MIXING BABIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 278, 30 November 1878, Page 6

MIXING BABIES.

: The unjustifiable conduct of some young men who were present' at -a dancing party near Waco in Texas,- last month,., has created much unpleasant feeling in :the neighborhood. It seems that most of the ladies who took part: in the : festivity brought babies with; them, and the noisy perversity of-the. infants prevented their mothers from enjoying, the dance. A number of. young, men, actuatod apparently yby kindly motives, gallantly volunteerecT to take charge of the little ones while the parents indulged in an old Virginia . "breakdown," Ihese mischievous young men, however, when left.in charge ! of the babies, immediately set to work to change the clothes of their innocent j charges — giving the apparel of one -to the other. At the conclusion, of .the dance, the mother, anxious to. return home, hurriedly snatched up a baby in the dress of her own, and started off, some of their homes being ten or fifteen . miles off, utterly'unconscious of the trick-that-had been played upon them. . At daybreak there was a general cqramor tion? r in the. district. Mothers dis-i covered to their horror that a single. night had changed iv many instances. even the sex of their babies ; and theq? commenced "some of the tallest female pedestrianism o« record." Living: miles apart, it took throe or. four days to uupiix the babies,. aud fears are en, tertained that ifc will take as many months to restore the indignant mothers to their- natural sweet dispositions. . In . the meantime, by latest accounts, it, is unsafe for any of the bab-cnixers to venture into the neighborhood.