Babyhood . tea willingness on the part of readers to give to others the benefit of any nursery helps which they may havedevised. It is desirable that a rough sketch accotnpany such descriptions as may be illustrated. A HAMMOCK-CRADLE. WITH our foremothers the cradle was animportant household institution. Thehouse-mother had it beside her when she spun,her foot was upon it while she sewed, the olderchildren were set to rock it if she must needsbe busied away from it ; whatever befell, allwell-conducted babies were expected to spendmost of their hours in the cradle until the agefor creeping arri
Babyhood . tea willingness on the part of readers to give to others the benefit of any nursery helps which they may havedevised. It is desirable that a rough sketch accotnpany such descriptions as may be illustrated. A HAMMOCK-CRADLE. WITH our foremothers the cradle was animportant household institution. Thehouse-mother had it beside her when she spun,her foot was upon it while she sewed, the olderchildren were set to rock it if she must needsbe busied away from it ; whatever befell, allwell-conducted babies were expected to spendmost of their hours in the cradle until the agefor creeping arrived. In out-of-the-way farm-houses one may still see the same practices inthe rearing of children, but in the main thecradle as a useful institution has disappeared,whether because our children are higher-bredand less phlegmatic, or because their mothers,being less heavily burdened, have lost the art of. putting off babies. There is no doubt that the delight in meremonotonous motion is natural to Some babies are soothed by trotting, others pre-fer rocking, while they all like a steady a country baby has been jolted to sleepin a rockerless, rush-bottomed chair, and it iswonderful how they enjoy the seemingly bar-barous motion. Perambulators are often in-valuable in cases of sickness among infants,when they frequently refuse to sleep anywhere else. Babies are soothed by carriage-riding,but they will have none of the too-smooth mo-tion of a row-boat. Children of all ages delightin a swing and are rarely seasick at sea. Greatis the astonishment of the maturing child whenswinging first causes him strange qualms in thestomach. There have been many revolts against thislaw of childhood. Revolutionary parents raisetheir children without rocking, or trotting, orwalking, or riding, but hardly without themall. It is doubtful whether such attempts, in sofar as they go counter to ease in rearing chil-dren, are not useless expenditures of can hardly seriousl
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