The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-01-16
ABOUT BABIES.

st is seriously proposed ln Texas pa- per Go hold a baby sAow as Waco. l asked my friend, Hossaater McGinnis, what he thought about It.
 ~Why should noe Waco have baby sAowe The city of Austia has baby sAOw every year. Way should not Waco have one. toor
 ~I aiass ksS= .A.. Austin had baby show every year"
 "Well, it has. What else is the session of lAe legislature that is held every year at Austin bot c big baby sAo~l Most oi thOss legislative babies arc raised witA bottle"
 may men,ioa incidentally that Mo Gtnnis once tried to get position as clerk ot legislative committee and failed Ever since then he has bsea severe on the legislature.
 "WAAs do you tAipk of baby shows on general principles, Mc(sinnis ?" asked
 "rhis Is a trse couauy. Everybody should have a show. TAa baby has 6 right te have some show, although some infants don't deserve It, for they don, give ,Aeir parents any sAow to get slerp at nights. That's the ktnd ei a baby the colieky infant is--a regular MssSsiA ot a cub far muFderiAg Aleep"
 Some people say that babies all look alike and act alike, AAd have 10 more ex pscssiou in tAetr taees sAan 60 nAay trisA potatoes What do you think of ,hAtf
 ~ThM's all Bonsense," replied Mt Gin uis i" I've had fouT or 6se babes h Eny tamily, at oss time or AHosher, And know all about them. There are mARy different kinds of babies as there are oi men"
 Describe lev of thsm."
 "Well 6tst Ot all comes the REasplHg, hungry infant He grabs a, everything and never voluntarily lets go ei anytAiag on which he has lad his kaads. He al. says wants to succeed himsslf la off . He never rssigas. his cJy is, Oas AoEs term He cries ior svery,Aing he cas- see, and no matter how big it ts, oT far oe Il may be. he tries to shove it iato hts mouth. He seems to think hts mouth Is as b,g as that ot river He will reach for the moon or a railroad depot. asd 1t he could get bold ot them he would make an hoGeN ttioIt to get them into his mouth, just at lf they did not belong 10 somebody else. That style of cherub Ts minds me ot . street car Nobody eau say positively when t Is tali. rhA, 5 where the hungry infant differs from a member of the Texas legislature. Every body knows when a member oi the rsxAs legislature Is fulI His yslls are heard out into the suburbs When the grasp. tng infant grows ap, if hc has brains and no conscience he becomes a railroad magna,e if he tuTns hts at,en,ion to pol,tics, he develops into Ross r~eed ?
 Bat there ara other kinds of infanis P "Yes, there Is the fighting infant, that has Jumps over its ears where combative. ness IS located. He is born with both fists doubled up, As soon as he Is able to take notice he wTeuo hos out ,he nurse 'A hAiT. hammers hts ii,tle brothers and s,. ,ers with his toys and pulls ou, the kt tens tall by the roots. When this kiad of whclp natures he Is sure to become . dcspe,a ,ado or to bo appointed on the po- lice force. itis a wieTd and startling idea that a policeman was little baby, but he was all the same. Thia style oi lnfant ls dangerous to handle as soon As hIs teeth have sprouted, aud should never be taken out without . musIe on. Polni clans who have to kiss babies la public ln order to popuiaTise ihemselves with the maSses keep a sharp lookout foS the vicious isfAnt. Asdy Johnson once car red baby oi this kind around for lit,e while just to accommodate his mother who held n up for him to kiss while he
 AAdy) was swinging around the circle 1e carried h around s~inging 10 hiS nose, sh,ch the little angel had inserted between his teeth for that purpose"
 Perhaps that ts the reason Piesideni Clevslsnd refused to kiss baby not long ago. he merely ohucked It under the chm and ssld, nice httlc fellow, pass on"
 "Of course that's the Teason. He saw by the vicious glance of the little devli . eye that he was laying for a chance io b,,e. The biupg baby Is as unreliable as a mugwamp, and Cleveland has fousd it out"
 But, Mr McCinnis, there ass some good b.b es, are there not P
 "Of course, there arc. The good-na- tured infant laughs and cr0ws when he ls awake. and a. sIgh, he sleeps like . mas ~ho kas paid a year . sabsetlption ia ad- vance for his ne~spaper. The good -ns- tured baby smiles h his sleep. The reason the little angel smiles l. because brother angels ase wh,speting to him. it ls net colhc, as some dociof's suppose. No doubt Peter Cooper, Moote6ose, Pea body and other philasthIopists were good natused babies. They were isll of the condensed milk Of humAn kisdnsss.S
 " Have you any ideas in regard of the management of baby showT
 "Yes. and my ideas are different from those of most pcrsons. 1 would not be- ao~ tAe highest prize on the handsomes, baby. lt is baby .has nsvsT AissuIbs his pssea,s st Dighis; that never ins,as On bsisg ? Lked up sad down regardless Of the discomfort t may occasion his pa tesnal an cssioT owing to his scantiness of T4iment aad the lowness of the temnsss- fnra ii ia inc aAdafa z caild that alae na