Quote #1589 about 17th century by Alice Morse Earle
"The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies."by Alice Morse Earle
Categories: 17th century
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