The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-13
THE CRADLE MUST GO.
What . Furniture Man Says Of Babe
That Ar RorH>1

What Furniture Man Says Of Babies
That Are Rocked.
A young father entered furniture store
recently in Macon, and asked to see a era
die. While one member of the firm went
off to wait on the customer, the other
member said to reporter: do you know
that it will not be long before cradles will
not be kept in stock at all2"
The reporter had not kept up with the
times In this particular, and asked the res-
son.
The cradle is fast getting to be a thing
as it were. Physicians have discov-
cred that the constant rocking of a baby In
cradle adde's the brain, and to this is at
tributed the weak minded of this and pre-
ceding generations. Minds of the child
rem are affected because of the rocking
motion, and they grow up either idiots or
cranks. You now see why there are more
cranks than ever before in the worlds his
tory. Then there is another reason why
the cradle should go. Look around over
the households of the country and see the
weak, sickly mothers. This comes of
rocking the cradle. l. has been clearly
demonstrated that running a sewing ma
chine is not near so labOrious or injurious
to the women of this country as rocking q
cradle"
How are the born journalists and prob
able presidents to be coaxed to cease
squalling and put to sleepf"
THE straight bed takes the place of a
cradle. Rocking doesn't stop child from
squalling, neither does it put it TO sleep.
That's a delusion that mothers have been
hugging to their bosoms for years, even
centuries. Babies sleep more than grown
people, and if they don't sleep they are
sick. A well and hearty babe can be laid
down upon couch as hard as a boarding
house bed and, if sleepy, will drop right
off to sleep without any rocking whatever.
How MANY times have you seen a mother
rock baby for an hour or longer, and vet
hear the child squall nearly all the time.
1t would not have squalled near so long if
laid comfortably on a rockerless bed, and
the poor mother would not have been tired
out pushing cradle to and fro"
Then the cradle must go, you thinkP'
Yes, and with it all those baby soaring
songs; no more will be heard, Baby Mine,
'Baby's Got Tooth, and all those songs
which accompany the rocking of the
cradle. You will never hear again:
Yocker bye baby, inner tee top,
Whenner win bows c'adle ill yock,
Whenner bough b'akes c'adle i'll fall,
Down1l tum baby, c'adle an all
because all such things keep baby awake
instead of putting it to sleep"
Then you would blot out the sweet
picture of the fond mother bending over
the cradle containing her st-born, softly
grooming or singing her tender lullaby as
the watches the little smiles and uncon-
scious laughs chase the ripples over the
beautiful dimples; you would tear away
the drapery that hangs over the little
cradle, and the silk quilts upon which the
mothers fingers have worked for so long.
and you would do all this for doctors
opiniOn!"
No, no, my boy, not for a doctors
opinion, but you see there is no money in
cradles See that elegant antique oak
crib there? We make more money on
that one crib than on a dozen cradles. ;"