The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-19

with an endless dow of senseless jaxgon, called baby talk. This insane desire of mothers to murder the pure English language is a characseristic of young mothers, who seem so think that the best way to teach their chiidfen to speak pure English Is ,o teach them impure Eng lish--so teach them jargon which has neither sense, correctness. ox beauty tor one of its attributes To hear the aver age mother talking to her child. almost causes me to think that she Is the greater as weil as the larger baby of the two.
 Notwithstanding all this l say baby Is word builder. Ages siuce he invented single word, which no philol0giss has ever been able 10 analyze, and vt is is . word which will be as lasting as time. The word refer to is mamma. . word never dreamed of by our pristine philolo- giss until he heard i, lisped from the un- trained lips of his baby as it ssrove to express. wi,hou, officious guidance. that unboanded love for its mother which overfiowed its dawning soul. While the Greek or Hebrew or Slavic roots of many beautiful words will perish in the dry earth of ages. and the words themselves be forgotten. baby has coined one word which will remain. always pleasing. al ways fresh. always beautiful. while there Is an ear 10 hear and hear, 10 conceive.
 Baby Is. also. in addition 10 his phiio. logical character. somewhat of literary parsonage His instructive love for let iers is illustrated by the avidi,y with which he devours books and newspapers whenever they chance 10 fall into his hands. h fact. considerable library would soon be gone through with did he have free access to i;. He has. however, his especial style of lite, atufe to which he IS particularly attached. The especial style of book Tn which he finds greates, delight. Is tha, class of works which he is enabled ,o read by the and of pictures. and which some en,erprising Yankee has produced, printed upon cloth to make them more lasting. as leas, in the hand. if no, in the minds ot the readers.
 We usually judge of the literary capae. ity of any class by;h editions oi books published exclusively for them. and by the extent Id which the authors memory Is kep, green. Your Dante IS only dragged from oblivion by tew who sill cherish his memory. Your Cervantes IS only remembered when you read Span. ish history. Your classic Rabelais has almost faded away and his memory. m. stead of being kep, green, Is allowed ,e become grey with the moss of forse,ful- ness. No, Sc. however. with babies au' thors Catullus Is forgotten. Lonsinus |, scarcely remembered. while he mernor, of Terance. and Piantus, and Seneca are covered with the ashes of oblivion. ye' there is one author whose memory cling. 10 us with evergreen freshness and whils flowers shall bloom to gree, the rising sun, while spring-time and harves, shall return to gladden. the earth. while the dews shall fall and the grass shall grow 90 long shall flourish. ever charming ever new. the memory of the baby. author, Mother Goose.
 There comes day, however. in the his tory of king baby. when his previously happy life seems to come to a sudden end. Clouds of distress crowd upon hi. joy, and obscure his visions of delight He awakens some morning to fini him self dethroned usurper has taken pos session of his throne, and he Is ejected from his royal couch. the cradle, ana made to sleep in a strange bed. The throne of power is occupied by stranger the place nearest his mothers heart IS nc longer his. and he suddenly becomes nothing bu, little boy. His grief i, bitter, bu, no; lasting. IL |, his first taste of the cup Of sorrow. which we. as largei babies are called upon so often to taste True he has been deposed from his of. hce. bu; being a, heart truly democratic he acknowledges the propriety of ro,a. ton in office. and even in time become, a faithful subjec, and worshiper of the new king.
 IL would possibly be profitable 10 fol- low baby after his deposition, through al the changes of life. but space only allow. me to say that baby never entirely ceases to be baby. remember now. man, men and women whose hair is beginning to turn grey. who often find. cropping out of their daily actisns. the instincts and habits of the original baby.
 Some may be disposed to regard In, ylew Of the baby question as rather whim- sical {: but whatever doubts or differ ences Of opinion may exist, none can dispute the babys paramoun, influence in social and domestic life. It Is the ques- ton which decides and swallows up that other foolish question which asks. wha, shall be the status of the coming wo- man.r
 The true answer IS That the c~ming woman shall nurture the coming baby. It will never be her duty 10 the nation to command the army or the navy bu; her position will be higher and. more holy than any of these. She shali be the mother of the grand army of the re- public.
 
 Williams A Shan,S