The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-11-03
Winifred Black Declares 1t Is Really
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IL l. bcral Education.
Winifred Black. in New York Jour-
nal: Now it's baby talk. You mustn't
talk it. The International, Inter-
globnlar, lnteruniverse Congress of
Mothers of the Solar System hath said
it. And the editor Of the big and
rather lively newspaper SAYS it, too.
He said it in print the other day, i'll
an editorial two columns wide and a
column long, double loaded and head
ed up good and big, SO people wouldn't
forget it. Don't talk baby talk, it
said; it hurts the baby.
Talk sense Teach the baby things.
When it sees a COW don't say, "See de
pity little mooley cowies! Kiss pity
cowie!' Say, My child, there is Il
COW. 1t is u useful animal. 1t gives
milk for YOU" Baby talk, says the
editor, is n waste of time and IA waste
OF good material.
Tut, tut. Mr.. Editor! What on
earth do You know about baby talk?
Have you ever talked it? No? Well,
then, you don't know what life's for.
Waste of time? Fudge! What's time
for? To make money in2 What for?
What's the use of money if you can't
have fun with it when you've got it?
Spells the baby? Nonsense! 1t does
the baby good. Watch the next one
you see listening to it and notice. Do
You think you could get a baby to
screw up its little shiny eyes, double
UP its fists and whoop with the mere
ecstacy of living by reading him II les
son OH how to be sensible, though you
die for it? What do you want women
to talk to babies? Greek?
Why don't you advise lovers to stop
telling each other how sweet the world
is since they met. They could be add
ing figures or studying Sanscrit while
they are wasting their time that way.
What's the use calling the woman you
love sweetheart? That isn't her name.
Call her Mary Jane and be sensible!
Why waste energy writing letters to
the girl you adore? Send her a laun-
dry bill. IT will improve her mind
and help out her in training for future
usefulness for you. What do you kiss
your gray-haired mother goodnight
for, and tell her that the apple pie she
made on purpose for. you is the best
you ever ate. You know it isn't. And
you might take the breath you use
making her happy and teach her
something. What2 Oh, anything. so
long as lisa fact. How many bricks
there are in a building u hundred feet
high and a hundred and fifty feet
long, for instance; or what the aver
age weight of the average man is ut
40 years of age if he has abs,ained
from the tobacco habit from infancy.
1t doesn't make the least bit of diff
ference what these facts are; Just
have 'em facts, and that will satisfy
the Gradgrinds.
No use!! Baby talk no use! Well,
if you come right down to that, fruit
is no particular use, and sauces have
no reason for being. Why don't YOU
live like a sensible being, Mr.. Editor,
and eat a hunk of bread and a chunk
of meat three times Il day? 1t would
cost less and be Il whole lot easier.
What are you buying those stunning
new waistcoats for the fall season for?
Get a blanket. cut a hole in it and
strap it around your waist.
If you must have the utility fad, do
he useful. But we common, everyday
felix, who love to live just for the
splendid fun of living, are Just going
to keep right on having a good time
in spite of all the congresses-and all
the editors in the world. We are go
ing to waste ink writing love letters
and waste time kissing our sweet
hearts and talking baby talk, and
when W. die one of us will have had
JUS about fifty times as much out of
life as any dozen of you serious mind
ed, fact loving folk.
Baby talk hurts Il baby! Goo-goo
- mean go to. 1t does them good,
and any baby that is reared without
it has missed a good thing and didn't
know it. Is not the life more than
meat and the body more than raj
ment??
I'd rather talk baby talk to my baby
than to take a course of scientific
study in any university on earth. And
any baby that hears plenty Of good,
old-fashicned, fool baby talk while it's
little will learn more concerning the
little matters of love and fun and
foolish, yearning affection than you
could study with the wisest professor
| on earth.
Facts are all well enough, Mr.. Edi-
tor, and information will do when you
have to have it; but to get the real es-
sence out Of this thing we call life
give me love and laughter and u whole
lot Of wholesome nonsense.