Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
How He Dresses The Baby.

All family men fancy that they can
dress the baby much more deftly ant
expeditiously than the mother Can per
form the same operation. That is, il
they only set themselves about it.
OF course there is no doubt OF that"
says the man to himself, "a man can DO
anything better than a woman, aud NOT
make half the fuss and talk about 1t.
Women wear themselves all out talking
things over. Why, q woman will talk
more about making a Aat-iren-holAer
than a man would about building 81
Westinghouse. When o man is going
to Ito anything, he goes to work and
does it. He doesn't have to run all
Dyer the neighborhood to ask ave- one
he knows about it, and then do rs he
has a mind to, as a woman will do.
And 80, having heard him boast Of his
capabilities for years, some fine MORN
ing, when his wife's head aches, and the
feminine deity of the kitchen has given
notice, the mother of the family invites
him to dress the baby.
The baby is big enough to Walk
around and have n finger in every pie,
but it will be "the baby" till q later
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The man who knows it ali smiles
triumphantly to himself. He is lie
lighted with the opportunity of show
ing his wife how much quicker he can
do it than she can. And he'll see if
that baby is going to run all over crea-
ton after cats and things, and cry half
the time while he is doing it. Disci-
pine is what is needed with children.
He calls the baby to him.
"Stand there, Freddy, while papa
finds your clothes, like q good boy"
Freddy places himself in position,
while his papa goes in quest Of the raj
ment belonging to the juvenile. Freddy
spies o bird on the top Of q tree in the
yard, and he climbs on the piano to get
high up at the window, and he knocks
down a couple of bundles of sheet
music, his sister Fanny's new hat that
she left there last night when she came
home from the party, so tired that she
could hardly get up stairs to bed; and
then poor Freddy slips, and grabs the
fixtures and all, and draws q double
tracked railroad on the polished rose
wood OF the piano with his wildly
clutching finger-nails, and lands safely
on the floor. bowling with rage at not
having been able to get the bird.
By that time his pa has found most
; OF his clothes, and is ready to begin.
, But Freddy isn't ready. He wants to
: see the pictures in the album. Then
he insists on hearing the watch tick.
Then he wants to catch .the dog by
the tail and give it q good pull, to see
J, if it is on fast. Then he wants to kiss
" mamma
= STAND stillY says his pa, putting OF
u the severe look that lie uses on his in
u subordinate clerks in the dingy down
3 town office, land see if you can kee.
o your tongue still while ] dress you
- Don't wiggle so, Freddy! Stand still
!, Put down your foot! Let that ca
q alone! Here, you little mischief, sto1
70 chewing. that l%ed-pencil! Hold up you
head, can't you? Put this hand threug
=. no, that one! Good gracious, it
81 strange that women will make pants fc
es babies wrong end to! And more hu
r! tons on EN- than would be needed
button up a regiment Of men! No
then, for the waist! Humph, that
%. made the same way, all the buttons
We the wrong place. No arm-holes, 4
On nothing! Freddy, hold still! ! tie
! you it doesn't hurt! Yes, It's on righ
1t can't be on any other way. By Jov
III I've forgot the drawers, and the stoc|
ings! Here, put up that foot. Goo
o' gracious, Freddy. can't yon stop wi,
'e Cling your toes? Hold your leg still
g There, now. Now, we'll put on the III
d tie mans collar. What m outlandis
u Is, 49,, ~ ., N %c Fo.tnr, n ,,n11ar r. loon,
., stay put anywhere. Let's see, the bo'
goes under it? No, it must go over il
u Keep your head still. What are ,yo
Is bobbing so for? Lift mp your arm!
"a Freddy! Why, what the duse is til
'e matter with his child's arms? He can
'e move 'em. Don't cry, Freddy. LIE
"a me look. Do stop that bawling. Thi
"a all comes of your mothers hnmorin,
q you 80. 1 say, Fred, stop this noise
le Stop it, ] say! l shall be crazy
* And about at this juncture his vii
80 appeared OF the scene. aud she find
10 that Freddy's pants are hind part b.
t. fore, and one OF his arms has been pu
through the neck space, and the othe
one through II arm-hole Of his waist
and his collar. which was made to tar
g down, stands up, and his stockings Al
le on wrong side out; and his pa will neye
[e own that there is anything out OF orde
4 about the proceeding, butthe next, tim
10 he dresses the baby, he doen't dress
10 he always has something to see t
J. that prevents him.-Knte Thorn, .
ID Neac York Weekly.
). The Living Microscope.
John Thomas Heslop, of Birmingham
England, is a lad whose powers Of visio
are marvellous. He is known as the iii,
@ ing microscope on account of bein,
able to see the most minute object
l. clearly defined. In 1878 or 1879 h
was attacked with some battling ey