AMERICAN BABY-WASHER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 9 March 1881, Page 4

AMERICAN BABY- WASHER.

A most useful invention for nursery \iae, called a " Babywnsher," is announced by an AmeripM.'i paper ; and the inventor describes bis infant machino as f ollowi : —"You simply insert the begrimed and molasses coated infant in an orifice, which can be made any required size by turning for four minuses a cog-wheel with electric attachments. The child glides down a highly polished inclined plane. His lips aro met at its termination by an indiarubber tube, from which the infant can draw actual nourishment of the purest and most invigorating character, secured for the special purpose at great expense, from a choice breed of the Alderney kine raised on an estate of Her Majesty the Queen in the Isle of Wight. While in this compartment, which is plateglass mirror, the purturbed spirits of the infant are soothed by its frantic efforts to demolish its own image reflected in the glass with a nickel plated combined tooth-cutter, nail knife, rattle and tael-hammer, which i 3 thrust into the baby's hand by an automaton monkey. Fatigued by its destructive efforts the infant falls to sleep, attachment plays with the organs softly the ravishing melody of ' Put me in my little bed. . Then it slips into third compartment. Here the body is washed. Another small tube administers a dose of soothing syrup, and the infant glides from the machine, its nails paired and its hair combed, if it has any, ready for the habiliments rendered necessary by the fall of our first parents.