Hon. Mrs Bushel told me this with intense accuracy peculiar to statistics.
“You speak reverently about sterilised milk,” I pronounce. “How do you make this youthful beveridge?”
“This milk are best science for all baby,” she report. “You put him in clean kettle & boil him to scalding point—”
“Boil Baby to scalding point?” I screech with shocks.
“No!! Boil milk,” she otter.
Which show what difficult housekeeping babies can be.
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Mr Editor, one important rule I notice about babies—you must not never give them nothing that they want. This Hon. Bushel Baby are continuously poking forth sweet hands and making considerable blueness from his eyes to show his undesirable whims & requisitions. One time I was approaching steps with 100-lb ice-chunk for kitchen. Hon. Baby seen this and order some by making finger-signals. How could I disobey this toy boss? So I split off slight fracture of ice & was attempting to make present of this to him when—O scream! Mrs Boss came flewing outward and seen what was.
“Stop!” she holla. “You wish refrigerate that darling interior?”