The Dawson journal., 1883-05-17
A Queer Dream.

want to tell you, children, of the queer
dream had last night. dreamed that
many things were greatly changed from
what had always been accustomed to see
ing them.
L thought, for instance, that babies
mouths were no longer made as common
as the common shaving mug at the barbers
but that nobody presumed to kiss baby
until the infant had urgently requested the
favor.
thought that when baby's stomach
was full to overlooking with food the
homeopathic theory of similia similibus
curanter was not followed, and instead of
plying him with more food to relieve him
from the distresses occasioned by the over
plus of food which was distressing him.
hisstomach was permitted to pay exclusive
attention to getting rid of its present bur
! den.
And fancied that the young thing was
no longer tossed about until his every bone
threatened to break, when he was tired
and wished only to be allowed to rest and
sleep, nor rocked into dizziness when the
tosser had grown weary of the tossing.
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 whipp
ed because their msnimas 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.
thought that grown persons had ceased
to ask child his age, if his hat, or his
shoes were new, or where he got them, or
any of the questions which arr 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 gentleman
who was not tired at all, and that when
| child had secured window seat in steam
car, it was not taken from him simply be-
cause he was child
thought it had become the fashion to
say thank you" to boy gentleman or
miss-lady, and that Eyes, sir" and mo,
ma'am," were no longer 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 particular.
ly interested and were answered with the
same consideration that would have been
accorded them had they been the most in
sufferable adult bores you ever heard of.
thought thai parents never attempted
to deceive their children, but always told
them the truth without prevarication or
| evasion.
l thoughtthatthe adage children should
be seer but not heard, had become obsolete.
and that when a child spoke he we listened
to with the same attention that would have
been bestowed upon him were he twenty
years older,
dream7d that because parents had for
gotten how to whine amp scold, children
had failed to learn the arts of whining and
angry articulation.
thought little girls were taught to run
end fdlhb ifstesd Of being allowed to sit
all day, snd that keeping their clothing
unsoied and their muscles tlaccid was not
the whole Of their education. ....
l thotght that mother cared more to see
their boys with ruddy cheeks than with
clean hands, and that lungs and limbs
were considered as worthy IT development
as brains. ......
l Thought shat parents were as polite and
kind in taking and dedling with their own
children as with the children of others.
thought that children were more like
pleasant adults because of the freshness
and ingenGousness of childhood; ,
Now, children, wasn't this a most ridi-
culous dream ?-Boston Transcript.