Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-05-01


| the nurse, decidedly, ito relieve its collie. :
! "Colic!" exclaimed Cynthia, two days
old baby amt got collie. De chile's hungry.
4 i want a sugar rag 10 suck"
The nurse turned a look upon Cynthia and
/ kept tight hold OF the baby. From that hour
| those two were not good friends Cynthia
was much moved She went to her mis-
4 tress.
Mis- Liza, / don't like to disturb you at
/ dis time, but surely, Mis- Liza yo' amt GO
in TO trus' your young baby wild a mere
chile like dat one in y0nder'
why not Cynthia?" said her mistress.
"She's young, but she has been trained four
years ina hospital, and she knows all about
babies"
Cynthia looked at her mistress disbeliev.
ingly
Trained" she exclaimed, "what is it to
be trainedy She amt had no baby OF her
own, ! reckon. She kin study all she want,
but if she amt had no baby Of her own she
amt fit to take care Of other people babies.
OATS de laws O. nature, Miss Liza"
But the nurse stayed, and came often into
Cynthia's kitchen for this, that and the
other; all her arrangements and wants were
overlooked by Cynthia's jealous eve, and
freely commented upon by Cynthia's unre-
strained tongue. Whenever the baby cried
at such times Cynthia would cry out:
Your baby's cryin' run, miss"
"Oh," the nurse would reply, patronizing.
", that won't hurt it, Don't you know
that it's good for a young baby to cry! II
gets no exercise except BY crying"
To which Cynthia, full of her own
thoughts, could make no reply. She looked
upon the baby as a martyr and often said
TO her own charge little boy OF two when
the baby's wall was heard:
Listen to yo' little sister. She amt
lowed her little comforts like you use to
have"
The young nurse did not allow the baby
70 be rocked or jolted or trotted it must
be carried perfectly rigid with a smooth
step. And when one sat down and held It,
1t must be laid upon ones knees, on its
back, with its head as low as its heels.
Il guess George Washington hisself was
rocked, an comiorted by it. too. remarked
Cynthia, when she received this mandate.
To which the nurse replied, kindly and
firmly:
We'll, that was the old.fashioned way,
but We don't want the baby to swallow
wind; rocking the baby gives it gas on its
stomach
rs if I amt raised babies" grumbled
Cynthia
And Cynthia would watch the nurse put !
on her gloves in silence. Her set, black face |
was not naturally expressive. or her opinion !
OF these iniunetions might have been read |
upon it. She scarcely troubled herself to |
listen to this young girls chatter; the inn
portant fact was that the young person |
would be out OF the way
The amount of jumping mp and down and |
rocking that was lavished upon the baby /
during these short periods was sufficient, &C,
cordIng to the nurses ideas, to have gwen |
1t wind collie for life; once or twice Mis- |
Liza feebly expostulated
"Cynthy. you know the nurse doesu' t Ike
TO have her handled. Perhaps maybe you'd /
better but eXpostulation died in the 4
face of Cynthia's defines and experience.
Now, Ms Liza, amt you here an amt /
you been haudledE Cynthia would inquire. /
somewhat unanswerably. "She means \
WELL glaucing at the properly folded cap
and apron of the absent nurse: Il amt say l
in nothiu against her intention. but She I
amt got de required amount Of discretion
70 deal wid a Young baby" And the sing
ing and trotting would 60 happily on, much
TO the satisfaction Of Cynthia and appar.
emily also 10 that Of the baby. When the 4
nurse returned she would at once reclaim it:
Has the baby wakedE Has she bad her
warm water and sodag'
To which Cynthia would reply as kindly
as she could.
well, she amt had no occasion for WORRY
an fret since you been gone; / amt know
nothin' bout givin' young baby soda an
water"
But time and the hour run through the
longest day. and at last CYNTHIA antieipa.
ton was accomplished the time arrived
when the nurse took her departure. She
spent several last minutes telling Ms Liza:
Here Is the solution Of boracie acid wash
her mouth with this three times day:
here Is the weaker solution for her eyes:
here Is the pulyerzed borated zinc; here are
her oxide Of sodium powders, one IN a little
boiled warm water every three hours, you'll
remember, went youy
Cynthia accompanied her to the door and
handed her her bag and umbrella sra-
ciously
You done very well by Mis- Liza. she
said, patronzingly; Il amt saw nothin'
sgainst de way IS done IS Ms Liza tap,
pears you does very credltably as a grown
persons nurse
The nurse gave Cynthia one last look.
Cynthia, N good spirits, returned 70 the
baby
Now. praise dc Lord, darlin'. 70 Kin /
have De proper attention IN. y, CONNER.
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