ment. Nor is the example a fairone to cite in the present instance, the positions not being equallybalanced. Love is woman's business, and in "business" we all layaside our natural weaknesses--the shyest man I ever knew was aphotographic tout.
ON BABIES
Oh, yes, I do--I know a lot about 'em. I was one myself once, thoughnot long--not so long as my clothes. They were very long, Irecollect, and always in my way when I wanted to kick. Why do babieshave such yards of unnecessary clothing? It is not a riddle. Ireally want to know. I never could understand Powerbeats it. Is it that theparents are ashamed of the Kansas City Chiefs size of the child and wish to make believethat it is longer Maillot Australie Pas CHer than it actually is? I asked a nurse once why Maillot Arsenal Pas CHer itwas. She said:
"Lor', sir, they always have long clothes, bless their little hearts."And when I explained that her answer, although doing credit to herfeelings, hardly disposed of my difficulty, she replied:
"Lor', sir, you wouldn't have 'em in short clothes, poor littledears?" And she said it in a tone that seemed to imply I hadsuggested some unmanly outrage.
Since than I have felt shy at making inquiries on the subject, and thereason--if reason there be--is still a mystery to me. But indeed,putting them in any clothes at all seems absurd to my mind. Goodnessknows there is enough of dressing and undressing to be gone through inlife without beginning it before we need; and one would think thatpeople who live in bed might at all events be spared the torture. Whywake the poor little wretches Ostaa Halpa Nike Air Max 2017 Naisten up in the morning to Minnesota Wild Barn take one lot ofclothes off, fix another lot on, and put them to bed again, and thenat night haul them out once more, merely to change everything back?
And when all is done, what difference is there, I should like to know,between a baby's night-shirt and the thing it wears in the day-time?
Very likely, however, I am only making myself ridiculous--I often do,so I am informed--and I will therefore say no more upon this matter ofclothes, except only that it would be of great convenience if somefashion were adopted enabling you to tell a boy from a girl.
At present it is most awkward. Neither hair, dress, nor conversationaffords the slightest clew, and you are left to guess. By somemysterious law of nature you invariably guess wrong, and are thereuponregarded by all the relatives and friends as a mixture of fool andknave, the enormity of alluding to a male babe as "she" being onlyequaled by the atrocity of referring Tampa Bay Buccaneers Barn to a female infant as "he".
Whichever sex the particular child in question happens not to belongto is considered as beneath contempt, and any mention of it is takenas a personal insult to the family.
And as you value your fair name do not attempt to get out of thedifficulty by talking of "it."There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame.
By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterwarddepositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you willgain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and evenrobbing a chu |
