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taken off and the small legs left to fly at
will under the. plain little muslin gown.
Clothes for the Tender Limha.

clothes LOT the Tender Limbs.
This should-be made in the old-fashioned
sack style, than which nothing better was
ever invented. You may make it of as fine
material as you like. linen, lawn. nainsook,
cambria or difnity. but you will never find
anything more lasting than the English
"1ongcloth." or that will launder better. 1t
is as fine as silk to the touch and should
never be profaned with starch for a baby.
Don't trim It, "A tiny edge of fine lace at
the neck and wrists will make a pretty
finish. but only the cobwebbiest of embroid-
cry should be used. and even then the
slight roughness will hurt the flesh of
some babies. Make the little gowns q yard
long and two yards wide at the bottom,
and put six-inch strings of the same three
fourths of yard long in the side seams to
tie the gowns back.
For morning wear, plainly made double
gowns of daintily colored outing flannel
are best to slip on baby till dressing time.
For sudden cool spells, q blanket of q
square of wide cream cashmere, with a
border of crocheted silk or wool, and roomy
little sacks of the same are quite the thing
OF course you will have soft wool bottles
or stockings. Make all the first clothes
roomy. The baby that seems lost in them
the first day will fill them nicely about the
fourteenth. Don't make too many clothes
They get yellow with lying by. and it is
unnecessary extravaganza. For the first
three months babies, like little pigs should
sleep and eat, eat and sleep, be kept COM
Portable and aside from that, be let Sc
verely alone. The palmer It's clothes, the
better for its comfort.
One clean gown day, barring accident, is
enough for any child till it is past year
old and is on exhibition. Eight Of the
plain gowns will be ample number with
the six pinning blankets, six flannel skirts,
two fine, and four plain ones. Muslin skirts
are unnecessary, but if you must have
them, three will answer. Three pretty
dresses. encrusted with needle work, and
1ora o,,a rnh ota1 ,,oylt to r
isfy your vanity. Half a dozen double
gowns, three little sacks, two blankets to
"spell' each other, while being done up.
four pairs of bootees, six shirts. and two
dozen squares made of double cotton
diaper, is a big wardrobe for baby's first
year.
Mothers Responsibility.
1t may be that you will want to add some
more fine dresses and. Of course. there is
the cloak and caps. but those should be
an after consideration. 1t isn't every long
editor baby that lives, and very often the
exrectant mother uses up SO much Of her
nervous force and vitality getting ready
for the little stranger. that when it comes
1t is a fretful weakling, with small vigor,
and weak constitution, the result pure
and simple, OF its mothers ignorance and
vanity. Good hearty food. plenty of healthy
exercise, stimulating reading and a strict
regard for all of natures laws will gen
orally result in giving a baby the right
kind of mother, and insuring the new
soul a body fit to live in
After the baby comes you must be more
riSiCly careful than ever if you nurse the
little thing yourself, and you should IL
possible, for that is part of the burden of
motherhood. The strictest attention should
be paid to your diet, because every time
you have Indigestion, a headache, or get
oveiheated. the baby will howl with the
collie. Intelligent motherhood is one of the
crying needs of our civilization, and until
we have more of it the babies are going
to srend the first few years of their lives,
painful fight for a normally healthy body,
WI ich should have been their birthright,
hut of which they were robbed by the al
me st criminal ignorance of their progeni-
tors. SONORA SARA.