The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-11
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER ii, 1896

really in distress, because of some neg
lect in regard TO its food or clothing.
IT it is a bottle-fed baby perhaps its
distress is on account of stomachache, be-
cause of carelessness in cleaning the
bottle. This Is too often trusted to an
inexperienced nurse, when the mother
should give it her special supervision.
The care of the nursing bottle is always
Imperative, in winter as well as. during
| the trying summer weather. They must
| not be neglected after a single using.
1t is best for the mother to provide her.
| self with at least two bottles, so that
| one can be undergoing the cleaning pro-
| cess while the other is in use. To make
| them perfectly sweet, fill with lime wa
| ter, or water in which a little soda has
| been dissolved. Also put the glass tube,
| cork and nipple in water thus prepared.
| Besides the brushes accompanying the
| bottle, a good stiff tooth brush should be
| kept for cleansing the cork. Another
| thing of great Importance is the time OF
| nursing. Do not, as a rule, feed the baby
under three months of age oftener than
every two hours, gradually frightening
the interval to three hours, between each
feeding. If the child cries. try to soothe
] it in some other way, you will doubtless
| only aggravate the trouble by feeding 1t
between meals" For it is an acknoWl-
edged fact that more babies cry from the
| pains of an overtaxed stomach than from
| the pains of hunger
How about the clothing "comforts?" Is
| the baby's band soft and loose and com.
| Portable, or has it been allowed to be-
\ come tight, rough, stringy affair that
| is enough to irritate the beSt-natured
| baby living? These bands should be
| made of soft white flannel measuring
| four fingers in length and one and ONE
| half in width. In the lower edge take
| two small darts, making 1t easier to keep
| the band in place; turn over narrow
| edge all around the band and cat
| stitch" it down. This will make soft,
| fiat band, and one that will not be con-
| tinually in a string unless pinned so
firmly that the poor baby can scarcely
| breathe. From two to three weeks is
usually sufficiently long for the baby to
| wear this though in some cases it is de-
siraDle to Keep it on longer.
In Paris the bicycle girl is devoted to
her boomers. She has no use for
skirt. The fact is that the cycling young
| woman of the French capital is apt to
| be somewhat daring in regard to her
costume. At present she is not only rid
| ing in boomers. but she has given up
wearing long stockings, and has adopted
| SOCKS. The socks she wears with low
| shoes. Thus a goodly portion of her bare
| leg is visible to the motley throng. But
| she doesn't seem to mind it in the least.
This new fashion, however, is a little
| too Frenchy for the American girl for,
according to all accounts, she is still show
ing her old-time interest in bicycling
| hose.
The dullness, that is to say, the infre-
quency of dances and dinners and other
| evening entertainments, this summer at
| the fashionable Watering-places has been
| universal. People, says the New York Tri-
bune, have generally ascribed this lassi-
| tude and Discrimination for easy forms of
settled condition of the country. This,
dissipation to the hard times and the UNI
settled condition of the country. This,
| however, is a mistake, for in all other re-
| spects as much money has been spent as
usual Never have the turnouts been more
| sumptuous, from the English coach with
| the splendid team of handsomely capar-
isoned horses to the babys tiny Shetland.
with its perfectly appointed cart and trap
ping. These and the ever beautiful toilettes
of the women certainly show no signs of
a depleted exchequer on the part of their
| owners.
1.-THE explana ton of the whole matter"
said Newport man recently, "is that out
door sports have completely eclipsed every
other form of entertainment, and the long
days spent in more or less violent eXer-
else in the open air naturally render peo-
pie disinciined for long, heavy dinners and
late balls. After riding for hours on ones
Wheel or tramping over the links in pur-
suit of the tquinine pill, as the Texas man
called the golf ball, for miles. the prospect
of an all nights entertainment is not al
! Turing, especially in summer"
This seems to be the general feeling.
! Dances are actually dreaded, and dinners
| barely endured for tired-out fashionable
| people, who have their days so full that at
night, as they themselves express 1t, they
are "only fit to go to bed" Riding and sail
ing have also been more or less abandoned
for the more firing sports already men,
toned, which seem to absorb all the en-
ergy and enthusiasm of the community.
q have noticed" said a distinguished
diplomat, "that when the Americans take
up anything new they become completely
absorbed in it, and have no thought or
pleasure in anything else. 1t is an excellent
quality, no doubt but for an outsider just
a little boring
A Glasgow lady, says the Philadelphia
Times, has had a singular experience.
About the beginning of November last
she paid a hurried visit to her business
premises, and while there lost the diamond
| from a favorite ring. Search was made
/ everywhere for the precious stone. The
/ shop was given an extra sweep, the dust
/ placed in a hair" sieve and washed, but
| not a trace of the lost jewel was got.
! Concluding that the diamond was gone
/ for good the ring was reset and the loss
almost forgotten, when the owners daugh-
! ter, who had accompanied her to the shop
! on the occasion, remarked, Mother,
! there's something in the heel of my right
| boot which catches the carpet every step
/ l take" 'sSee what it is" was the reply, and
there, firmly imbedded in the solid leather,
was the missing diamond. Singularly
enough, during the past two months the
young lady had been at the country and
walked over the hard. macadamzed roads.
Diamond, in no way injured, and boot heel
are to join the heirooms of the family.
one of the most fashionable bodices now
| worn is the short boero or zouave jacket,
| of which there are many types. One made
Of embroidered grass linen, edged with
tiny plating of cream silk muslin, is a
delightful finish to a light silk or muslin
gown. Belts and sashes are all-important
/ features of costumes. Closely folded belts
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