Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-02-05

GAZING FOK THE. BABIES.
Dear Corner Friends: After reading
your letter, Persis, think your time
spent with your babies more satisfac-
tory than any other way. When ! see
mothers with babies, wanting to go here,
and there and leave the little things with
others, I always think if / had my life to
live over I never would do that thing
again.
Il was looking at a picture Of darling
little baby in a magazine, and under the
picture was these words, Introducing
the Most Important Citizens in the
World.''
How do you like babies?'' some wc-
man asked a man.
"B-b-boiled, Madam" suffered the
man.
u In the beginning of the race nobody
except mothers liked babies. The rec
| ortls of civilization show progress writ
| ten in babies blood.
| Babies had no rights They were a
necessary evil. In the South Sea ISL
| ands, when either parent died, the chill
| dren were slain and buried also, to wait
on the parents in the other world.
In China it is estimated that 40 per
cent. of the girl babies in the provinces
of the interior were drowned. In India
| when a girl baby was born, the mother
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inhaling it with the mothers milk, died.
Inside the great iron statue of Moloch, a
| roaring fire was built on holy days, and
| into the white hot arms Of the god wo-
men hurled their screaming infants. Even
the Greeks, who established a. civilization
higher than that of any other ancient
people regularly exposed their unde-
sired infants on the mountainsides. And
Socrates, their greatest man, saw nothing
in the practice to condemn. Little by
little, through the succeeding centuries
the Daby has been coming into his own
Romulus, who founded Rome, took the
first forward step; the emperor Hadriau
, made another advance
But il was Christianity that discovered
the baby. All motherhood became sane
titled in the worship paid to Mary, the
mother of Jesus. All childhood was en-.
Eobled by the Babe in the manger. To
day we measure the civilization. of a ma
ton by the question: How does it trea
its babies? And the civilization of al
, Individual can be measured by the sam,
test but one little section in your hom,
of the human race is given to you ire
! vocably-youE babies. If there is a bah.
in OUR home, nursing bottles ought t.
be more important to is than stocks o.
bonds We ought to know more abou
. |
we know about cards or golf. Our bust
5 ness is important because it makes on
! living. But our home is all Mnportan
because there we make lives.
This is baby's letter and our hat
8 are off to the little fellows-the futur
proprietors of the earth, the most i'm
r portant citizens in the world.
Eliza Jane: I make potato candy. M
L recipe is three tablespoons of hot mash
I ed potato to one pound confectioners su
r gar. Mash potato very fine and hay
e it hot, then stir in your one pound O
l sugar. You can make peppermint candy
< by adding a few drops of peppermint
t Sprinkle board with fine sugar roll an
cut out drops. Stir in chocolate an
you have chocolate candy. You ca
; make cocoanut candy. I sent some car
e dy to the lady who lives next to you, an
. that is the way I made hers. Three ia
p -bLespoons of hot, mashed potato to on
0 pound confectioners sugar. You cam ad
, nuts and raisins if you wish.
i Another good recipe is one pound cor
PETITIONERS sugar, and just enough boilin
] water to make a heavy paste, one tea
2 spoon butter. Stir; that to a heavy cream
= If you like chocolate flavor use Cocoa
l This also makes an excellent filling 70
cake. You may put in vanilla or lemon
hPrune Toast: Thick slices of breat
crust cut off, two tablespoons butter, one
half pound prunes which have been pre-
viously cooked long enough to enable tn
4 pits to be removed. Sweeten and flavc
b to taste. Pour over the bread, which ha
S Dceu Drowned, on both sides with the bur
e Ter in the frying pan, and serve wit
e cream or top milk.
l must not forget the roll call Mer1
n Widow, Becky and Canterbury Bell.
q KITTY LOU.