Show babies bob ingersoll was once asked to to toast tho the ladies at a dinner he understood it to bo be the babies and mado made a speech that should go down as ono one of the masterpieces of our english tongue the salt lako lake tribune tackles tho the subject as follows those babies are groat great institutions if they wore were to bo be banished from the world the alio chances are that mankind would grow so tired of this thia world that they would quit it altogether within a generation very probable but babies won wont keep so many of them got get to bo be groat great big horrid men that wo we almost wish they had been banished before the fresh swoot sweet little lipri encircled a cigarette or wore were stained a dusky brown by tobacco juice before the baby language lan of smiles and tears gave way to the rough profanity of the man mail before the cradle was abandoned for tho the horse race or mothers arms for the prize fight |