HOW TO FEED BABIES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2092, 6 November 1880, Page 3

HOW TO FEED BABIES.

In her story of " Amandar,"in "Harper's," Bose Terry Cooke, describing a quilting scene, gives Mrs Green's experienco in baby diet—- " Bezy's as pernickety as a woman about the child; he won't lemme give it a speck of uothin' but red cow's milk, an' he's nigh about seven months old, an' he'd oughter set in lap to the table, an' take a taste o' vitties along with us. My land! my children used to set to an' grab things as quick as ever I fetched 'em where they could. Little Jemmy was the greatest hand for b'iled cabbage ever ye did see ; an pork.' how that child would holler for fried pork! Thera wa'n't no peace to the wicked till she got it; she'd ha' been a splendid child ef she'd lived, but the summer complaint was dreadful prevalent that year, an' it took her off in the wink of an eye, as he may say; allers doth the healthy children. Then my Samwell, why, he was the greatest hand for pickles that ever was ; he'd git a hunk o' fried steak into one leetlo hand an' a piokle into t'other, an' he would orow an' squal. Cuttin' of his stomach teeth was the end o' him ; got 'em tco early, was took with convulsions, an' died right off. An' the twins : well, they favored boans—baked beans an' minute puddin' ; they was 18 months old when they died, an' they eat toast an' cider like good fellers, only the day they was too siok ; we'd hed buckwheat an' tree molasses for breakfast that day, an' I expect they'd eat so much sweet it kinder made 'em squamy, so 't the hard cider jest hed the right tang. Poor little oreturs! mabbe 'twas the bilious colic acorain' on made 'em dry; anyway they was awful sick with 't, an' they died a Sunday week, for they was took of a Sunday, an'—"