The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-30
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| None Of Us would inflict such cruelty
with thumb and finger, but how Is it
with Baby's clothIng-bands and straps
and sleeves and ankle fastenIngs7 Are
We sure they are soft and giving on the
sensitive flesh and tender little limbs?
How much our helpless babies can
suffer from bands and bindings that
choke and ehafe them with their
scratchy, goading edges. we cannot
know, since our skin, doubtless, ls
thirty years older. and, maybe, that
many times tougher than Baby's.
Perhaps we do know how irriEatingIy
uncomfortable are the pInchlng sleeves
OF some wiry. raspIng dress that we
allowed fashion to cut with too snug
fit 10 our arms. Then let us be merefful
In cutting sleeves and arm sizes for our
little folks, whose tender flesh Is sorely
chafed by rough seam. and whose
arms round out 50 fast, and allow gem
erous space for breathing and growing
room.
All seams and bindings on Baby.s
clothing should be made perfectly
smooth and fiat, and as soft as can be
sewed from silk gauze flannel, and un-
starehed. finest cambrie, that no bung-
ling ridges, or hard seratchy edges may
goad the sensitive flesh.
Not long since / saw a fond auntie
making underwalsts for her little
nieces. one and three years old. The
garments were cut from stout un-
bleached drilling that would wear like
sheet Iron and give almost as little.
For greater strength the arm sizes were
bound with strip OF the same stout
goods. making a thick. scraplng finish
that was hard and rough enough TO
rasp the skin from an ox's neck, IN It
had encircled II. But a no less cruelty
was In the serimping dimensions OF
these arm holes, cut so small that the
little fat arms could scarcely be squeezed
through them. Not a bit OF space
allowed for the play and growth and
breathing room for the poor little ehoked
limbs.
In selecting boots for our little peopl
we must see that plenty OF ankle a
instep. as well as toe room. Ii given /
fast growing feet. You and find acute
misery In pinching boots, especially
across the instep. How much more
1Sd0t AA44ot 6u4CI Will CIdGk bLflELuTE@
cutting into her soft flesh and strangllnQ
sensitive chords.
/ have seen sock ribbons and ankle-tie
straps drawn so tightly that the plump
ness Of Baby's ankles was pinched into
purple ridges. and who has not seen both
scrawny and fat little feet so strangled
In too snugly buttoned boots that the
warm blood could not circulate In them
and ice-cold feet were one OF the evil con-
sequences?
Little folks-and big folks, too, as for
that, need breathing room all over; feet
and arms and wrists and ankles, lungs
and stomach and bowels, and common
sense tells us to let them have IL.
Plenty of breathing room, and good.
pure air to breathe, with common sense,
care and cleanliness means a sound
body and a sunny nature for the grow
ing baby.
When our little one Is fIetful and
troublesome. instead OF attrlbuting its
irritability and wretchedness to collie or
eeth or worms, as we are apt to do, see
IL Baby's miserableness Is not caused by
cruel huneh or band or seam that
somewhere Is ohating or choking its
person.-Ladles' Home Journal.