DONT'S BY THE BABY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 623, 28 September 1909, Page 3

DONT'S BY THE BABY.

Don't handle me more 'than.is /necessary. /:■ /■Don't put into my mouth, to stop me fron. crying, 'an old piece of rubber to suck. ~' It is. about' the worst j'abit I can get into. .' •''■ | , .-./ Don't let, any relative seo. me. - • Don t tako me up, strain me to your;breast , iiralk with me ; dance before trie like a'jWild: Indian/ shaking: a horrible rattle; or talk" gibberish to/mo when I : have a cryi'g spell',:. .•There..may' be somethingv-serious .the matter'-with me; hht this isn't goirig to help, v AVhen :I, push.- away-my bottle, don't fornjrrie'to eat> anything. ■ -. ~■..,' Don't take , me to ,'.ho.circus, prayer mant ■ ing,/, or vto'/spend , trhe/day , at the- .seashorj. ■I'm -riot: so old. • r >o/ fool-proof /as you are"; /.Don't-.kiss me.-.Take some one of ( your ow,»size/" '-.' ,- : ■/-; -.' :"'■■ '.. -. 'I'; ■'■ .- - '■/ z 'Don't show'your anxiety about "ine when in my/'presence.' I haven't any too much-conn-dence' in'myself., / / : " r ,- ...■,' :/ Don't be too: proud of my unnatural 'brigHf• ness. Itniay.be a form- of degeneracy. - ;■■ ~Don't, tell,anybody that I am only a little animal; ' Let them . gueas it. for' themselves • Don't take my temperature or .send, for tU doctor on the slighttit provocation. ■ '■' :."': :"-. Don't let tho light strike into /my- eyes. '■■ : -'-Don't , .-rock ine to -sleop; Bemember that th/e hand that rocks the cradle' is ruled by the baby.—"Lippincotfs Magazine." . ~: •