A Bachelor's Suggestion.

Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 28

A Bachelor's Suggestion.

Why not put the baby in a bag at once and be done with it? Well, why not? We are sure that the helpless little creatures would feel far more comfortable tied up in bags than they do now done up in the awkward bundles known as ' baby clothes.' These bags should be roomy, of course, with a draw-string at the top and another at the bottom. No embroidery — no ruffles, no sleeves! Yes, just as much embroidery and just as many ruffles as you please j but no sleeves, unless the bag is made to open behind. The fashion of dislocating a baby's shoulder by bending back the little arm to force it into the sleeve of a garment made to open in front, is both useless and cruel. No wonder the little things scream and kick when they are bein^ dressed. Talk about a dress reform association for women ! It is reform in baby clothes that is most needed, and if a fashionable mother could be found brave enough to tie up her baby in dainty bags during the winter months, all the other mothers in the land would rise up and call her— a silly goose ; but they would follow the fashion 1 There would be another advantage in dressing in bags, which wise mammas would not be slow to discover— nursing would be made easy for papa. Men do make so many excuses when they are asked to 'hold baby a minute,' but the most prevalent excuse of all : ' Oh ! I'll get his clothes all mussed up,' would be out of order if they could carry the baby in a bag. The baby could not get out of it, neither could papa.