Nebraska advertiser., 1880-12-23
A BOSTON BABY SHOW.
A Fine Display OF Good Looking Ba-
bies--The Object OF the show.


hall, under the management of Mr..
Frederick Kyle, and, to Judge of the
crowd in attendance, the class of ladies
who exhibit their precious little ones
and the little ones themselves, the af-
fair promises to be a most successful
one. On the printed list there are 225
entries, but during yesterday forenoon
30 more entries were made, making 2S0
in all. The children, as they were
brought in, were examined by DIR. John
DiNweli and his assistants, and for
time there was great rush of mothers
with their arms loaded with the little
cherubs of humanity, some laughing at
she strange sights and sounds, while
others made the air vocal with their
SqUalling, though, on the whole, con-
sidering the great number of children
present, the noise was not great, and
this altogether confined to the upper
hall, in one of the ante-rOOmS i'm which
the examinations by the doctors were
made. In the lower hall, where the ex-
hibition is held, the babies who were
noisy Were soon quieted down, and
everything went on swimmingly. One
thing was noticeable, and that was the
generally evident responsibility of the
ladies who brought their children for
exhibition. The children, too, nearly
all bore evidence of good care and in
telligent treatment, and all were clean
ly,neatly, and some very richly dressed.
After the preliminary examinations by
the physicians, and all had been pro-
vided with seats in the lower hall, the
stream of visitors began to increase in
volume Ladies, of course, predomi-
mated, but there was quite large at
tendance of gentlemen also.
There were three classes of infants,
known as A, b, and special. Glass A is
for children between two and nine
months; class b, for children between
10 months and years. In the special
class were several notable characters.
Among them was Lillian p. Snow, call
ed 1.-THE professional baby" having
taken part in the play of Hearts of
Oak as 1.-The sumner" for four weeks,
at the Boston theatre, and, though pref
ty roughly handled during the play,
never cried. She is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. f. f. Snow. The double
set of twins-two girls, 8 months. and
two bows, 20 mOnthS-Of Mrs c. Han
chett attracted a good share of atten-
ton, rs did also the other twins exhib-
tied. They we're all exceptionally fine
children. One of the proudest men in
the hall was Mr.. f. n. Walton, editor
of the Salem Register, as he marched
around with his twin babies-a boy and
were pair of ''wee Ones" their COM
bined weight being but five pounds.
There We're also cOlored tripletS, and
three or four very pretty colOred chill
dren. Mr.. Kyle, the manager, was en-
countered. when the following CONVEX
satiOn occurred, substantially as given
below:
Your baby show, Mr. Kyle, is the
most promising one we have ever had
in Boston,
Thank you. My aim has been to
make it
FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT.
The ladies who have brought their in
fantS are all, as You see, nice looking
class of people. My object in this baby
show extends beyond the mere purpose
of making it paying affair, though of
course, that is one purpose, and, 10 me,
an important one. have noted that in
this country the tendency, especially
among the native population, is too
much in the direction of what appears
to be imperfect physical development of
children, though | will admit that such
Il lack is incident to city life everywhere,
more or less. Now. the time to build
up the frames of children is when they
are nursing infants. We have under
sized persons because the necessary
mineral matter to build up the frame
was not given them when the bones were
in process of rapid growth. 1t may be
said that we take our size from our pa
rents, but this is not always true. The
children of low sized parents, reared in
limestone districts, grow into men of
large frames. Then, again. we are Oft
en- told that our climate has a tendency
to make people lean and scraggy. This
is evidently not so, for we have now
plenty of men and women born here
who are stout, fleshy and rugged, like
the English and German people from
whom they are descended. We are
aware that, through want of knowing
better. infants are kept in close and bad
" ventilated rooms, when they should
have an abundance of the purest air all
the time. When mothers learn that pure
air is one-half. and a most necessary
half. Of children's food, they will not
grudge them all Of it their little lungs
can consume. Then children are not
properly fed and cared for, though these
and other lacks are the result Of alice
ton rather than neglect. A child should
have food Astounding in phOsphates and
albuminOus matter instead of starchy
matter The former builds up the frame,
the muscles and the nerves. The starch
food is heat-giying, but has very little
nutrition in it. and is generally a cause
of great distress to the children who are
fed upon it, by turning sour on their
stomach and superinducing flatulency
and Indigestion. Ny object, then, is not
only TO
AID MOTHERS IN CARING FOR THEIR
CHILDREN
properly, but to impress upon them the
absolute necessity of understanding how
TO treat them so that they shall be
healthy and strong; SO that there will
be no handy legs, weak spines, or deli
cate and sickly constitutions. To aid
me in this, have retained the services
of DIR. Dixwell, and Of fifty-fOur of our
leading b ,stOn physicians, who will visit
our show daily, and give the mothers
good, practical advice in regard to the
food and clothing and general treatment
of their infants. They will tell them
that tight bandaging is wrong, and that
ii is better 10 run the risk OF a child
catching cold by a 'draught' of pure air
than to have it starved and its blood dis
eaSed by foul, dcvitalized air, etc. /
trust YOU see my purpose, for it IS OF
more general Importance to the rising
generation 70 have these things properly
than who shall be our next
president