WHAT THE BABY CAN DO.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 August 1891, Page 4

WHAT THE BABY CAN DO.

It can wear put afiye^sbilling pair of kid shoes in' twenty-four nburs. J ■. It can keep its father busy advertising in the; newspapers for a nurse.; :■ -\ „ , .It caii pcqupy bp^h sides. ( of; thelargest■sized; bed 1 manufactured, ■simultaneously. it can cause its father to! bteinsulfedby every second-class lodging-house ; keeper in the city >vho " never takes children," which, ' in nine cases put of ten, is very fortunate for 1 the children.' " - i It can make itself .look like a fiend just [ when mamma wants to show " what a pretty baby shtJ has.' 1 ■ ■*-::.:• -^„ „ It can make an old bachelor in the room, ftd join ing. psel;an'giiafee that,' if uttered on the street, would get him into gaol, for six weeks. It can go from the farthest end df the .room rto'. the foot pf ihs sikirs in the hall ■ beloW quicker "than its mother can jusl; step intp the Uedroorh and out again. . It can s;q tpjijleep,. 1 : like a jlUtle angel," aid just ashiia'nihfaahd papa are starting for the ♦heat re it can wake up and stay awake.tjll the last a;cb.j, ;;/..; •\:ii •' \ „:. -.,. , These are! some of the things a baby can do. l-<ut. there are other things as well: ' ;A babj*' can liiake the commonest house the brightebt spot on earth. ■;, ' ,-':ri : i jLt pan i lijjhteu 1 tajs ' burdens of a loving, rnothei's life by adding to them, jlt cpn tlattan it3 'dirty little faceagqinstthe window ip.ule iri - sitc!i'a Way that the pred father caii $>co : it ifts--a picture before"hß founds the conie.s. I'os. babius are gi-eaf'iSistitutions, paiticuhyi (y cn^fs o,wn 'baby.-t ' ) \