Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-01-20
BABY's RIGHTS.
Privileges Accorded to small Children by
Considerable Parents and Relatives.

Privileges Accorded to small children by
Considerable Parents and Relatives.
Children have the right OF way. and
when from three to five years of age
rule the household. How they rule de-
pends upon the temper and disposition
OF their subjects. Nothing lovelier,
more interesting or momentous, ever
happens in the home tnan the birth OF
a CHILD. For the first time the parents
OF this delicate human flower compre-
bend what their parents went through
to bring them into life and safely on up
to this hour Of browning happiness OF
welded lite.
OF course the new papas and mammas
do not go through the streets shouting
out their Joy in the new dignity OF par
enthood, but some men do carry their
heads little higher for 1t, and the
alteration of a loving woman In her trst
born is the very essence OF the poetry
OF married life. Even the unwelcome
child has a way of soon making its pres
ence acceptable and calling forth the
best in human nature when 1t does ap-
near, and makes its touching appeal
to womanhood for protection and
love. 1t is always a mis-
fortune when happy marriage
is not the growing centre OF married
life. All properly constituted men and
women so regard II. The child brings
sunshine and experience, and for
months, and it may be years, Is an un-
alleged JOY in the home-but it all de-
ponds.
As soon as there is baby in the
house, however good" parents begin
to 90 to pew school and learn new
lessons. Baby needs constant at
tention. Its wants and needs
must be anticipated. II made
perfectly comfortable, and not tossed
about too much, it spends most OF the
first six weeks asleep-unless 1t is born
with tendency TO collie.
Then goodby sleep and reposs while
that lasts. Many new papa takes his
first lessons In floor walking when the
baby happens (?) to be colicky child. l
write happens" with question mark,
because great many things that
trouble baby's early life might be avoid
ed, of mothers studied to learn what 10
avoid, for ,baby's sake. The response
bilities of motherhood begin very early
in its stage of development, and so do
those OF fatherhOod.
The baby is at first as plastic as the
sculptor's clay 10 your hands. IL
catches the expression in mothers race,
and laughs or cries at your sweet VIII.
Why not have this will always sweet,
and thus cultivate a sunshlny, smlllng
disposition from the first? 1t can De
done. All baby's first lessons In life are
learned directly from the parents. Ills
a KIDD OF normal school In which papa
aad mamma have to learn the lesson OF
obedience, and self-restraint, and good
temper and sweet expression before
sbey can even teach it 10 baby. Little
tempers, tantrums, and family traits Of
a disagreeable character or otherwise
are quite as often copies OF home man
ners as Inherited traits. Where in
heritance ana queer traits go together
1t ouly takes generation or TWO 10
land some OF the descendants IN the IN
sane hospitals.
BABY talk is one OF the commonest
ways of corrupting chlid's speech
"Ootsey tootsey, tosey wosey" Is no
easier for BABY 10 understand than
Your dear little feet and cunning lit
tie toes" which last has the merit OF
sounding well to all ears. Baby will
crow as loud il you pull one OF those
mink little toes gently and call il toe
as though you garbled the Kings Eng
lish until the King himself would not
recognize IT. II a child Is taught 10
s,aak so incorrect because IL Is so
cnnoipr. he has To go through a palm
fnl process OF discipline before be can
talk any other way, or half forget it,
tain my