The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1889-01-03
A MESMERIZED BABY.
Tho Alarm Caused by a Fathers Expert
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From ne Ne,o FORK Necs.
They have had very dreadful time
over at Perkins with Mrs Perkins
baby. It seems that the child was very
restless and troublesome at night, and
they couldn't manage to make il sleep
even by dosing it with paregoric. Per
kins at last got perfectly desperate. He
remembered reading somewhere an ac-
count of the powers of mesmerizing per-
sons, and it occurred to him that maybe
| he might mesmerize the baby and keep
it quiet at night in that manner. He
| hadn't any great hopes of success, but
one night, while Mrs. Perkins had gone
down stairs to get some sugar to put in
the paregoric, Perkins rubbed the child's
eyebrows and made some passes with his
| hands, and to his qualification the baby
| suddenly went to sleep.
] When they awoke in the morning the
child was still slumbering, and Mrs. Per
kins said she guessed it must have gotten
a tooth through, which made 1t feel so
much easier. Perkins said he thought
maybe ii had,
After breakfast we went upstairs to see
If it was awake yet, but 1t wasn't; and
so, after giving it two or three rough
shakes without rousidg it, he went down
to get his hat to 60 to the office. Mrs
Perkins called after him:
Don't slam the front door and wake
the baby"
And then Perkins did slam it fearfully
and he went away with gloom in his
heart and horrible apprehension that
the baby would never wake up.
"What in the thunder'd we do II 1T
should stay asleep and live to be 90 or 6O
years old and not get awake onceT' said
Perkins to himself.
The thought was maddening 1t
haunted him for two or three hours, and
then he could stand 1t no longer. He
determined to go back to the house to
ascertain if the baby had come back to
consciousness. When he got there Mrs.
Perkins said:
isn't it queer how long the baby stays
asleep? He is not awake yet. Nervous
exhaustion, suppose, poor little thing"
Perkins felt awfully, and he went up
and jagged pin in the baby's leg
quietly, so that his wife couldn't see him.
Still it lay there fast asleep, and he went
back to his office uncertain whether to
fly or to 90 home and confess. In a
couple of hours Mrs. Perkins came down
to see him. She was scared and breath
less.
''Mr Perkins, the baby Is actually
asleep yet, and | can't rouse himl I've
shaken him, and called to him, and done
everything, and he doesn't stir. What
can be the matter with him? I'm afraid
! something awful has happened!'
Maybe he's sleeping up lot ahead.
, | NJ ts,1.t re nnn
said Perkins, with feeble smile at his
attempt at joking.
"Mr. Perkins, you ought to be ashamed
of yourself to trife with such matter.
, i believe the poor child's going to die,
and want you to 60 straight for the
{ doctor" ~
[ Perkins put on his hat and started. and
in half an hour he reached the house in
. company with DR.. ellis. The doctor eX
l amined the child carefully and said that
t it was queer case, but that, in his
: opinion, it must be under the influence
of opium.
; Ibid you give it any while was
S asleep last night, Mr.. Perkins," asked
Mrs. p, suspiciously and tearfully.
"No. III take my solemn oath
didn't replied Perkins.
Q at is extraordinary" replied DR.
r ellis. 81 think l will go in and call DIR
s Brown and consult with him about it,"
Then Mrs. Perkins began to sob anC
@ Perkins felt that he was almost muir
/ derer. He followed the doctor dow
G stairs, aud when they reached the hal
@ he said:
/. doctor, if tell you something, yol
o won't give me away on it"
d No"
e "Well, doctor, I mesmerized tina
;. baby"
e "You did ?" exclaimed the doctor II
y establishment. "Well, why don't yol
)t rouse 1t up again p
l 81 don't know how; that's the mischie
of it. Can't you find me professions
:. mesmerizer to come and do it?"
1 1.-THE only one KNOW" said DIR. Gill'
cant be got in less than four days"
v "By that time" shrieked Perkins
@ ''the baby'll be dead and Mrs. Perkins
o be insanel What under heaven are W
'e going to do?'
t. Lets hunt up Brown; maybe h
a knows"
1t So they started after Brown, and in
l, little while they revealed the secret an
le took him in to see the baby. DIR. Brow
l. slapped its hands together and rubbed it
20 forehead, and all OF a sudden the bah
t, sat up and began to cry.
l. "What do you think was the matte
ut with him, doctorY' asked Mrs. Perkins
joyfully.
1, "Why, your husband says he mesmel
II lied the child" said the doctor, thought
10 lessly letting the secret drop.
Then Mrs. Perkins looked at Perkin
e as if she wanted to assassinate him, bu
:; she merely calculated monster 70 an
= flew from the room. She refused Il
2 speak to Perkins for q week and he ha
< remarked to me-
% ''If the baby wants to holler now I'm
going to let him holler If he hollers tn
/ top of his head off,"
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