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A VOCABULARY 
 
 FOR 
 
 YOUNG FATHERS 
 
 BY 
 
 O. N. E. 
 
 [Compounded and compiled after the most careful researches into 
 
 the psychology governing the telepathic interpretation 
 
 of infantile intelligence.] 
 
 Illustrations from life by 
 
 ESTHER P. HILL 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
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Copyright, 1908, by Dodge Publishing Co. 
 [VOCABULARY 6] 
 
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A VOCABULARY FOR 
 YOUNG FATHERS 
 
 IT has often occurred to me, and I 
 dare say it has occurred to many 
 other young fathers, that in this age 
 of the making of many books the 
 most crying need has been strangely 
 overlooked. 
 
 Where in the lengthy lists of 
 Books of the Hour", can one find a 
 guide for the illumination of the 
 understanding of mere man as to the 
 meaning of the uncouth and cryptic 
 utterances of his infant offspring? 
 
 Mothers have no need of this 
 
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 assistance. Nature seems to have pro- 
 vided them and indeed, grand- 
 mothers, aunts, nurses and other 
 females, as well with an instructive 
 bibliography on this subject, by which 
 they interpret fearlessly and instan- 
 taneously the gummy outpourings of 
 infantile intelligence. 
 
 Feeling that light on this re- 
 condite subject will be widely appre- 
 ciated and that its popularity will at 
 once place it at the head of the " Six 
 Best Sellers," the author has under- 
 taken to compile a number of the 
 simpler and more common phrases 
 and their meanings ; and cheerfully 
 dedicates this effort to the inexperi- 
 enced of his kind. 
 
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A p FOB 
 
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 GOO. This is usually the first 
 word attempted and the meaning de- 
 pends largely upon the inflection, the 
 time uttered and the persons present. 
 (a) If delivered with a smile and a 
 gurgling accent after eating, is an ex- 
 pression ^{content. (b) Attended by 
 persistent closing of eyelids denotes a 
 desire for slumber, (c) If accent seems 
 dry and throaty, with note of impa- 
 tience, denotes hunger. (Fathers who 
 are left in charge should note the in- 
 flection carefully, as an upward 
 choking inflection, accompanied 
 by a strained look about the eyes, 
 invariably indicates a desire to 
 relieve an overcharged meal ticket. 
 Inattention to this shade of meaning 
 
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 results in the purchase of a new suit.) 
 Must not be confounded with 
 
 AH-GOO, which is strictly a 
 word of greeting and bestowed ex- 
 clusively on mothers, grandmothers, 
 aunts, nurses and other females. 
 
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 MA-MA. This is also one of 
 the first words used and is considered 
 a sign of most remarkable intelli- 
 gence, (a) Usually a term of endear- 
 ment) applied to mother, grand- 
 mother, aunt, nurse or other females. 
 (b) Sometimes indicates contentment, 
 pleasure, hunger or physical discom- 
 fort. 
 
 Must not be confounded with 
 
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 DA-DA, which is confined to a 
 form of greeting to father, to dogs or 
 to the nursing bottle. 
 
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 BOO. Girl babies usually add 
 this word early to their vocabulary. 
 (a) It means boy. (b) When uttered 
 by a boy baby is interpreted as "bow- 
 wow," or dog. Used by both sexes 
 to ask for bread^ nursing bottle or 
 baby buggy^ to express appreciation of 
 the beautiful and to indicate the pre- 
 sence of a pain. (c) It is also inter- 
 preted, when uttered with a playful 
 inflection, to mean a desire to engage 
 in game with father ; as alternately 
 raising and lowering newspaper and 
 repeating the word with sportive or 
 pretended force. (d) This word 
 also means book if the child's eyes or 
 hands rest in the near or even remote 
 vicinity of a volume. 
 
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 BY-BY. This phrase is one of 
 the most widely comprehensive in the 
 whole infant vocabulary. Its mean- 
 ing depends entirely upon surround- 
 ing circumstances. (a) It sometimes 
 means a desire to walk, to ride^ to 
 accompany a visitor home, to don a 
 cap and coat, to go to sleep^ or to 
 drag a small cart by a string. Even 
 mothers^ grandmothers, aunts, nurses 
 and other females sometimes find 
 difficulty in determining the meaning 
 of this utterance, (b) Accompanied 
 by waving of hands means fare- 
 well." (c) Sometimes the whole 
 range of definitions is tried without 
 satisfying the infant, thus proving that 
 
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 this term is not yet clearly under- 
 stood in its entirety. 
 
