You can feed the baby for the cost of one or two cocktails daily.
Your health will improve if you give up the cocktails, and watch
the effect of their substitute, milk, on the little child.
When you get up in the morning, if the hour is early, you will
find the old woman giving the baby its bath. The poor, little
thin thing will wriggle joyously in the warm water, once it gets
used to the daily bathing. Its head will be soaped first, then
sponged. It will be dried with a warm towel, and you can hit the
tin bathtub with your keys to keep it from crying while its
clothes are put on.
Hold the baby for a while each morning, letting its head rest on
your shoulder that its neck may not be strained. (This will give
the nurse a chance to prepare the bottle that follows the bath.)
It will get used to you after a few mornings. The first time it
shows affection for you, you will be the proudest man in your
office.
If asked to take a cocktail you will say:
"No, thank you. My cocktail money is spent to make a thin baby
fat."
If others boast of their friends, you will know that YOU have a
friend whom money cannot influence, one skinny little admirer at
home whose affection is genuine.
If a man shows delight in the love of his dog, you will say to
yourself:
"Any dog will like any man.
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