St. Landry democrat., 1890-09-27
Putting Baby To Sleep.

roilicKing rascal of baby who doesn't IL
tend snoozing any more of his valuab
time than he has to.
There have been evenings, dare So
when the pleasure of putting baby
sleep has been yours. Your wife has hs
sick headache or she wanted to "ru
over to mothers" or into one of the neigl
~ bors houses for something, and you hav
said 'Oh, no, of course not" when sh
had asked if you would mind getting ba
by to sleep after she has undressed him.
Perhaps, If it is a first experience, 70
are rather glad of the chance to convinc
your wife that she has fallen into tn
habit of wasting deal of time gettin
ts That youngster to sleep evenings. Yo
have always felt and said that you coul
get him to sleep in fourth of the Tim
your wife spends. ALI that is required
little frmness. The baby wants to sim
ply be made to understand that it i
bedtime and that he must 20 to sleep
That Is your theory, and now you'll put i
into practice, particularly as there is
long editorial In the evening psper and a,
article in the magazine you brought hom.
with you that you want to read this
evening.
Well. mamma departs, and you take
baby, robed in his little white 'nighty"-
the nearest thing to an angel there is on
earth, NO matter Low he may cut up and
tear around in the hour to come.
Iou pick him up and say fondly. but
firmly:
"Now papa's little baby boy must go
right to sleep"
5000, goo." he says, which is his way
of saying 'good night" and also his way
saying forty other things.
Now. baby, shut his little eyes," you
as you cuddle him up in your arms.
1900, goo,' he says, with his eyes wide
open and sort of intimation in them that
he will shut them when he gets ready to
do so, and not before
Baby" you say little more severely,
papa wants to read his paper and baby
must go to sleep"
If ever baby said 81 won't do Ii" with
its heels yours says it about this time,
for the way he Il is his little pink heels fly
into the air means nothing less than dis
tinct and positive 81 won't"
You then hold him firmly in your arms,
and he begins to squirm. He writhes and
wriggles with unexpected strength and
pluckily contends for freedom, until you
let him 60 through sheer admiration of
his grit.
Goo, goo," he says. which this time
means, "Ah. hal IN show you a thing
or two"
"Baby, DEAR" you say plaintively,
won't paps's baby go to sleep nowf-
Then the good baby manifests his inten
tion OF getting down and crawling all over
the floor. Foiled in this. he concludes to
crawl all over you. His little fingers
clutch your beard and you haven't the
heart to shake him of, not even when he |
pulls so hard that your eyes are full ef
tears. Then he pokes his fingers into |
your nose, eyes and ears, giving the result |
of his investigations in q series of gurg-
ling "goo-gooe, !" indicating that he is as
wide awake as he ever was In his life, and |
he thinks he can hold out three or four
hours yet. You haul him down into your
arms and say:
"Now if baby don't go right to sleeY
papa will have to whip. Shall papa whip
baby I"
The "goo, goo" he now screeches out
means, do so ut your own risk" Whip
him There is more or less of the brute
In every man, but you inwardly thank
God that your brutal tendencies don't run
n the direction of pounding babies. II
hey did your wife Is deserving of di-
Eorce free of charge and everything you
have ON earth ss alimony.
You simply cuddle him up In your arms
md begin rocking him to and fro In such
! manner that he couldn't 60 to sleep If he
wanted to, no more than you could If
ashed to q trip-hammer. Then you sing
you know, from "Rock of
lges" down to ssAnnie Rooney" all in one
ley, for, ten to one, you can't sing q note
correctly to save your life.
This concert lasts an hour and half
nd baby lives through it all and has vi
ality enough to pop up at the close of it
vitb q CHEEKY:
IA. yal Goo, goop
Then you shake him little and say:
"Now, young man, I've had just about
nongh of this. You've simply got to 20
0 sleepi Go to sleep"
Now you've made him cry. He slips
IMPLY down in your arms and opens his
aouth In one prolonged yell, followed by !
mother and another until he has emit :
ID about thousand Of them. You walk
he floor with him; you jounce him up I
nd down; you COAX and wheedle and
cold and fume and, dare say, swear a !
title.
Bye.and-bye his cries grow weaker and d
,wer; you feel his little form relaxing In q
our arms. his little limbs hang Imply, '
Is curly head lies heavily on your shoui- h
sr, his eyelids droop slowly, and, with t
lat most pitiful of sounds, the sobbing
child in its sleep, the little fellow q
anders into dreamland. You are free to n
y him down now and take up your book t
your paper, but you don't always do 1t. i
ometimes you simply sit down gently
ith the baby still in your arms and your 9
,es fixed on his flushed little face. You r
o sorry you made him cry. Every one 4
those sleeping sobs go right to your
sart.
There you sit for an hour, may be, Look =
q into his face with sort Of divine ten :,
srness In your heart that makes the
oublesome little bit OF humanity in your II
ans treasure for which you would lay d
,wn your life.
p. S..-I forgot to say that after you have
,ry carefully laid him down and crawled Il
ray from his cradle on your hands and %
lees so as not to awaken him, you are
.ralyxed by loud and distinct "Yai ya
i" and you have to do 1t all over again.
Detroit Fres Press. =
'sAnd do you love me SO devotedly, is
mr., he said, that you will give up dl
me and friends and all that makes your ta
nng life bright and happy to become "
wife, and 60 with me 70 the uttermost ii
lis of the world If necessary. sYes, pl
prge." shs whispered softly when /
your wife your thoughts shall be my to
lights, your hopes my hopes, your
gion my religion. and If you should
40 me to 60 to the uttermost ends of vo
world with you will go--oh, so glad