Baby Carriages And Baby Killers

The Providence Journal says : " ïho timo has come for the inevitable baby oarriage. A generation ago these things tok little moro tban baskets sorewed on to axlcs without springs. Then carne a protest, originally from physieians, against tnmdliugthe litt-lo or.es over 'tho paveraonts iu vans ivhich would rack the bocee and addle the brnins of the tongiiest-maii; Out of this disenssion the modern baby eaiTiage vrns evoived, and, ae at first consiruetód, was provided with real springs, and, if used with ordioary care, did not ( ndauger life. Gradually the springs liave given way to rigid strips of iron, imiating springs, leaviug the oniTinge aa unfit and dangorons aB a ivheelb&rrow for the delicate mission of trftcspjrting an infaut over rough crossings and along the average sidewalk. The baby's tissues will not bear much jolüng. lts brain is gelatinous, and even its bones soft. Nature has mado its bed in the raother's nrms and on the mothei's breast. Xo chango this for a epringless cart is nlmost mnrdei-. Let nuy man or woman try riding a short distance, on the smoothest road, in a wagon without aprings. The jar will be fouud fatiguing and soon become painful Thp intervention of a cnshion or a pillow doos not ease it muoh. If any jnrent wishes to get a baby earriagc for a child wbose life is worth insnring, let him or her biiy none in which tb body pressed by the liand does not rise and íall ea.-ily on its spriugo."