Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-09-10
BABY,S GRIEVANCES.
Some of the just Reasons 1t Has for
strike

Some of the just Reasons 1t Has for a
estrike."
Tommy Cute, aged1, having suffered as
long as he can stand it, writes to us in
order that his grievances, being known to
the public, may Immediately be cured.
| object, he says, in the first place, 10
being forced to adopt Father Jones brindle
COW for Il foster mother.
I object, also, to the existence of a like
relationship between myself and the con-
densed milk factory or the corn-starch
mill.
object TO having my stomach stuffed as
a remedy for a mosquito bite on my little
toe or a nasty pin in my back.
| object to p%ersonating a churn. | pre-
Ter to take my butter after the churning
process is completed.
I object to being kisssd by all the women,
old and young, who come near me. | pre-
fer to wait a few years, or at least until l
am old enough to make my own selections.
1 object to having people ask about my
age. 1t is an i~mpertinence. Besides,
grown people sometimes remember, and of
ages they are especially apt in keeping a
record.
| object to having to go hungry until
company is served. For my part I don't
see what people want company for. Com
pany is a nuisance. Mamma and papa
have said so hundreds of times in nv
hearing.
l object to being obliged to go about
with my neck and arms bare. When it is
hot, the flies and mosquitoes bother me
awfully, and when the air Is chilly l feel
as though | were freezing to death.
1 object, when l go out to ride in my
p~erambulator, to having myself left alone
in the sun while my maid sports with hat
long-legged chap with the yellow mustache
and r~eady-made clothing.
L object to being sent to bed when l am
not sleepy, and to having a nasty rubber
tube stuck in my mouth every time l turn
over in the night.
l object to having strangers make faces
at me. They give me an awful start some
times when they think they are amusing
me.
| object to being spoken TO by people
with whom | am not acquainted. Why
don't they wait for an introduction?
/ object to being the only child in the
family. It's awfully lonesome not to have
any plOlLSlS VI clotCts. L Wlou L Hdu uctu
born when it was fashionable to have large
families.
| object to being called Tom, Just be-
cause my papa was called Tom when he
was a boy. Because his papa gave him a
name ne didn't like was no reason for Civ
ing me a name | detest. | should think a
boy ought to be allowed to choose his own
name.
l object to wearing dresses and having
my hair curled. Half the folks think
I'm a girl.
/ object to being bossed by omen A
man ought to be his WI master, and Pm
just sick of petticoat government.
1 object to being taught baby talk.
What good does it do me. After l have
become proficient in it l have to go to
work and unlearn it, and learn grown
folks language. Why don't they teach
me that in the first place?
l object to having folks bore me with
their S lily stories, which | have heard SO
many times that they are veritable chest
nuts.
L object to having people humbug me
all the time. They tell me what | should
do and what | should not do. | notice
they arc not given to taking their Owl
medicine. What Ounces they are not t.
know that | learn more from what | see
than from what they tell me.
There's lots of things to which l object
but this will do for a starter.-Bosto'
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