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Show Infants Under Year Old Enjoy Christmas Gifts, Baby Claims 1 f if ? ' nJh " rs'--r ' f ftf 1 I "Of course we babies can enjoy Christmas gilts." Dear World: Of course, I'm disgusted. You'd feel this way too if folks said you were too dumb to enjoy Christmas. They say that we babies less than a year old don't need presents because be-cause we can't appreciate them anyway. The idea! A lot of other babies are also complaining com-plaining about this attitude. Why, we can talk better English than most grown-ups. "Dud iddy biddy baby want pretty rattle-wattle? Daddikens will pick it up from the floorsie-worsie for oo." ( Phoey! If I couldn't talk better than this I'd keep still. And then they have the audacity to assume that babies under one year are too young to enjoy Christmas. Last month we conducted a poll among babies 12 months of age or younger, asking them if they considered con-sidered themselves capable of enjoying en-joying Christmas. Exactly 987 of the 1,000 babies I questioned replied emphatically in the affirmative. The 13 who voted "no" are going to be a year old before Christmas and felt they would have a better chance of getting get-ting presents from relatives if their younger cousins were left out. But that's a purely selfish motive and doesn't affect the unanimity of the poll. Now that you have had indisputable indisput-able proof that babies enjoy Christmas, Christ-mas, don't rush out to buy us an electric train or bicycle. After all, we act our age even though we know better. There are several points you should keep in mind while looking through the toy department: We want toys that will attract our attention, at-tention, and they must be cleaned easily. We babies have a bad habit of putting things in our mouths, so if the toy is too small, we might swallow it. Don't worry, though. We'D get over the habit. Colored bakelite disks on a chain make one of the nicest and least expensive gifts for babies. We can have a lot of fun playing with those white, yellow, red and green disks. And they're real easy to keep clean, too. Other children want only toys they can play with, but we babies can appreciate the more practical gifts such as cribs, playpens and jumper-swings. They are virtual necessities to us and make our lives much more pleasant. Clothing also makes excellent gifts. A few of the many articles we would be glad to receive include shirts, night gowns, dresses, rompers, romp-ers, shoes, stockings and" bonnets. One of the most practical and welcome gifts for any baby would be an automobile seat. These can be attached to the seat of any automobile auto-mobile and permit babies to see out, but prevent them from falling out. Babies must be able to sit up before using them, but all babies learn to sit up before they are very old. And we enjoy looking out of the window of the car as much as you do. It's no fun just looking at the inside of the car when we're going some place. How would you like it? Another practical gift would be a life-insurance policy that will mature ma-ture in about 18 years and provide funds for a college education. Or, savings account can be opened in baby's name for as little as $1 but you don't have to make it that small. We babies can't get Christmas presents for our parents and other grownups, but we certainly would if we could. Just wait a couple of years and see if we don't. Signed, Disgusted "Youth." |
