The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-11


lust now is, ''Is it fashionable to be mother?"
and it may be most emphatically answered in
the affirmative. The smartest of the young
fashionable women in New York are never so
proud as when they are accompanied in their
drives by handsome baby-prouder and hap
pier if they happen to have twins; and the whole
lot of them were as envous as they could be
when one of their set presented on Christmas Day
to her happy husband two of the sweetest girl
babies you ever saw. And, what is more, these
very fashionable babies are very simply dressed,
but with every thought given to their comfort.
Beautiful fine fabrics used for their little
frocks, but lace and embroidery are counted as
undesirable, though no enc of fine sewing by
hand is permitted.
EDITH KINGDOM A HAPPY MOTHER.
One of the happiest-looking mothers in New
York is Mrs. George Gould, prettier now than
she ever was; and with one Of the handsomest
three -year-old boys she looks as if she was so
glad she was in the world and so glad she had
her boy that it is an absolute delight to watch
her face. At the doll carnival her dolby the
by, it took prize-was dressed exactly as she
does her little boy when he goes out to take the
air. 1t wore long undressed kid leggings, warm
flannel skirt, over it skirt of lawn, silk knitted
shirt, and little gown, beautifully but simply
one with cape to it, and the hat white silk
shirred one that tied down over the little to
keep them warm. The hands were covered with
brown gloves, and a little ermne muff on cord
was swung about the neck so it couldn't be lost
even if it wanted to- Its coat collar was fast
ened with little bar pin on which was engraved,
"Little Jay,'' so Jay, Jr., was duplicated in
doll.
MATERNITY NOT OUT OF FASHION.
Pretty Mrs. Burke Roche is seldom seen IN
the daytime without her little group about her.
the twin boys and the demure little maiden
named Cynthia, while if you go a-visiting down
where the hunting set mostly collect you will
find that in each country house the nursery is
full and that the little people are thought Of
with great pride. 1t has only been among a
vulgar, new rich set of people that it is limited
that maternity is out of fashion. That woman's
life is never quite complete who is not wife
and mother; and, my friend, when you hear
some Young woman laugh and say she wouldn't
be bothered with baby, don't you believe it.
God hasn't seen fit to make her mother, and
the bravado with which she talks is as sorrowful
as il she had put her grief into words. Every
normal woman wants to be mother, and when
size doesn't there is something wrong about her,
something wicked, and she can never be either
good friend or good wife unless she has this
desire. We may only have bread and cheese to
offer, but you know if they spiced with kisses
they have a flavor that the finest sweets, the
richest OF game, and the most delicate fruits do
not possess.
HOW WOMEN CAN KEEP YOUNG
Have you had any instruction in the art OF
keeping yourself young forever? This is the
method: 1t is strongly recommended that every
woman who can will go to bed three days IL
II. IL
and eat as little II she can stand it, glass o.
milk and vichy at morning and night will b,
quite enough for her. If she finds herself faint
an egg beaten up in the milk will soon straighteI
her up. There is no doubt about it that littl
fasting is good thing, and the woman who ha
the courage to do this will work better, liv
longer, and look better than the woman wh'
hasn't the courage 10 seek the secluson of be
bed for three days. Rest and enough of it, !
what the American woman wants; no matte
what she is doing her nerves are drawn like tn
strings of fiddle, and they are bound to breal
either all at once one at time. She is in
clned to eat good bit of nonsense, and SO he
stomach demands its rest as well as her nerves
and il gets it if the three days are adhered to.
cLUBMEN ARE DRINKING MILK.
By the by, there has never been so niue
vogue given to milk as there is just now. 1
fact there are hundreds OF clubmen who haV
never seen as much since they went from on
bottle to another. You are asked to have
glass Of hot milk, or glass Of milk and yichy
just as you are asked to have a cup of tea, c
some creme de nleatbe In a cut-glass goble
standing on bright-hued plate, the milk an
vichy is particularly appetzing, and it is mai
yelous how much of it the men drink. Now
this isn't the result of preaching a temperate
sermon. 1t is the result OF Offering simpl
drink in an attractive manner. Service in tn
world means so much, and really it seems to /
more appreciated by men than by women.
boiled potato and piece of beefsteall on a hC
plate, with a gitterng silver fork and brigl
steel knife, with the butter in dainty lit
pat, and the bread in a smooth-cut piece, wit
lhe whitest of napery is more appetizing thG
= dinner of twenty courses served in carele
fashion. When women learn that man n
only wants his stomach but his eyes catered
there viii be fewer labor riots, fewer men
dine away from home, and fewer clubs that d
pend on married men for their support.
THE WOMAN WITH A HEADACHE.
! waded through one column of closel
printed matter headed, ''Do you ever have
headache?" only to discover, when l reacht
the tail end of it, that it was adyertiseme
for a natent medicine: but il rot me to thin