The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-02-20
Babies and Their Belongings

Happening to visit lady who was in bliss
full possession of her first baby, she begged me
to tell her where she could find corset for the
infant, or even pattern to make one She re-
membered that her own baby brothers and sis
ters were enclosed in such article, but she
remembered its peculiarities of form only in
that vague way which ladies who are born to
idleness are likely to recollect. "Did you wear
a corset when you were baby?' we inquired.
"Certainly. Don't you see how slight | am"
We have observed it. Indeed, we have often
perplexed our brains about this lady's figure
She was six feet and one inch in height, and
as slight and graceful as willow and just
about as frail. The corset Explained it. Doubt
less there was so much material to dispose of
somehow, and it was forced to be oblong. as the
corset refused to give it room to spread ITSELF
Now this idea may not be scientific, but facts
are facts. My friend who was remarkably
beautiful, very lovely in all womanly ways
and as accomplished and cultivated as the best
masters, and close and continuous corsets per-
mitted, did hot live to the birth of her sec
ond baby. Her chest was too narrow, and she
died, as many other people do, speedily and
almest painlessly, Of decayed lungs. Could
she have found the infants corset pattern, her
baby would have followed her very soon. Of
course, baby must wear smooth, unhemmed
flannel bandage above its abdomen for a month,
but after that should trust to its muscles.
Dress it in soft, white flannel next to its per-
son. Keep III III warm lOoSc uu9 uo hO1
permit the room to be over-heated, or the air
to be unchanged less than three times day,
and yet never permit it to be exposed to a draft.
Never remove it from the nursery without lift
ing the window, SO that pure oxygen may await
its return. Clothe its feet and legs with warm,
long stockings. but do not retain the long dress
es an hour after its feet become active, and the
child indicates its desire for exercise. The
msshappen legs that are SO frequently seen
upon boys, and the ungraceful carriage OF
many girls and women, may be traced to that
vanity of the mothers which kept long, uD
rumpled white dress upon the baby until it was
| eight or ten months old. Of course, all the life
| that an infant possesses is manifested by mo-
ton and appetite, and one is of as vital conse
quence as the other. Many mothers never
| permit scream to issue from the babys mouth,
even when, perhaps, the noise only means
cry for air in its lungs, but they pass more food
into its stomach, to invite collie, which does not.
| as general thing, refuse the invitation.
| wise mother knows that ba be cannot generate
warmth as rapidly as an Older person, and she
dresses it accordingly. tender mother is
| likely to furnish toe much animal warmth, by
over much caressing, and, if she be not healthy,
| she is likely to vitiate the atmosphere that it
breathes No one should sleep with babe
| 1t is not wholesome for either party, and the
rest of the child is broken by the nervous stir
| of the mother, or else she remains 80 quiet that
| she fails of proper rest, and the neurishment
given to the babe is not likely to agree with its
| sensitive digestive organs. baby should al
ways sleep in crib by its mothers side.-7he
Metropolitan.