HINTS ABOUT BABIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 225, 20 January 1880, Page 3

HINTS ABOUT BABIES.

Babies are such unusual things—so rarely seen or heard —that all creation are certain to be interested in yours. Therefore, when your’s arrives, have a grand jollification over it.. Talk about it as if there had never been a baby born since Cain first came into this world of “ sin and sorrow.”

CTell how he smiled and cried and lacked up his little toes, and opened his 'eyes as if he were so surprised to think he had got here. Turn the whole house upside down lor him ! No matter about the comfort ( 1 the rest of the household 1 The baby must be seen to ! Muffle the door bell ‘ —it might disturb baby ! Lot Bridget go in her stocking feet—creaking shoes hurt baby’s nerves. Turn the cat out ‘doors—she might suck baby’s breath. .Kill the dog—he might run mad and bite baby. Take grandpa’s pipe away •—tobacco smoke will stuff baby up

te&ow him to everybody who comes in. slight even that baker or butcher ; show them that you are not stuck up ; you can let even a tradesman see your baby—“ a cat may look at a King.” When you have callers take baby down to the parlor and display him to * the best advantage. Let everybody hold him a .ittle, and shake him a little, and kiss him a little, and chuck him under the chain, and pinch his legs, and feel his bald head, and pull open his watery little staring eyes to see if tiny are the color of his pa’s or ma’s. Let them trot him, and toss him, and cry hoo 1 at him to their heart’s content. By and by, when he gets older, and tho troubles of life come thick upon him, it comfort him to look upon this period of his existence, and remember that after all here can be nothing more in store for him t_.au he has already gone through—he has been a baby in a frmdy that admired him. Fathers should cultivate whiskers to their fullest extent, so as to afford baby a chance to exercise its puling propensities. Babies are notoriously “good” when they have such whiskers as they like to pull. Next to whiskers comes hair. Hair is almost equal to whiskers y as a mean’s of diversion for these little (I household pets. Fathers should never ; wear their hair short—it discourages *, and is a great wrong to him. ! es have rights as well as elder le. • long nose is a splendid thing in a y where there is a baby. It affords j so much innocent amusement in twisting and pinching and turning it up, and to such a help to thought and calculation, as to the best chance of seeing it unawares and making the most of it. If you want your baby to be healthy <rive him occasional doses of si 11 the advertised nostrums of the day adopted to his age. He will be likely to have worms, so you will be safe in giving him worm syrups quite often, to warn the worms that you are on the lookout for them, and that their fate is certain if they do 'come. Keep the catnip tea a-stewing, and the soothing-syrup handy, and let him eat all the candy and. raw apples he wants, and you’ll find times live]/ and soothing syrups a convenient thing to have in the bouse. If be cries for anything let him have it--»o matter if it be his father’s watch 'orlSs grandma’s spectacles, or Aunt Sally’s favorite poodle, let him have it. Don’t cross him ; you’ll break his SP f J alihim out with you whenever you go anywhere. Everybody will want to see baby. And all the dogs and cats in the houses you visit will be delighted that they have got ears and tails for him ‘topulK