 BAY-BAY. Baby, Biscuit. Where 
 the child is allowed to suck a strip of 
 bacon attached to cord around its 
 neck, indicates a desire for the tid-bit. 
 
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 NAN-NAN. May mean grand- 
 mother^ aunt y nurse or any female ex- 
 cept mother. 
 
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 WAW-WAW. Water. Usually 
 a nocturnal expression, seeming to be 
 especially suited to the hours of three 
 to five A. M. This night-thirst is one 
 of the most mysterious demands of 
 complex nature and has been the 
 subject of much discussion, the con- 
 census of opinion among fathers 
 many of them eminent scientific 
 authorities - - regarding it as a mere 
 habit, while mothers, grandmothers, 
 aunts, nurses and other females invar- 
 iably insist that it is a firmly-fixed 
 principle of child nature, which it would 
 be cruel to eradicate by disciplinary 
 methods. It may be well to note that 
 it is advisable, when complying with 
 request for drink, to maintain strict 
 
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A p FOB 
 
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 watch on cup and contents, as a few 
 drops on infant's person at this time 
 results, with startling quickness, in a 
 croupy cough. 
 
 Often confounded with 
 
 WAW, which is a convivial form 
 of greeting, conforming to our "hello/' 
 
 Must not be confounded with 
 
 WOW, which expresses pain, 
 surprise, remorse or disgust, according 
 to emphasis or inflection. 
 
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 PIT-TEE. The acquirement of 
 this word marks an advance in brain 
 power and cunning. It is usually 
 pronounced with a guileless look and 
 an expression of gleeful enthusiasm, 
 the hands outstretched confidingly 
 toward some cherished but fragile ob- 
 ject of art. If allowed to grasp the 
 article, the infant gazes upon it for one 
 fleeting moment then swiftly dashes 
 it to the floor and as earnestly as 
 before requests something else. 
 
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A p FOB 
 
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 UNH-UNH. This expression has 
 two distinct significations. (a) If 
 uttered while in charge of mother, 
 grandmother, aunt, nurse or other 
 female denotes a wish to partake of 
 a repast, but (b) if in father's care that 
 said parent's thumbs, elbows, knees, 
 coat-buttons or other appurtenances 
 are in too close proximity to certain 
 portions of infant anatomy peculiarly 
 susceptible to such pressure. Young 
 fathers are exhorted to exercise par- 
 ticular watchfulness in this regard, as 
 carelessness, or ignorance, results in 
 bruises, welts, contusions, which, while 
 invisible to masculine eyes, are pro- 
 nounced by mothers, grandmothers, 
 
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 aunts, nurses or other females to be 
 the greatest torture to the tender in- 
 fant constitution. 
 
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 POO. Does not, as some may 
 suppose, indicate contempt or impa- 
 tience. Is a request for spoon or 
 other article, which, if pounded inside 
 of crib or chair, will produce noise. 
 Is frequently uttered at night, im- 
 mediately after requests for water and 
 food have been complied with. There 
 is no rule known to fathers for the 
 controlling of the granting or refusing 
 of this demand. Mothers, grand- 
 mothers, aunts, nurses and other 
 females hold a special sitting of court 
 each time, weighing actuating motives, 
 mitigating circumstances, probable 
 consequences and similar considera- 
 tions, generally giving verdict in favor 
 of compliance. 
 
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 BLUB-BLUB. One of the most 
 striking phrases in the infantile vocab- 
 ulary. Is accompanied by blowing 
 of small bubbles between lips and 
 is instantaneously followed by violent 
 ejections of the food last partaken of. 
 So far as is known, no father has yet 
 been able to interpret the bubbling 
 phenomenon quickly enough to avoid 
 disaster to clothes, carpets, curtains 
 and furniture within a radius of six 
 feet, but it is hoped that a close study 
 and faithful application of the defini- 
 tions here set forth will lead to ultimate 
 dexterity in the interpretation of this 
 call. In this connection it may be 
 noted, as an instance of sex superiority, 
 that mothers, grandmothers, aunts, 
 
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 nurses and other females find 
 difficulty in diverting the aforemen- 
 tioned outpouring into safe channels. 
 
