WHAT THE BABY CAN DO.
Tt can wear out a five shilling pair of kid shoos in 24 hours. I It can keep its father pusy advertising in the newspapers fora nurse. It can occupy both aides of the largest sized bed manufactured simultaneously. It can mako itself look like a fiend just when mamma wants to show •' what a pretty baby she has," It can make an old, batohelor in the room adjoining use language that, if uttered ou the street, would get him into the penitentiary for two years. It oau go to sleep " like a little angel" and just as mamma and papa are starting for the theatre it can wake up and Btayup till tho last aot. These are Boraeofthe things a baby oau do. But thei e are other things as well. A baby can make the commonest house the brightest spot on earth. It can lightens the burdens of a loving mothor's life by adding to them. It oan flatten its dirty little faoe against the window pauo iu such a way that the tired father oan see it as a pioture before he rounds the corner. Yob; babies are great institutions, particularly one's own baby.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 130, 3 June 1891, Page 4
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