What a Baby Can Do.

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 37

What a Baby Can Do.

What a baby can do is explained by "Five, j Talents of Women," a new work just published: — A baby can beat any alarm clock evei in vented, waking a family up in the morning. It can make more genuine fuss over a simple brass pin than its mother would over a bioken back. - ' It can fall down oftener and with" less provocation than the most expert tumbler in the circus ring. Give it a chance, and it can smash' more dishes than the most industrious servant girl in the country. It can choke itself black is .the face with greater ease than 'the most accomplished wretch that was ever executed. 1 It can keep a family in a constant turmoil from morning till night and night till morning without once varying its tune. It can be relied upon to sleep peacefully (all day when its father is away at business, and cry persistently at night when he is pits* ticularly sleepy. It may be the naughtiest, dirtiest, ugliest, most fretful baby in all the world, but you can never make its mother believe it/iufrr you had better not try. ■ It can be a charming and model infant w.hen no one is around, but when visitors are present it can exhibit more bad temper than Jboth of its parents together. It can brighten up a house better than all the furniture ever made, make sweeter music than the finest orchestra ever organised; fill a larger place in its parents' breast than they knew they had, and when it goes away it can cause a greater vacancy and leave a greater blank that all the rest of the world put together.—lndianapolis News.