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A p FOB 
 
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 YUM. The first hearing of this 
 word by inexperienced fathers is apt 
 to recall tender sentiments of the days 
 of ardent courtship, but further 
 observation will develop the fact that 
 this word, as an infanticism, is merely 
 an expression of animal satisfaction, 
 and ordinarily follows the relinquish- 
 ing of a semi-yielding substance, as a 
 rubber nipple. This sound resembles 
 the pop of a puckered rose leaf on 
 the forehead. 
 
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A p FOB 
 
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 BED or BET. Usually uttered 
 in an imperative tone and reiterated, 
 with increasing emphasis, until after 
 a trial of every bed in the house, 
 ringing all the bells, collecting all the 
 belts, and finding none of these suc- 
 cessful in reducing the violence of 
 the demand, the bread box is acciden- 
 tally stumbled upon. 
 
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 DAM. At the risk of shocking 
 some mothers, grandmothers, aunts, 
 nurses and other females, this word 
 is included in this aid to paternal 
 understanding, owing to its simplicity, 
 it is caught by the infant mind with 
 astonishing ease and retained and used 
 with marvelous faithfulness. It is 
 generally the first word of unadulter- 
 ated, every day form used by a child 
 left much in its father's care. 
 
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 DAM-PA. An alarming word, 
 whose suspiciousness is only allayed 
 by the pointing of finger or other 
 unequivocal corroboratory action in 
 direction of grandfather. 
 
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 It is hoped that the exposition 
 of these few words may shed light on 
 the path of some few young fathers with 
 intelligence and application sufficient 
 to grasp their intricacies. A sub- 
 sequent treatise will discourse of 
 phrase combinations and whole sen- 
 tences, tracing their derivations to 
 archaic and obsolete roots. 
 
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ADDENDA. 
 
 Although this Vocabulary has 
 very nearly covered the range of in- 
 fantile utterances, the young father 
 who has mastered its contents must 
 not suppose himself completely 
 equipped for the proper care of his 
 offspring. There are numberless ex- 
 pressions of countenance, which, to 
 a mere man, seem on the surface to be 
 plain indications of certain mental 
 states, according to the verdict of 
 mothers, grandmothers, aunts, nurses 
 and other females, are mere heiro- 
 glyphics, whose manifest form has no 
 bearing on their spiritual interpreta- 
 tions. 
 
 Two courses are open to fathers 
 
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 who would rank high in domestic 
 training either a long, appreciative 
 study of the symbols under the tutor- 
 ship of one of the aforementioned 
 interpreters, or the committing to 
 memory by rote a few of those rules 
 which operate by the law of opposites. 
 Heading this list is the prolonged 
 wail accompanied by contortions of 
 countenance expressive of the extrem- 
 est anguish of mind or body. As 
 it is difficult for a father to search for 
 pins or the seat of pain in a squirm- 
 ing anatomy, it is a relief to know 
 that neither dandling nor petting is 
 required to relieve this situation. 
 Merely lay aside everything that per- 
 tains or is conducive to personal 
 
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comfort or pleasure and take the 
 child outdoors for a prolonged outing 
 in directions which he will indicate. 
 The air, the dirt, the birds, the 
 neighbors and even strangers are full 
 of interest to the little chap and a 
 few hours of such diversion, unless 
 hunger intervenes, will soothe him 
 into angelic slumber. There are 
 many minor desyllabized requests, 
 such as fretting, crawling into fire- 
 place, overturning work-basket, etc., 
 which are translated by mothers, 
 grandmothers, aunts, nurses and other 
 females as " Bay-bay want to go by-by 
 with Daddy." 
 
 A smacking of lips indulged in 
 during slumber need not be inter- 
 
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 preted as imitative of paternal flirta- 
 tions. Neither need you exert yourself 
 to search the medicine closet merely 
 lift infant and place in close proxim- 
 ity to mother and you will find that, 
 while the sounds seem to increase for 
 a period, they will soon subside into 
 peaceful-long-drawn breathing. 
 
 There is no more appalling 
 ethnicism than complete silence. A 
 calm, serene face, a soul-searching 
 gravity of gaze, unaccompanied by 
 motion of any nature, strike terror to 
 the ordinary understanding. A close 
 comparison of cause and effect, how- 
 ever, will show these to be nothing 
 more than the sign of a full stomach. 
 No attempt has been made to inter- 
 
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pret the continuous and monotonous 
 babbling which even mothers, grand- 
 mothers, aunts, nurses and other 
 females admit to be a mere hereditary 
 potentiality, shadowing the talking 
 
 instinct. 
 
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