The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-23
THE FIRST WORD.
tint of a very Young Gentle
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man.
r,btunotts. in Black and White.
51e" boror. some married people
pom NY "a 70 have a baby at all. Take
J -snts Here am 1, just about 10 Gel
.,s first anniversary of my blrthday'
''e -'1Iidlv. at times 1 feel disposed 10
D. seating even here, on the very
~ If a career which many experts
I'D 10 consider most promising.
We nat for my bottle holder l should
I" ".t.,yn ND the sponge long ago. My
we 1 mamma, to be frank, get on my
pa "', ar5 ace me; my nurse alone has
,slrn the storm. The truth Is,
lEeI ~ frst child the average mex
idt WIZ ,'o,Ing father and mother expect
.h5 5ilO 3sSl loo much. The parents OF
l1A{ take new babies as they
~ and don't worry aDout THEM, gu
pnie' oIiou+ them, and look for signs ana
pasl d. before a chap is weaned; but
PP yI ~ nv people expected, don't know.
Wn VIC o6lige. but there is always some
~ Tr7ng. If they would only leave me
' nv nurse-who is a particularly pleds-
L ny ronnetent person, ana knows her
~ 60. a. il might be better for everybody
pl'ill,a5 And that is true, because L
Foulei ,r5 her say so a dozen times in
tl5rate Moreover they-l mean fatner
~ Imother-night give nature a chance.
Il, near them you would thlnk tnaI i ma
IA overlooked me altogether. For
lli,,1 ns II cannot be denied that she was
ss..5ae 6ehind-hand with my first teeth
I'm Iiftle front ones. Well. what then?
,1erely amounted to question OF lew
rs i didn't want the teeth. My whole
stretched out before me, anu TORT
4 h. more or less without them made no
ntieai difference. l knew-nObody bet
4 ttbat they were on the way all right.
4 If nv parents had read somewhere at
VI time the teeth We're due; or else my
4 dor like a fool had been worried into
~ a definite date, and when the day
sped and the teeth didn't, my mother
cr and my father pOked about in my
ma with his foretinger, until l felt |
4 WI have given something for tooth or
tWiust TO demonstrate with. L couldn't
aihat | thought about it, but my nurse
n col thank heaven, and did And then
N nNother said she had produced hor-
n rdoothless freak of nature, and my
fgtr went away to town with a face
toMhich all joy in life had departed.
Itas the same look which he wore for
4 Nk during my Vaccinating troubles.
4 mot too much to say that he added
pg to the horrors of that circum-
4 san. / took badly, and came out
Il Eeced one morning in consequence. My
a MEDAL man was sent for, and said it
4 was mobile arm, and seemed pleased
Ct vat he had arranged. Wen, that was
gOOienough for me. The man had
n trlunt me into the world, and l trusted
4 bin. But my father declared that he had
neye' seen vaccination Speckle a child
on he stomach in his life (Which was
doubtless trle), and he murmured some
I ihn' about a second opinion. The doctor
4 vas gOod-nltured about it, fortunately;
4 man practitioners would have thrown
n " he case but when the speckles went
"A of ny father wrote and apOlogiZed
II Babies hate business. But who real
zes that? Every morning it is 'How has
b he sept nurse How is his little in
Fl ade, nurse2' How is his previous out
q sle, nulSeF Has that mark where the
lal scratched him gone, nurse?" Did l
Il Pear him crying at 1870, nurse?" Isn't
ne strangely silent this morning and
llly under the eyes, nurSeY and so forth
lM so forth. often wonder why my
llTSe hangs on at all. My nursemaid ask
n her tae same question once, when she
sq my mother had differed about some
l'le matter involving magnesia; and the
s nurse explained that she stopped for two
reasons, because she got $50 a year for
lohs So and because she felt it would be
le next thing to murder to leave me un-
u my mother knew her business.
buy mind you. l want to be just to both
~! parents. NV mamma can sing me TO
Xtyp with considerable Judgment and
A1i' my papa can pick me up and fling
Ie IoWdfa me ceiling with a nerve and
ItASlu when cause me infinite gratifi-
luon "hen l am in the vein. But even
ooul simple. thing like that he exer-
seS no discretion. There are occasional
lles Wnen a chap doesn't care to be
lHs up 10 the ceiling. How would he
'Ag ~ lor instance, the moment after he
w equivalent with him?
men men my mother will interfere with the
AZURE oil my bath. She has a con
I'm, amounting to mania, that some
sAaH De boiled alive or scaldsd TO
s@r3 Ter idea appears to be that |
eDu slt quietly and patiently while
we oleration was being performed and
II Aouody TO hear anything of it un-
on was cooked to a turn. The result
Az slaIm S that l rarely get nv ain
II ill., guy temperature though everybody
Il THINK bea l. nol hath now and again.
"a tbsa 1n Raven they will grow older.
sul5iyp S otels Of mine. With years must
bqHeyg eoint experience and wisdom and
nt tS1 Al present, and I saw ii with
lrCte,e leaSl anmus, | would not give a
he hair nf ~ 10, Ior the united knowledge of
II was Of my first evner,r,o,,+ :, -,
lreI.ar'tu'dt set out to speak. WHOM other
a A. NdlIle hetWeen me and nv sub
AL anu months, or a shade over 7
-aot thai tb, d vocabulary of three words
N use h J,TG WORDS were of the slight
samma. bt' St'iIig with woman like my
lt second ~, ~, dld my best with them.
svia Ii00onl and third We're more N, 1ass
pdi1o. fSlreSslons Of good-feeling d.
voice. III VI 'aelr result on my infection
sulcnisrii,ue Arst Of which l want more
Dn In ite' W speak, created some sensa-
M NJ ~ way and. indeed. Droduced a
yer - r. result so startling thar b,,,a
sig1isaalss moment entirely fathomed
ID thns.' lt0SaAce Of it. The matter feli
and nothi my ninth month had pass-
lighter an II-ts Dut my own Language of
father bs lars mad broken the silence.
must bo Hau a gloomy inspirat;On that
marT,la dumb idiot, and thar he AMI
Eng uniiiita were Jointly responsible for n
Re of eitba4S TO add to the fame or re-
possible u,d poor, foolish fears as soon
pc cifcnmst1 OBVIOUSLY my duty under
ef ioctn59 taHces, and / set about IL
L 10 me- +ii, ~ monosyllable Commended A.
father ~ tHls connection / had hea ri
clrcunsf1T IL under somewhat humOr-
Bin on a. -' riilgeets, after falling over a
m to See '' r5a When he crept into my
We bofb iie SIeep. | was not asIeen
donb,i,.u laughed hcartllv az tbe ~ 49,
tdent went away and forgot tbe
Mactia,5o I Inc contrary, thourRt over
pie eyplap,'Il.gt word, ana tried IT, as a
nothing tb.it. ION on my mother. doubt
maps, reT,r1 rue would glory in ii, and.
AMI when She rcgarded M, ,nSmjj OF my
cradle o, almost dropped me back into
Oh, babve "9 Durst into a flood of tears,
ween hex low could your" She asked
to talk SS o I've been praying for
M be tr1eI-yt. months, and now-oh. Il
fault ~ mat my pronunciatio ,ya,
greatestU I3gred the word again with
ANNA beNa,taiL7 llnctness, whereupon nv
{ Nursery a'a s hysterical ana fled from
ben he cS can S ne brought my father up
sun waS IN nome ONE, and 1 observed that
e spoken 4 dreadful thing" she said;
Good b1s'n.Jsd James
he llttle 'b5l'iess.'' exclaimed NV father
bowers t,s-ar isn't dumb, then. thank