ON GROWN UP BABIES AND OTHER HUMAN PHENOMENA.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 11, Issue 833, 14 December 1888, Page 8

ON GROWN UP BABIES AND OTHER HUMAN PHENOMENA.

True children are simple. We once heard of a little girl,.an Earl's daughter too, who had been carefully kept ici ignnranCe of all distinctions! between poor and rich and who would say, "Mother this old lady has asked me for a penny," and Why does hot our new nurse have her diijner with you? She is grown-up and she tells nice stories," To which my lady would answer, 'Nurse would not -like that ; she has a particular liking for dining with the cook.' Now the very opposite to this type is the grown-up baby who looks like a little figure cut out of a fashion-plate. She is a society baby and she has been so much with older people that she has grown-up too, ■fjind'the basis o? her happiness is the fact that she is yery pretty and so are her dresses. This child detects beggars with a sagacity that leaves the house-dog nowhere. JShe shrinks from a ragged coat ; she dislikes a shabby one. No old sailoi will show her a boat and give her a fingei to shake when she goes to tbe seaside No gardener will ever play at pretending that she helps him to drag the garder roller. There is abroad division betweer this dainty little drawing-room lady anc the common world ; and in all gay foil and showy things she is prjdjgiouslj interested — not in kindly poorer folk .There is r.o use in giving, her toys unl^s: b they ' have cost money ; she is proud t< s possess a'great doal of riches f of her owj

- in. a money -box and /finer nursery trear BUr.es than any of her friends can show " her. If the little Jenkynses (with ay 3 mind always) had^a larger tea-set tlia,n ? hers, the i would weep aloud — and vers ' much aloud — till \she get 3 one at least 3 twice as large as the Jenkynseb' — which ? is exactly, in miniature what happens I with all her grown up acquaintances, who \ have no happiness in this world, and worry everybody else unless their china f dolls, of a grown-up sort, are twice, as fine as those o.f Ihe friends they love and * play with— 4n their own way. Altogether the little ladyjis- v a , miniature woman of the world \ ?h"#has ; Ifeft off beipg a child a long, time sg^,' and is considered af ;hpme to. be perfection jn ;emsjro v Sh> ( will learn to look down qpon hir teachers' by and by. . '** Lekrh M^zai tS" she will say in placid ignorance — "Is Mozart : nice grpwji-up music ?:' *• Yes everyone likes. Mozait." Ah ! then I would r: ther not; : Mozart must be common." She will be blasee at eleven and despise every-thing-—from chocolate to Christmas-time: At twelve a* e-will' be the victim of ennui "It is an empty world ; let me buy a new hat !' - From Cassell's Family Magazine. __^ ,-, ■