Babyhood . he tintsof virtueand of beauty as to form a perfect, living picture. BABYHOOD. NURSERY HELPS Babys Tyer. I hardly know bow I should have carried? out my resolution to take care of my baby with-out a nurse had it not been for a simple littlecontrivance of mine, which I would like to de-scribe to other mothers. My baby was taught to put himself to sleep,but at eight or nine months old a new difficultyarose. The moment he was laid in his crib hewould rear himself right up on his little legs,and, holding on to the bars of his crib, standlooking over the top, perfectly contented andamiab
Babyhood . he tintsof virtueand of beauty as to form a perfect, living picture. BABYHOOD. NURSERY HELPS Babys Tyer. I hardly know bow I should have carried? out my resolution to take care of my baby with-out a nurse had it not been for a simple littlecontrivance of mine, which I would like to de-scribe to other mothers. My baby was taught to put himself to sleep,but at eight or nine months old a new difficultyarose. The moment he was laid in his crib hewould rear himself right up on his little legs,and, holding on to the bars of his crib, standlooking over the top, perfectly contented andamiable, but in a position which made sleep im-possible, unless for a horse. What was to bedone ? I hated to punish such a little creature,but lie down he must. I accordingly took apiece of very coarse, strong linen, cut two arm-holes in it, and arranged buttons and button-holes upon it, to form a little waist. Under thearm-holes I sewed very strongly two long stripsof linen about four inches wide. This little. tyer being put on, and Baby being laiddown, the strings were passed round a crib-bar on each side, then brought together andtied, so that though the strings could moveround the bars and allow him to turn fromside to side, it was impossible for him to rise. Cruel ! shameful ! some one will exclaim. What! tie up a poor little baby not a yearold? Where was the objection, if Baby himself madenone ? I do not think that he disliked his newstyle of jacket even the first time he wore it;and, at any rate, he very soon regarded it as somuch a matter of course that if there was anydelay in tying the strings he would himself placethem in my hands or try to put them round thebars. He wore the jacket till he was, I think, nearly AND NOVELTIES. four years old, for up to that time there was stillan occasional freak of wishing to get up ; and itwas much easier both for him and for me thathe should fret a little, or even cry, safely lyingon his back, than that we should go throughscenes of coe
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