Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-25
the Clover house" is usually allowed to in
dulgein a quiet merry-making

the Clover house" is usually allowed to in
dulgein a quiet merry-nahing
AT MILoRD's UNGRUDGED EXPENSE.
Another matter of the gravest import has
had to be arranged. Titled ladies never
nurse their own children. The woman who
is to be the real mother OF the helpless
lordiings for the first twelve to eighteen
months of its babyhood career. is often the
subject of extraordinary and anxious search.
Her character must be blameless, yet she
must be situated so that for this length of
time she can forswear her own babe and
home. These, and other supposititiouSly
Necessary conditions. are not easily salts
led: and perhaps some of the most enter
tanning and curiously worded advertise
megtS found in the columns Of the British
press are resultant from these peculiar
quests. No other person in any capacity of
household service commands such wages as
do these women when they have been found.
They never receive less than 500 per
month. and often from $3.50 to $500 is paid.
This nurse is always provided with two or
more under-nuTses. With her precious
charge she is not consigned to the regular
nursery of the castle, which is always
capaciOuS apartment well removed from
those of the chief inmates, but is provided
with q room or suite of rooms, which in ordi-
Eary use are guests chambers. not far dis
tant from milady's boudoir. This provision
- Al l.IlluDEul tIcp Oilu lIlc llIlit lofu DI
lady's surroundings are for the time being
Of the plainest character. The customary
furniture IS removed and packed away. A
plain cot, perhaps a sofa, 4 swinging cradle,
CHAIR or two, the biiouterie OF babyhOOd
necessities only, and in an open CRATE a tiny
coal fire, which is never permitted to go
out IN winter or summer, are all that the
titled baby's eyes may look upon during its
first year or two Of life. Its nurse-mother
may occupy the same room. Usually she is
given an adjoining apartment.
The first real event in the babes career
is its christening OF ''churching,i as the
servants, surrounding dependents and vii
layers persist in calling it; and its robes
for this occasion are marveis of the needle
workers art. Christening always occurs
between the ages of six weeks and three
months. British conservatism and form
attach i double importance TO the event.
The child is thus authoritatively signed,
sealed and delivered over to the ranks of
the rock-rooted nobility: and its titled
mother is officially permitted TO resume her
place in noble society Attached TO nearly
every castle or manOral hall is a private
chapel or more frequently the ancient par
iSh church. the Giving of which is nearly
always i'll the gift of the lord of the manor.
ChriSteningS among the nobility are inyari-
ably celebrated III these, and privately.
Possibly the parish registrar may be pres
ent. Occasionally near relatives and close
friends are invited. These and the inme-
diaJe household servants are the only at
PENDANTS. But the incumbent of the living,
though ne may be assisted by noted canon
or prclate,
ALWAYS PERFORMS THE OFFICE.
a christening dinner follows, and while of
Z most exclusive character il is always an
expensive and superb feast, the clergyman
OF priest who has OBLIGATED being the guest
of honor. The affair IS also one of consid-
cradle expense to near relatives and friends.
II IS the chief occasion between birth and
marriage for the bestowal Of gifts. Many
of these are IN the form OF toys and objects
ri pastime ranging from what might amuse
the tiuiest babe to articles which nave in
-terest even 10 grown up boys and girls. and
these are often toys of marvellous construc-
tioa and workmanship; while other gifts
take the form OF properties ana jewels.
From the moment of christening the
babe, which has received not only its
Christian names but its title often tumble
OF family and property appellatiyes as out
lapdiSh as long, is never addressed by
parent or servant in any other manner than
by its title Its parents may occasionally so
far forget themselves as TO apply some ten
der nickname or loye-word 10 the child:
but this could only occur in moments of
great secrecy and weakness. It is spoken
OF 10 al! friends and servants in the third
person, as Lady Helen" or Lord
Arthur" the epithet of nobility being pre-
liked TO the child's Christian name.
Its distinct title is applied only after
the death of the person from whom such
title descends, formally in necessary
legal instruments, or when its age of ma
jority is attained. Eldest sons carry their
titles from the date of christening. To il
luStrate take the house OF Manchester. The
eldest son of the late duke was LORD will
lam George Victor Drego) Vaudeville. He
was Lord Vaudeville from christening. He
is the present Duke Of Manchester. His
younger brother, Lord Charles Montague,
was always Lord Charles simply, in
childhood and minority. The only sou of
the present Duke of Manchester is Lord
NNilliam George Kimbo!ton. The lad is
therefore now Lord Mandeville"-
successor to the dukedom. IL is perhaps
rreyerent to imagine these little tots as
other than beings superior 10 the ills of
flesh. under such aristocratic conditions;
but Lady Helen" has wind on her little
stomach and Lord Arthur has TO run the
gauntlet OF paregoric and rash, precisely as
with your child or mine.
At about years age the nurse-mother is
relieved. Perhaps for another year special
child. At from two TO three years of age it
Is transferred to the household nursery, al
though the special nurses may be somewhat
longer retained. This nursery is always a
most spacious apartment. Connected with
il or leading into it from an adjoining hall
are dozen or more pleasant little rooms
, where older children sleep, sometimes with
4 nurse in each side room, and for nurses,
the governeSS and her assistants. The
principal room of the nursery is not only a
fantastic museum of everything conceiv-
able with which to amuse children, but it is
also their library. music-room, study,
dining-room. play-room in unpleasant
weather, and the sitting-room and prison
room Of
MILApY's PROFESSIONAL GovERSEss.
This individual is expected to educate and
form the manners and morals of the chill
6ren. Of the girls to the age Of twelve, and