Show from the be the infants appeal we the in diters members of the infant so clety being fully determined on our own account and in behalf of the rising generation cry aloud for reform in the system of management to which we are subjected both pare parental 11 tal tai and ani professional which is often uncivil and in medical cheref therefore ore in consi consideration of the fact that we are forcibly brought into this existence without bearc being con consulted bulted even in regard to our feelings tastes or wishes do we set forth herein what we claim to he ba our rights and resolve ithac that un less they shall be lie granted to us it will gift hereafter le be useless to cry peace peace for their shall be no peace reace first we claim the right to draw from that fountain which nature has bus provided for our sustenance te nance and which is conceded to be the only source from which we can derive the materials for a vigorous growth the too loo common practice of ta cutting from this source source to avaid avoid the necessity of attendance on our wants wu we regard as unworthy a christian mother and inhuman second we protest against the partiality exhibited by or mothers iii iu nursing making parlor companions of them and taking them out riding on pl pleasant days while we are turned over to he be nur nursed ed by bridget and kept meek i eek after week confined to the house honse without eveh even an airing citing third we ave claim as our right a place in the tile parental bed and deem it a very poor excuse for tucking us away with the nurse that our mother coles comes home from parties arid and opens late at night thich wm id be likely to disturb us if we re occupied lir ilor li r room fourth we are opposed to medicine which would mould seldom be required if we were properly nursed by our mothers and otherwise cared for or and we have no disposition to take it as a substitute sti eute tute and f especially do we raise our voices against the practice of many nurses who secretly keep beep a bottle of paregoric or godfreys godfreyh God freys cor dial and fi norce force orce arce down our throats a dose in the evening so that we cannot disturb them in the Ili rii night girt glit fifth firth we appeal most feelingly against the practice often for fashions sake of dipping us into cold water every morning and sometimes morning and jand night it gives an unnecessary shock to our which may be avoided by substituting the tepid sponge which we are willing to submit to so far as s requires I 1 sixth white while we are ore onnen often deprived of our natural nourishment we are over ted fed with nith ith unwholesome food by way of compensation with this practice we become dig disgusted ind tilrow up which the tiie nurse seems to consider an indication for something more to fill up the vacant space and thus we I are stunted from day to to day which excites no not 1 t only our stomach but our tem pers ners cers and we get the credit of being very wun spun sun hy y these and many other abuses to which lich rich we are subjected deprive us of the ability to grow in health beaith and strength as nature intended we should and con consequently s e quent quentis ly about half of us get t sickly and die before we are old enouch to take lake care of ourselves believing that of I 1 all rights the rights of infants are first in importance we appeal to universal manhood for reform in this matter by establishing for us a better letter system of maternal government und and that we may be elevated to a proper position in the social c cale scale und and no longer be deemed unwelcome burtrens bur to be ashamed of i ELEPHANT the editor of the new enelina engi Ene lind arid farmer earmer having hiving made some inqui ries respecting the det of the elephant whose exploits in plowing have been mentioned in a way not likely to encourage the general intro of thit thu kind of labor he ile eats eals on an average one bushel of oata and one hundred pound of hay per day sundays arid and all his weight is pounds lie he will accomplish any kind of work ept set before him and uses ten times better beller than three fourths of noflie vile tile help which I 1 am obliged to em ploy on my farm above all things he ia is ml nt an eye servant oace set oat him hin tiu tim dwork piling wood picking up stones blones or any thing else you can leae leaie him with ut fear of his playing old cold soldier in your absence another capital negative quality is that he lie dont pick up his duds and start for home exacts exactly y at six in the afternoon as many other farmers assistants do ile he is willing to labor till sundown and even later if botkin working ia is pressing on the tiie whole he is a very honorable industrious ind ustious intelligent and well behaved farmer never nevertheless thele 1 I cannot conscientiously recommend as the cheapest workers on a farm carmi they cannot work in cold weather and of course would eat themselves up trunk and all 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