The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-14
BABIES ARE FASHIONABLE.
"eAB" SAYS THEY ARE IN NEW YORK.
Young Wives of Gotham Proud TO BE Moth
rs-H the Babies Are D~ressed-The
Art of Keeping Young-Mlk Drink.
ing-Headaches, Etc.
Copyright, 1891, Box Syndicate Pre,,.l

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most emphatically answered in the affirm
ative. The smartest of the young fash
ionable women in New York are never so
proud as when they are accompanied in
their drives by a handsome baby-prouder
and happierif they happen to have twins;
and the whole lot of them were as e%nvious
as they could he 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 are
used for their frocks, but lace and en-
broidery are counted as undesirable,
though no end of fine sewing by band is
permitted.
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 il 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 a 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 a skirt
OF lawn, a silk knitted shirt and a little
gown beautifully but simply made of linen
lawn. Its coat was a white cloth one, with
a cape to it, and the hat a white silk
shirred one that tied down over the little
ears to keep them warm. The hands
were covered with brown gloves and a
little ermine muff on a cord was swung
about the neck. so it couldn't be lost, even
If it wanted TO. Its coat collar was fas-
tened with a little bar pin on which was
engraved, Little JAY" SO Jay, jr., was
duplicated a dol.
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
90 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 a wife and q mother; and, my
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laugh and say she wouldn't be bothered
with a baby, don't you believe it. God
hasn't seen tit to make her a 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
q mother, and when she doesn't there is
something wrong about her, something
wicked, and she can never be either a
good friend or a good wife unless she has
this desire. Wemay only have bread and
cheese to offer, but you know if they are
spiced with kisses they have a flavor that
the finest sweets, the richest of game, and
the most delicate fruits do not possess.
Have you had any instruction in the
art of keeping yourself young forever.
This is the method. 1t is strongly recon-
mended that every woman who can will
90 to bed three DAYS in the month, sleep
as mucn as possibir and think and eat as
little. II she can stand it, a glass of milk
aud vichy at morning and night will be
quite enough for her. III she finds herself
faint, an egg beaten up in the milk will
soon strengthen her I'D. There is no
doubt about it that n little fasting is a
good thing, and the woman who has the
courage to do this will work better, live
longer and look better than the woman
who hasn't the courage to seek the seclu-
sion of her bed for three days. Rest, and
enough of il, is what the American woman
wants no matter what she is doing, her
nerves are drawn like the strings of a
fiddle. and they are bound to break either
all at once or one at a time.
She is inclined to eat a good bit of
nonsense, and so her stomach demands
its rest as well as her nerves, and it gets it
1.-THE three days are adhered to.
Rv the wav there has neVar baon M
much vogue given to milk as there is Just
now. In fact, there are hundreds of club
men who have never seen as much since
they went from one bottle TO another.
You are asked TO have a glass of hot milk,
or a glass of milk and vichy, Just as you
are asked to have a cup of tea or some
creme de menthe. In a cut-glass goblet,
standing On a bright-hued plate, the milk
and vichy is particularly appetizing, and.
it is marvellous how much of it the men
drink. Now, this isn't the result of
preaching a temperance sermon. 1t is
the result of offering a simple drink in an
attractive N Service in this world
means so much, and really it seems to be
more appreciated by men thar by women,
a boiled potato and a piece of beefsteak
on a hot plate. with a glittering silver fork
and a bright steel knife, with the butter in
O dainty little pat, and the bread in a
smoOth-cut piece, with the whitest of
napery, is more appetizing than a dinner
of twenty courses served in a careless
fashion. When women learn that a man
not only wants his stomach but his eyes
catered to, there will be fewer labor riots,
fewer men to dine away from home and
fewer clubs that depend on married men
for their support.
waded through one column of closely
printed matter headed, "Do you ever have
a headache?" only to discover, when L
reached the tail end of it, that it was an
advertisement for a patent medicine; but
it got me to thinking about headaches,
their causes and their effects. l have no
sympathy with a headache hat results
from over-eating, and which appears in
the morning at the breakfast table with a
wet bandage tied firmly around its fore
head, a decidedly cross expression on its
face, and which, by its peculiarities, causes
the entire family TO feel blue. That kind
is best put out by beating with sticks and
a double dose of charcoal but there is an
other kind of headache. 1t is the head
ache that comes when you nave tried to
do your best, when you nav tried to be
honorable and considerate of your neigh
Dor, when you have taken OF the good
things that come unto you and given
them to others gladly, and with a smiling
face, and when all this is done and there
in an unexnreSsad uonderment that Won