The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1892-01-29
BABY SUGGESTIONS,
SOME QUAINT BELIEFS HELD
IN GERMANY.
A Chnd Christened on Friday Is Round
TO Grow Up a Rogue-Wrap Baby
in Fur and It l. Sure to Have
Curly Hair.

Some of the German superstitions
respecting children are so quaint as TO
be well worth a passing glance says
the Saturday Evening Post Every
portion Of Germany has lis own par
tieulG, folk lore. but most Of the Gu
rious iancies we are about 10 notice
are prevalent in more provinces than
one.
With regard to baptism: II the pa
rents wish their child 10 live Il hun
bred years. the god parents must be
fetched from three di erent parishes;
10 name it Adam or Eve is supposed
TO produce a similar result but in
both cases. the charm is broken If the
infant should cry during the cere-
mony.
The sponsors must not forget TO
wear some borrowed garment in or
der that their godchild may alway-
have credit; they must not look about
them, or he Will see ghosts; or talk
or he viii do the same in his sleep.
Neither must they eat any meat i'm
mediately before tho ceremony. be
cause the hapless infant would as
suredly get the toOthachc: while. il
the case OF a bachelor and u spin,tei
officiating. the priest must place him
self between them. or Otherwise tn
two would quarrel every time they
met
a child christened on u Friday is
bound to grow up a rogue: and if i
sleeps through the christening i;
is sign shat it is not long for thi.
world
Sometimes the father runs round III
church during the service in orde
that his son may become fleet Of foot
and the relations, if they car beg.
borrow or steal the water in the font
dash it as h Oh as possible agansl
the wall that the new.y bapti ed may
distinguish himself later on in the
world and bring the family 10 honor
When girls only are brought - the
font it IS considered rather disaster
as they run the risk of remaining I'M
appropriated blessings all their lives
The duties Of sponsors seem TO be
many and various.
4 sick child is supposed to got bet
ter if its godfather carries it three
times up ard down the room; anu
three days after lis birth it Is his dlt
10 soothe it when crying in order thar
it may hnve peace
This curious transaction Is accom-
plished by dropping a con among it.
clothes; and supposing the baby con
Linues to cry, three keys. placed in it.
cradle viii certainly bring about the
desired hush.
Another quaint fancy is that q child /
eft unchristened Tor some time viii
have beautiful large eyes. If a sword /
or knife be hidden in its cot the /
witches viii have no power over it |
out il. when lying IN its cradle it viii !
not look al you, then most likely ii l. |
I vi ch-child itself
Wrap baby in fur audit will have /
curly hair put three penn es in it
irst bath. and it Will never lack mon-
y; pen it will learn quickly: q ro-
3ary, it will grow up pious, an egg ii /
will have q clear voice
\ child born during sermon time en-
Christmas morning has the gift 0
eeing spirits SO does the first chic
applied al 4 newly eonsecrated fout
-nless the sponsors 4lke the prec@ u
ion o. dropping straw pin or piec.
u paper into the basin.
The first meat it eats should b
cast lark; and if it is slow in learnin.
o walk its mother ought 10 make
reep silently three Friday morning
0 a raspberry bush grown into tn
round at both ends.