The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-28
TO KEEP BABY WELL
Have Things Warm While Bathing
1t, and Wrap 1t Up When
1t Goes Out.

L IGIG 10 ObC ~ ~ oH
one at the Astors' and IN in the Van
derbilt family and the young doctor
has one, and the empress of some
| where or other. and the folks in the
next house. The baby baskets are
different-very-but the babies are
the same, and want precisely the same
kinds of care. For of all things to
take the bloom off happiness and COM
fort, the worst is a sick baby. IL isn't
ALWAYS practicable to cure, and it is a
great deal easier to keep it well pro-
vided yon start fair from the Degln-
ming.
NV first lesson, when Peter Smalfry
was the mature age of three weeks,
was given by a kindly neighbor who
was looking on with hungry eyes at
the sight of seeing that baby washed.
II lost my baby by his taking cold
from the crack in the door when he
had his bath" The lesson was taken
to heart. Peter Smalfry had plenty
of air, exercise and change, but l don't
remember his ever having snu file or
so much as sneezing half 4 dozen
times in his first three years. when
he took his daily bath the o was
warm, thoroughly warm; the water
was warm as tender skin or a little
warmer, and every article, towels,
hannels and frocks, hung close to the
stove to heat through.
The child never cried or shrank
from his bath. one warm soft towel
was folded round him to lift him out
of the water, he was laid on a warm
folded sheet and towel laid across my
lap, and another large and warm was
laid right over him as the partly Wet
one was slipped off. The clothes all
went on warm as a mems preasI
feathers. Thep were not held out at
arms length to the fire as wanted and
half cooled in drawing them BACK.
They hung as near the heater as they
could without scorching, for ten MIN
utes, and it must have been a luxury
for that clean baby to get into ms
fresh, soft warm, garments again. he
seemed to feel it so, for he was deilc-
iously good humored and lively after
dressing.
When he went out all his wrappings
were warm, and a warm soapstone or
other heater was placed in the car
riage under the rug he lay on. His
small paws were all m%ittened, his coat
was furred | believe in four rugs and
trimmings for babies. they are so
snug and warm. Indoors a wadded
Quilt to play on and frequent warm
ings and rocking in his mothers arms
kept him summary warm. He throve.
he grew, there never was a more
thriving baby, or one that had fewer
of the disabilities which cripple hap
piness. 1t was some care TO look after
his comfort, but it was worlds less
than caring for q sick baby through
one weeks illness.
You need not be afraid of giving
the little thing plenty OF fresh air to
breathe, by ventilation or taking 1t
out in good weather, but it must be
kent so warm that its blood never
chills. never be placed in the line be-
tween two doors or windows, even II
closed. or held many minutes near a
window or far from a heater. Babies
are tender, they feel cold in air posi-
lively comfortable to us, and the air
next a window is always ten to twenty
degrees colder than that near the
source of heat. A baby needs to be
kept as warm as if brooded under a
hens feathers. That is the only COM
harrison that comes near the truth
shirley Dare in Philadelphia In
Quise7.
Love of Children.
The fact that so many of US, like
Mr.. Wegg, decline and fall pretty
steadily through life, tells for pessim-
ism, but it is still overbalanced by the
optimistic sign given us in the spirit
uaI height from which some OF us
start: and this sign is none the less
impressive for being SO mysterious. l
do not allow myself to be cast down
because these angel faces are often
borne by babies who need spanking
much oftener than they are likely to
get it, for there is a great deal in the
richest ore besides gold; but it is sad
" depressing to see so many children
who give little sign of a birthright OF
race. writes Viola Roseboro in the
Century. How can any. one declare
he adores them in the lump, after the
sentimental manner, when the very
infant in arms so often shows a
soul-sickening, self-evident likeness
to an aggressive, stupid father, or u
sharp, vulgar little fool of n mother?
Still / believe the case is not SO bad as
it looks to the casual but sensitive OBJ
server. A wise woman tells Inc that is
not the sheer faulty OF folly that en-
chants people with the most unpre-
possessing young one when ithappens
to be their own, but that truly it is
only it's own family who can really
know a baby's charms, and it is her
belief that if we could have all the evil
| dence before us in even the most In
| accountable case, we should see that
the worshippers were wiser than the
| soothing world.
We all know that the tiresomest
| brat can present wonderfully appeal
ing aspects-say when only the little
| back is seen and its sleepy wee head
| has fallen trustfnlly on a grown-up
shoulder. Science may account for
| the pull the sight makes on your heart
| strings, but in some way, after you
have duly informed yourself as to the
! evolution of the emotions, it is still apt
in experience, like childhood's on gaze.
to carry tidings to your deeper, per-
haps all but unconscious, self of prec-
ious undiscovered possessions and kin
| ships in the universal sources.
A Fire In he bedroom.
The inhabitants of southern Europe
clothe themselves very warmly in
winter time, and do not light a fire
unless the necessity for it is very