1800s Advice and Etiquette for Ladies
Children rejoice in noise. They appear to take a pleasure, both in noise itself and in the act of making it that is perfectly unintelligible to grown-up people. "Why do fathers and mothers always keep saying 'hush'?" a bright healthy boy asked the other day, and he was evidently much puzzled that we should fail to appreciate what was to him a source of unlimited satisfaction.
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
Children rejoice in noise. They appear to take a pleasure, both in noise itself and in the act of making it that is perfectly unintelligible to grown-up people. "Why do fathers and mothers always keep saying 'hush'?" a bright healthy boy asked the other day, and he was evidently much puzzled that we should fail to appreciate what was to him a source of unlimited satisfaction.
Advice for Ladies - The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, December 25, 1885
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