The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-11-02
POOR LITTLE UNKISSED
BABY.


The Antiseptic Baby a Great
Invention, but the Greatest
Men Have Been Reared by
Hand"
Baltimore Sun.
Don't let a microbe bite the
baby"
claws Ella in j, h his chubby !, arm, arm"
about a thousand "don'ts" seem
to be thefrst course in the
science of baby culture.
Of course, all Of US who have
infants want to have a thoroughly
clean and healthy child-an an
tiseptic baby. But some of these
germicide mothers, who try to
rear infants by rule and book, as
if carrying out a recipe for cake,
are likely to bring up faxen-hair-
ed "mollycoddles."
Two English parents have set
the pace by never kissing their
own baby and never allowing
anyone else to kiss it, and have
posted up in the hall of their
house the following set of rules;
! Don't kiss the baby.
Don't handle baby unless your
hands are very, very clean.
Don't bring baby's face close
to your own or to your hair.
Don't allow baby to touch your
; face or hair.
Don't talk, breathe, whistle
blow, cough, or sneeze into baby'f
face. We want him to live.
Don't use your handkerchie.
to baby's hands, face, or mouth
To some these rules will appea
comical or stupid, but they ar
not written as joke or Withou
, thought. Therefore, any persol
infringing these rules after hav
, ing read them, will incur our dis
: pleasure extremely.
Think of a baby who has new
err been kissed, never fondled
never crooned to sleep in it
mothers arms. What pleasur
" does he have in life if he can
crawl over the floor and roo
> around the carpet?
g Why, he can't even pull papa
o whiskers or mammals hair. Ever
: time you want to pick him u
: you have to wash your hands i
!. antiseptic soap, change you
q clothes to hospital protectors an
: pick him up with a porcelain kiC
~ litter. Of course, if you war
o to keep the child absolutely fire
i from germs you should bath
q him every hour, and have hil
+ sterilized and keep him rolled i
=, cotton batting.
4 Perhaps most of US will ge
y along with the good old-fashior
ed way of rearing babies. tn
old saying is that each one Of U
must eat his peck of dirt, and
we start young we get used to
by the time we grow up.
le The greatest men in tn
country have been reared h
hand" so to speak reare
# when the people let the kids an
# the germs fight it out; and tt
is germs generally got licked, "
always pitied the poor little il
" cubator babies who could not s
I back and caress the baby M
# chine with the same warmth (
TO affection that they could besto
upon the woman who rookie
as them to sleep.
v The antiseptic baby is a gre
invention, but we will stall
TO against it every time the chi
who crawled around in the san
De made mud pies, painted himse
t. with chalk or SCOT and cou
n with ease dispose of thirtet
f. fresh white dresses in q sing
a. day. The baby that the moth
n. holds in her arms while s
]. sings it to sleep with an oil
time lullaby-the baby that C;
n. bring his troubles to her a
es have them smoothed away wi
a pat and a kiss-is the one W
il makes the man. The soft son
lie that he heard as he was rock
to sleep linger in his memo
IS. like some smoothing strain
&C. hull the cares and troubles
of life. All the germicides a
, a antiseptics, all the rules a
I. regulations will furnish agair
the trials, troubles and vicis
w. tudes of the world no protect
zee like the memory of a mothe
love and tender kiss.
wo Poor little unkissed baby!
ri Do Your Work Well.
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