Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-04-01
MIR. Bowser Takes Care Of the Baby.

Mr.. BoWser axes care OF lne bdOI.
Mr.. Bowser has gotten into more
trouble and lays it all on to his wife
as usual, although in this case it was
the heir OF the house that made the
disturbance. Mr. Bowser came home
to dinner one cold day recently and
as he had a cold and was afraid OF
getting the grip again, he decided to
stay at home that evening and doctor
himself up. So after his wife had
made him some hot punch and gotten
him into his slippers and gown, and
comfortably seated by the fire, she
said, Now, dear, | want to run over
to Mrs. Smiths a few minutes and try
on a new dress she is making for me,
if you think you can watch baby till
get back"
The baby vas sleeping calmly in his
cradle and this did not seem like n
very formidable task.
Watch him Mrs. Bowser. Why,
know more about babies in minute
than you do in thousand years.
Just YOU 20 on and leave him to me
and when he awakes I'll manage him
so well that he probably won't recog-
nize you any more"
But she had her misgivings and
said:
Now, I'll wait till the cook comes
home from marketing, il you think
there is any doubt about keeping him
quiet
by the Great Horn Spoon, Mrs.
Bowser. Do you think the father Of
that child can't take care OF him =?
| All YOU want is box Of safety-pins
and bottle Of pareg goric to be
whole founding asylum. You clear
out and peddle street yarn all the at-
ternoon and I'll show you how to
manage a baby
So after tucking the covers careful
ly around the sleeping infant and
cautioning him not to waken it, she
started for the dressmaker's
Mr. BowSer sat and read the paper
for about ten minutes and then got up
| to look at his charge. There the ba-
| by Law with one thumb in its mouth,
the perfect picture OF innocent child
hood. After contemplating it for Il
moment with fatherly pride, he cond
not resist chucking it under the chin
and saying:
The very image of his father
Looks more like ne every day"
| This caused the baby to open his
eyes very wide and stare at the in
truder. But he was in good hnmor
and so only smiled and cooed and
kicked up his heels and stuck his
chubby fist in his mouth, all Of which
| delighted Mr.. Bowsrr immensely, and
| he thought he was getting along
| swimmingly and so rashly undertook
to take him up. After carrying him
around the room awhile he sat down
and tried talking to him, but the baby
didn't understand him aCd began TO
/ yearn for the maternal side OF the
| house. He Strengthened himself out
| and stiffened bis back and began max
| ing face that would be- awful lift froze
up that way. Mr.. Bowser had to
trot aga in, and round and round the
room he went with the baby clinch-
| ing both bands in his whiskers and
/ digging him in the stomach with
! both feet. Becoming tired Of this, he
tried TO lay him down again in his
cradle and got his feet where his head
ought to be and piled the covers on
/ him and undertook to rock him 70
sleep. But this was what the young
| calliope had no notion Of doing just
| then and he raised his voice in a loud
protest in spite OF the rocking, SO he
| had TO resort 70 some other form Of
amusement. and got a tin pan and
water bucket aud beat them, but the
/ baby yelled louder and drowned out
| the other racket.
Mr.. Bowser shook his fist at him and
stamped around the room and swore
/ softly to himself and wondered why
! in thunder he was ever fool enough
TO let his wifego of to monkey around
with the fit of u new dress and basque
and polonaise patterns and put up
such job as this on him
He happened to think OF plan for
keeping the baby quiet, that he had
read in some household magazine, and
so proceeded to put it in execution.
He got the molasses can from the
dining-roo table and some feathers
from the baby's pillow. He smeared
some Of the sticky sweetness on its
/ hands and then stuck feathers on one
/ hand. This attracted the young hope
/ furs attention for a short time and
he lay there picking the feathers from
one hand to the other, where they
would stick in the molasses, and Mr.
Bowser thought be had won the day.
Thinking it about time for his wife
to return, he took the youngster on
his lap and sat down by the fire.
Here he got into trouble again and
had to change his pants and hang the
Others out 10 dry. He also concluded
that the baby should change his too
aud looked around for some drS un-
| a.r,lo,b;np He afound an aasortlueQt