St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-25
WOMEN and BABIES.
You Can Judge a True Wom-
an by Her Fondness for
Babies.
She Loves Them Because 1t
Is Her Nature 10
Do So.
There Are Occasional Women
However, Who Don't Like
Babies,
And They Are Much More
to Be Pitied Than
Blamed.

NEW YORK. Sept. pa woman is
hot supposed to be woman unless she
likes babies. 1t is considered one of
her womanly qualities. and is bracketed
with fear of mice and black beetles, a
deep sense of religion, and an utter in
capacity for knocking in nails and
throwing stones. If she doesn't like
babies, if she doesn't very readily talk
baby language, if she doesn't cheerfully
give up her person TO be saturated by
sticky caresses and her watch chain for
toy, if she hasn't that peculiar art of
tracing remote likenesses from the
pudgy features OF babyhood back to the
mature features of baby hoods an
cestors, if she doesn't know how to
apply the bottle and which way to turn
the infant over when it cries, then she
isn't natural woman and has 40 ma
lcrnal instincts.
fortunately most women IKE DapleS;
they are born with tasle for thenl-if
/ may say so without seeming cannbal-
lstic-eyactiy as they are born with
taste for candies and finery; say for
tunately. for there are always lot of
babies in the world, the supply being
always greater than the demand, and
the woman who doesn't like them mas
hard work TO avoid them.
There are such thingS-there are such
anomalies as women VINO don't IKE
babies These are generally termed
''odd n rls," and have masculine tastes.
They're more to be pitled than 0lamea.
They are all right as long as they are
playing golf, or tennis, or SMOKING Gig
arettes. or sculling or talking Brown
ing, but bring them face to face with
real, genuine, pink, moist, sticky. IRE
pressbIe baby with all the unreason-
able whims and fancieS and halt-eX-
pressed wholly inarticulate wants and
general manner of being understood.
that good healthy baby always has,
and the odd masculine girl who is ac-
cuStomed to having an admirlng audi
pnce and to feel herself monarch OF all
she surveys. sinks into Il covering and
embarrassed being.
She will not degrade herself to talk
baby talk. TO babble of "Tootsie-WO DOT
sie'' and "Didums," and the language
of Milton and Shakespeare is not appar-
emily ineligible to this infant, whose
taste has been prematurely spoiled by
this atrocious pat"iS Invented by the
idiotlc mother ant q INT tribe.
The masculine, U.J sort of girl knows
her failings Even her sternest chron-
icler must allow that much, ard she can
view the baby whlmSically as sort OF
necessary evil, and take quite humor-
DuS view of the situation when 1t is once
over. but while she is holding 1.-THE
baby, | mean-she feels she is not look
ing ner best, and realizes that her share
Of maternal instincts have been given to
some other girl.
When she has the baby given her to
hold, in justice to her | must say that
She keeps out of this part of the cere-
mony as long as she can, probably as
mucn tor the baby,s sake as for her
own; then it is she feels her position
most keenlv. The baby that was as wax
In the hands of the mother. the mothers S
friend and the nurSe-an elastic baby,
in fact, adjusting itself with gutta-
percha eomplacenee to any positlOn-iS is
now inelastic, stiff and unyieldlng.
With an obviously amateuriSh air the
"odd grip attempts to get the infant
into a comfortable position such as she
has seen it assume in other arms. No
goodi the perverse child recognizes the
fact that it is being manipulated by
prentice hands, and resents it with a
supernatural Indignation which finds
once stamped as "bungler." one whom
baby doesn't take to-" and thus gives
her for the time a deep humility and a
deeper distaste than ever for babies.
| strolled into Redfern's salon last
week and looked at the gowns which he
has just imported. L noted return
gradual and unobtrusive, of course-to
the draped skirts. and the ShortnesS of
the waists Is quite surprising. Three
materials were employed in many of
the gowns of three cOlOrS. judiciously
and harmoniously grouped. One gown
had a casque Of tan-colored cloth. braid
I'd al! over with narrow green and black
braids. The remainder of the gown
was composed of green and black tweed,
and the severity of it was enhanced by
the prettinesS of the highly decorated
basque.
Another unique and pretty gown was
princess of taE-colOred ladies' cloth,
with longsh Eton jacket of black vel
ret, the open fronts lined with a gleam-
ing yellow silk, and shoulder Hegligee
Of black velvet also lined with the silk,
and stole-like scarf of white silk, DEL
lcately embroidered with gold, is worn
inside the velvet jacket to form vest,
which shows just a glimpse of tan color
between. The gathered revers, shoul-
der frills and wheel shoulder arrange
ments were on nearly every gown that
L saw, and also are seen Oh many of the
coats, only the regulation reeter and
driving coats beng severely made.