ESSAYS ON BABIES.
A schoolmaster sends us the following, states the Manchester Guardian: — Average age of boys, 10 J years. Extracts from composition on babies. "Babies should not be taught bad habits." "As it grows older it begins to have teeth. By this time the mother will know whether it is a boy or a girl." "Then it begins to eat soft food such as cherries, plums, gooseberries, and soft peas." "We do not know where babies come from, but my mother always tells me they grow on cabbage leaves." "Babies are very innocent-look-ing, but most of them arc little demons. I have to mind our babies." "Some women have not the patience to have a baby." "If you want your baby to speak proper when it grows up, the mother takes it to have its tongue cut." "When they are first born they are blind until they are twelve months old." "They christen babies not only to give them their names, but to teach them the gospel of God." "Some babies can be put in a jug." "What is wanted is bigger houses and cheaper milk." "They should not be allowed to play with the fire."
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 October 1917, Page 4
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197ESSAYS ON BABIES. Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 October 1917, Page 4
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