The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-03-17
TRATELLING WITH CHILDREN.

why do these babies all cry so ~
asked a wearied eXcursionist of his
neighbor. Every baby on this car is
crying"
The man questioned happened to be
a medical student and a close observer.
His quick eye glanced from child to
child.
Don't you see." he answered, ''it
is because every child here is miserably
uncomfortable. The parents are just
tired out, and the strongest of them
are carrying the babies all twisty-
wise"
1t was as he said. Why should not
the poor babies be complaining, held
in arms trembling with fatigue Yet
where else could they have been laid
There is no other place provided.
a little later in that same journey
another family party entered the car
Here, escorted by mother, father and
nurse, was a baby enjoying a make
shift travelling seat that anticipated
the day When all corporations will see
| fiji to provide some such device to meet
| the emergency of travelling with
| child. Or course that particular baby
| may have been marvel of good nature
to begin with, but the natural infer.
wherein it was carried, where
it was kept during the whole
iouruey-for the Ill, keshift seat
was merely ctrryine- basket, coin
mon bassinet, that really seemed too
matter-of-fact to cause such magic re-
suits. 1t was lined with soft pads: it
was Just long enough to hold the baby,
which might have been anywhere from
five to eight months old, and just short
enough fer easy Carr, iIg. As the car
was crowded, the nurse at first sat
with the basket on her knees until il
could be placed in the seat beside her
and opposite the parents. 1t was plain
that the basket and the baby were old
com panions, for it was at home therehs
one In his own castle. When it want
ed to sit up tine curvipg basket sides
held it steady as no arms could have
held, and when sleep overcame the
little creature it tumbled its small
heavy head over into its pads and
closed it's ewes. The motion of the
cars, broken by the unyielding basket,
was to that baby but a pleasant lula
by. There was no unquiet in its easy
resting place, and when it woke it was
to still lie,there placid and smiling,
kicking it bare feet contentedly. Ex-
cept vi hen it was fed, and for loving
word and smile now and then, baby
was let alone-that shibboleth of good
nursing. 1t was showed nothing out
of the window or in the car, and what
was evidently the old accustomed
rattle and favorite doll were its only
plavthings. Thus the unaccustomed
excitement and motion, the new faces,
aud the strange place were nullified by
the familiar belongings. The result
was, this is a true saying, a perfectly
placid baby doing its hundred miles
without cry, but with wood-pigeon
cooings and kittenlike slumbers and
big restful eyes which told OF the quiet
mind behind. IF you have one, take
it and run" as these parents were
running; but why not run after the
same fashion-with baby, as it were,
under your cloak ?
The less IL baby feels, sees, and hears
in its journeyings the less weary it is,
and as a consequence the less iC cries.
Nor is baby the only gamer by silence,
for she whose baby cries least in
| travelling is indeed the one whose tenn
pordry neighbors rise up and call her
blessed. -Hdrper S Bdzdr.