592 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



singing. When four or six months old almost all children like to be 

 sung to, and many try to prattle. They please themselves by making 

 a noise. 



Smell. — Children for a long time show no sensibility to good and 

 bad odors. At ten or fifteen months their sense of smell is very lively. 



II. Sensibility : Emotions and Passions. 



Taste. — The emotions connected with taste are for a long time the 

 most lively. 



Fear. — Fear is early manifested. A babe of two months will make 

 a face, cry, and recoil upon the bosom of its nurse, if one sneezes or 

 cries out near it. 



Jealousy and Anger. — A little girl, nearly three months old, would 

 frown, make wry faces, kick, and cry, on seeing another babe on her 

 mother's breast. A little boy, on the second day, when dressed, ges- 

 ticulated in a manner painful to see, and especially when his arms were 

 put in the sleeves. 



Emotions vary with the Objects. — A little child eleven months old 

 was pleased to hold the nursing-bottle, and to eat various foods ; he 

 loved to play ; he showed affection for his parents, and made some dif- 

 ference in this respect between different persons that he liked. He 

 showed aversion for some inanimate objects (hammer syringe) ; for a 

 little black barking dog ; and for the caresses of a neighboring child 

 seven years old, who had played him more than one trick. The organ- 

 ization of children being more feeble than ours, their emotions are 

 short-lived, and things the most disagreeable or painful do not long 

 remain so. 



Animal Symjmthy. — Children love animals, but in a purely egotis- 

 tic fashion. A child six months old, left alone with a turtle, half tore 

 ofiF one of its feet, and when his nurse came was pulling at another with 

 all his might. 



Suman Sympathy. — One child a year old, coming home after a 

 month's absence, paid no attention to a cat and dog that he knew well, 

 but with a smile reached out his arms to an old servant. Children have 

 only a germ of true sympathy. A little child four years old lost one 

 of his dearest companions. The father of the dead boy took him on 

 his knee while sobbing. The child escaped, frisked about for a little, 

 and, coming back to the afflicted father, said, " Now Peter is dead, you 

 will give me his horse and drum, will you not ? " Sometimes more sen- 

 sibility is manifested : a baby of sixteen months would cry to the shed- 

 ding of hot tears on seeing his father take a shower-bath. The same 

 child at the same time was the terror of cats. 



III. Movements (First Period). — The new-born child sneezes. 

 Cries and Tears. — During its first weeks the babe sheds no tears. 



In a child seventy-seven days old rapid and short inspirations ap- 

 proached to sobbing ; in another child of one hundred and thirty-eight 

 days M. Perez observed a distinct sob. 



