the tomlng generation to cn}oy