IMPORTANT TO BEREAVED HUSBANDS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2458, 3 February 1881, Page 3

IMPORTANT TO BEREAVED HUSBANDS.

A most useful invention for nursery Use, called a “baby-washer," is announced by a paper ; and the inventor describes his infant machine as follows: —“ You simply insert the begrimed and molasses-coated infant in an orifice, which can be made any required size by turning for four minutes a cog-wheel with electric attachments. The child glidesdown a highly polished incline plain. His lips are met at its terminence by an Indian rubber 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 choice breed of the Alderney kind raised on the estate of Her Majesty the Queen in the Isle of Wight. While in this compartment which has plate glass mirrors, the perturbed spirits of the infant are soothed by its frantic efforts to demolish its own image reflected in the glass with a nikel-plated combined tooth-cutter, nail-knife, rattle, and tack hammer, which is thrust into baby’s hand by an automaton monkey. Fatigued by its destructive efforts, the infant falls asleep, while the organ attachment plays softly the ravishing melody of “ Put me in my little bed.” Then it slips into the 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 pared and its hair combed, if it has any, ready for the habiliments rendered necessary by the fall of our first parents.”