A BACHELOR ON BABIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 8, 20 February 1892, Page 179

A BACHELOR ON BABIES.

A suffering bachelor exposes himself to the execrations of mothers by the following cold-blooded tirade. He says : • The persistency with which some mothers thrust their babies upon the notice of society may be an amiable weakness, but it is nevertheless a bore. Babies are wellsprings of delight, no doubt, but everybody is not athirst for them. If they were a rarity they would perhaps be held in more general esteem; but, alas ! they are as plenty as blackberries and so very much alike that it is difficult to distinguish the “ sweetest baby in the world ” from tne next one you meet. The domestic histories of babies, as related by their maternal historians, are also nearly identical. They all have the same “ winning ways,” make the same inarticulate noises, and have the same little ailments ; so that the nursery anecdotes of one fond mother would suffice, with very slight variations, for the entire tribe. It is trite that some infants sleep well o’ nights, and that others—more’s the pity—are of dissipated nocturnal habits, and insist upon being walked about in their parents’ arms when they ought to be in those of Morpheus : but that is of no importance except to the parties immediately concerned. Their untimely sprees are of no interest as a breakfast table topic, and whether their techiness is superinduced by “ teeth ” or original sin, concerns not the world at large.