The morning news., 1891-01-25
SUlATHS FOR BABIES.
THEY LATEST FAD FOR THE
TOCRATIC NURSERY.

Pr(SlNS NUSSTy-aeSII1 as Sde
is ped According to the Newest
WA Starter for 1891.
rom the Brooklga Times.
Them woman outs on frock with
a lon waist ED huge irregular sleeve
suffsaing own to her elbows and up to
her enA straight narrow skirt that
straiross her hips and clings about her
ankid lies in a quaint fan-like fare on
the Then she assumes a high-shoul-
6eree that ia all collar and fringe of
furrs, and a fat morsel ofss..a bonnet
1iltelly forward, and with two little
vely0rns like those attributed to Bac-
ehuscking out in front of her hair. So
at4iThe picks up q carriage muff big
enogo look for all the world like huge
kitbins long stemmed rose on top of
il. aefore she goes out, to hold the fad
balasven, strips all clothing of every
descon off her wee boys and girls. She
saysdoes it to give them freedom of
finishes a deliciously humorous indi-
vidI
Hthis new health notion originated
Shero telling. Some women take to it,
as tdo to Buddhism and did to the mind
currom intense conviction. Others
adoE because their thoughts hang sus-
pendlke-
The swan's-down feather,
stands upon the swell at full of tide,
neither way inciines.
. LII ~,
not pitch on syphus fever because it
cbaS TO be fashionable in London. You
couleally imagine them yearning, like
Rutd Kipling's soldiers, to ''die decently
in II beds of zynotic disease" il SO 20
do cared at the moment to be the proper
thin
11toddling and trotting Of well-born
bebin pink and white nakedness hiss a
stroclaim as the Grst accredited fad Of
1S9Irhe little victims are not allowed as
vet side their own apartments, and per~
hapshen one considers how many whims
wiilld and bloom and die before warm
wear, it is assuming too much TO imagine
thanis especial flower of fancy will not
bluslnseen and waste its sweetness on the
nurT air And yet it may live TO reach
the Vements; who can tell? 1t is supposed
to obtpeouliarly inVigorating and strength
eninproceSs, making the babies, like the
Indi who is credited with the famous re-
ply the story, ''all face" and giving them
an siable roundness and shapeliness of
limb Its efficacy in this respect depends
Jsrtslarly on the abjuration of shoes and
stochgs. There is a system Of sun baths
ccnnted with 1t. and which, indeed, may
be rerded as its foundation stone.
Ph infants are being brought up in
d
the pOlic throdgh the medium OF "break-
fastsand 11nches A whim that cannot
in soe gay be aired does not fulfil the
first Ghdition of whim, and so 1t chances
that ards are beginning TO 60 futtering
&boudn certain circles, which bear, or bore
IN ontinstance, in the corner where one
woulonaturaily expect, "To meet Mrs. 80
and S,n the mysterious inscription. ITO be
gresen ct the sun bath Of Moasieurs les
Bsbes'
The Breakfast to which allusion Il made
was prooably the most elaborate that has
been eivn. The ten ladies who were bid
len sat about table which differed In few
particular from the dainty courses which
nodish women pride themselves on serving,
ave that the low crystal bowl which held
erlA held also scores and f3fties Of the
tIange baby orchids u At each plate lay
I small faintlyfragrant table sachetn done
up ih satin painted with baby cupids, and
nto the neck of ID was thrust cluster Of
'he weird orchids holding out in view their
iny white infants. Just as tho fruit was
erved the door opened. and there appeared
N the threshold twin lads probably under
, who wore short black velvet skirts and
its Of round velvet jackets with great
lutfs Of fllmy white lawn seeming to bridge
he gap between. The urchins had brown
urls aud peculiarly bright brown eyes, and
S they oircled about the table they paused
minute with grave shyness by each guest
turn TO lisp quaint and broken phrases
ot without evidences of previous discipline
OF baby greeting. When this odd little
'erman ceremony, giving nowadays the
list touch OF smartness, was finished, Mon
'euTS les bebes disappeared, and curiosity
oss In cresceH6o until the hostess left her
sat and calmly, aud yet as one on the
rink Of great coup, invited the little pro-
ession to follow her to the nursery.
The big, sunny room. papered in pink and
White with scenes from "Alice in Wonder
and had for occupants a cracking Ere
no two puffy pink cushions lying In front
u the great bay window. To these there
ntered, after a minutes pause, during
Vhlch one observed the stage setting of toy
baby chairs and few
ound plnk-enameled tablets and white fur
ugs and water color sketches Of rosy faces,
Fsmed in pink and gold-two white-capped
'ho eproned nurses, who advanced with
'Veh pace and laid upon the cushions In the
uIi mood of sunshine-Monsieurs les bebes.
RINGER against the pink background
,lcKed and wrggled two little human balls,
'uclao except for tissue paper caps that
DteTnH fhn HnaSxy hAa IL IL l.L
yes. There was gasp and a gurgle from
very mothers daughter as four fat fsts and
cur a, heels wildly waved.
"Nannette and Marie,n said the hostess.
you may 60 on."
Nannette and Marie knelt by the pink
realms and rubbed them and rolled them
no pinched taem and made them scarlet
'itn .sn laughter and massage.
.,TVtt .,NTVannette and Marie, are they warmg''
Yes, madame"
~, Archie and Reggie, no with youI''
Als twlns struggled to their feet and
log! IGGOa! tuoby, toddling youths, obedient,
~ -rSannette and Marie, start the balll"
tne TWO nurses produced a small black
u1oer football and threw it to the two
q. sums, who understood the programme,
% 6a presently they sent 1t bobbing against
nqnhdg o Ie,lihg. They kicked 1t and tossed it and
noat ,uaoed over it. all the time preserving the
ias1, Ssoncal eomical gravity Of deneanor. Since
ha,, hnaetts and Marie had taken hands off
1at .SS suey had not smiled.
rcS;U annette and Marie, the measures:
,ta-ds h sIIs and Reggie, how well can you
iIvas nurses brought out two oak and
IN ~ SUCKS, and the twins solemnly walked
,er,ro, w seem, touching to the impoverished
he pEt;Glouiacs t;n their noses, their chests and
tor,oIp Ipe Of their toes. Their round
9n-aons t1eY drew rAsnIl,taIv in Than In