The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-06-30
THE cARE'0f BABIES.
THEY NEED A GREA T DEAL DURING
THE hot WEA TIER SEASON.
senora Sara Gives Some Advice-The Nurse
Should Bc Looked After as Well as the
Baby-About he Proper Food.

One can't help feeling sorry for ba-
bies and little Children this biistering
weather. Theiy ssn't Glove. capeted
ment any that ehS 'e 'h he o9 hanplest S1 per-
iod OF ones life. but it seems to me mat
In hot weather Tidy have more than their
share OF discomfort People seem 10
tnink that a child being small, has less
sensilN" feelings than a grown person,
anu pue sights upon II that are direct
insults ana would be resented as such n
S Sne .niiu were old enough TO assert us
o' Esnsc, IN a more forceful manner
.-sPeVlaliy are babies In long clothes
enc NiSNms OF ignorance and deliberate
vsnsr,viessness. All they can do to resent
.a.r ed'nent Is to wall and that only
makes them more Objectionable so they
So nusted out OF sight and hearing
se"e'ihes IN the charge OF children VINO
eele not ola enough 10 know how TO care
81. 'neh,' ana very often a vicious nurse
ssen.,., ieit to exercise her cruelty on
s"eni II Is 50 strange TO begin with that
.hho.hefS are willing and even eaeerto put
ucir hepiess little ones In the care OF
siris VIVA are so ignorant. so uncultured,
50 unpre1 possessing altogether that they
sSe Older cd to fs%y %ho W are
Work az ,6 am,inaiion yet are ieft to
wno are in ne formative period. with
...nus as DlaStc as putty. ready 10 alb
Sop precept ant example Just as sponge
uvss water. and all in 1t that may be un-
clean: Not lonl since / dlned with some
.r,ehas, and IL became necessary al the
10 corret the son Of the house FOR
primahded thcbittle fellow, who. on being
told to eat with his fork. responded flip
PANTY, fingers was made before forks.
MS horrlhcd mother-for they arc gent
~ bred people asked him where he had
neard such remark. and where he had
been permitted TO eat with HIS fingers.
only TO learn that the Jewel OF siri
VINO Kept the children so carefully out OF
ner sight and was such a comfort 10 her
mistress was I'm the habit Of eating with
her fingers and had made the historic
remark for the- benefit Of her small
charges. whoihad objected at nrst 20 her
dipping indi sci Intimately into the dishes.
IGNORANT NURSE.
Further inv4 stigation proved that while
she was fOndl Of and kind 10 the children
the nurse wed sJperstitious and had filed
their heads With a lot Of superstltOus nom
sense which iIhad made them afraid OF
their own shadows and that she mad
table MANNERS about as refir ed as
cannibals. There was a nurse wanted"
advertisements i'm the papers the next
day. but thel damage was done, and II
took months 10 undo IT, Meantime, the
childreH did almost daily penance, ana
often got severely punished for doing as
fhe Jewel OF girl had taught them
TO. When the nurse is actually vicious u
sometimes takes years 10 eradicate the
tEll Snt teaches the tDllurcn IN ltl care.
Passing along through Lafay cite Park
one day last week, | heard "A baby crying
most pitifully. and in one Of the by-walks
i found II strapped down in its handsome
carriage. the sun pouring down in It's
face. and not a soul near who seemed 10
have charge of It. Its heated little face
was distorted with suffering which would
have wrung the heart of its rich mamma
IL she could have seen II. ON eXamina-
ton. found that its skirt band mad been
put around II so tight that IL was tOrtur-
Ing its tender flesh. and. 10 add 10 Its
misery. had got rolled into a double fold
across its stomach,
just as / got the band Strengthened and
clothes loosened. and the baby had stop
ped yelling the nurse appeared from an
other by-walk. where she had been talk
ing to her young man." and Indignantly
remarked. she took the quoted child
from my arms, that "sOme folks imper-
dence was past believin.' that IT was,"
and whipped the carriage off i'm the di-
rection N the Arlington. II that baby
died ht from congestion of the
brain. Hpasms. doubtless its loving
mothe a its white face with tears
and sl .rked its body with blossoms,
wonk - Why Providence had been so
unkifm her when. in fact. Providence
was kin o the child in taking II away
from pa hts who were so careless OF its
slender 0 and the fd mother the . IN o@s
death