Hide Article Text (OCR)
rac-neseInfants Under Year Old Enjoy Christmas Gifts, Baby ClaimsOf course we babies can enjoy Christmas gifts”Dear World:i insheit.es;tndTS,outlayaba-s—iraed,)d-ID-5X4aylmro-ng:mOf 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 we can’t appreciate them anyway. The ideal A lot of other babies are also complaining 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 foroo.asdev-au-erulir-u-o-)diaidn-3SyPhoey! 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 themselves capable of enjoying Chi*istmas.Exactly 987 of the 1,000 babies 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 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 proof that babies enjoy Christmas, 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: Wewant toys that will attract our attention, and they must be cleaned easily. We babies have a bad habit of putting things in our mouths, soif the toy is too small, we might swallow it. Don’t worry, though. We’ll 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, 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 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 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”“I Man couL foun and TheSant just thin!As thing the 1ory iGosuitfcoursPhyLgivinJoeshoe*diedrountwind;“C: We’v the tlt;knowwindarm. And and t ry! I day i feel, drivii ten \ fine!’
Newspaper Details
Buffalo Center Tribune
Buffalo Center, Iowa, US
Wed, Dec 24, 1941
Page 11
Full Page
Clipped by
Paul E.
NA, 07 Apr 2019
Other Publications Near Buffalo Center, Iowa
Buffalo Center Tribune
Buffalo Center Globe
