Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-05-07


not allowed to breathe hurause of thick |
lace yeils. Those baby lips would so |
like sip of water, and they cannot ask |
for it. Ii they cry, nine times out of |
ten they are banged on the back and
iolted up and down until they are
almost really for infantie insane
asylums. Ii they fairly yell in their
desire for cooling drink, nine more
times out of the proyerbial ton, the
end of long black tube is poked in
their mouths, and they suck up liquid
that is half warm and half sour, and
bound to bring pains whero pains are
most unpleasant TO a baby. Nobody
ever thinks baby is thirsty except for
food; nobody over thinks that, when
the Thermometer is ut so, three flannel
petticoats are too much for even a
baby. Do you suppose that a baby
likes to have it's lower flannel petticoat
Tapped over and buttoned so that it
doesn't control its legs? | wish "a
society for the proper dressing of babies
in warm weather could be started such
a society would be of a great deal more
importance than one that lends pic.
lures or givas flowers to the dWellers in
tenement houses.
There is a deal of sickly senti
mentality about this lending Of pic
lures to the poor. Give them outright,
or elee don't send them at all. If |
lived iu two rooms, and happened to be
the mother of seven small children,
fathered by man who earned Sl4 a
week. and | had picture of La
Giaconda" hanging before me, would
get up and smash it without regard to
it's owner That eternal smile may be
artistic and mystic and non under
standable, but it is exasperating to the
last degree. 10 grin, and grin, and
grin, and never cease to grin. is very
objectionable thing TO do. Then, on
Il warm day, when the family dinner
was to consist of corned beef and cab
bage, and the baby was crying with the
collie, and two Of the children were
groaning with pain as natural result
Of eating unripe fruit, what joy would
come to a woman, or what rest, from
gazing at the "IIuguenot Lovers?"
They look so cool that any woman who
was warm and who smot the healthful
but not delicate odor of cabbage and
corned beef, would want them TO go,
even in Il picture, down, down, down
ia where it was warmer even than in
that Kitchen, and whore the heat
would increase forever and forever.
WHERE THE POOH DWELL.
When the Thermometer is at 30, how
can cancall those places homes where the
wurkingmen live? The wife takes nc
interest in anything except hanging
out OF the window, or over the fire
escape, eossiping with her neighboi
aud indulging in an occasional glass OF
beer; the children lie around and fight
death. There is no knowledge of the
different kinds of food; that dinner
may be cheap, good and yet cool never
enters the head of the woman. That
cleanliness and coolness are almost
synonomous is unknown. The chances
are that before her marriage the wife
was a household servant. She spent al
her money in clothes, and she is ignor
ant of everything that she should
know. Economy in preparing the food,
little care to it's presentation, and {
little thought as to the rooms them
selves, never come to her. She IL
always untidy looking. she is Away
hot, and she is always ready for a quar-
rel. She takes no interest in anything
except the dreadful crimes of the da,
as they arc told in the most vulgar o
newspapers. She likes those newspa
pers that are, really, colleges for crime
The boy who stole bun yesterday be
cause he was hungry, is taught by sucl
newspapers how to rob his employer to
morrow, and how to break bank tn
next day. This woman of the tene
ments takes great pleasure, as she i
usually of foreign birth or descent, il
laughing at tho stupidity of the polio
of New York City. Murders ara com
mitted and forgotten; jewels are stolen
, aud my lady Of the tenement announce
with happy giggie, An shure
, TUX the gentlemen from Scotland fart
to foind the robbers, and then, in
way more expressive than polite, sh
unites her nose and her thumb an
waves her dstdnded fingers at tn
bobby who stands ON the street below
, HEAT AND wicKEDNEss ARE clos
FRIENDS.
l Personally, | believe that many
> man would have been clean of mind
he had ever had an opportunity to b
clean of body. There is a work for th
> charitable people, and good worl
$ Introduce free baths wherever you car
4 Not merely such baths as mean goin
Y into the river, bu. baths in houst
] where the women and children can g
] and whore they will come out more sci
, respecting than when they went in.
O don't believe that cleanliness is next
n godliness. | believe that you can't
e dirty and godly. The cleanliness ht
s gob to come first. The worship of soa
: and water was inculcated into me at d
S early day and by means of higl
Q heeled red satin slipper. Since thei
+; regret TO say, that / have grown olde
. but | have never forgotten. And
y would recommend to any mother whol
o child objects to a bath the use of
/, slipper with Louis Quartorze hee
= this heel affords a good grip and ii
It slipper flies up and down in a way tn
i suggests perpetual motion and Whit
II produces heat OF body with a cal
after spirit. Those old saints who usC
10 let their hair grow and wear rob
~ that rotted on them and refused to
). introduced to water are, to my thin
n ing, frauds. 1t cannot please the got
"a God who made you in his own imai
IS to see that image defiled by ordina
Is dirt. 1t was meant that we shou
If keep the body that entrances the sol
ii sweet and pure and pleasant TO lo'
a upon. The man who believes dirt W
Is increase his godiness is most awful
Nv mistaken.
r. WOMAN SHOULD RE CLEAN.
a A womans oh, don't like to thil
lt Of woman and dirt together. 81
J, ought 10 be really too much of wom
y for that. Of course. the heat of Il
- day sometimes makes the dust of t
IR day accumulate on one, but that
u easily gotten rid of. 1t doesn't cor
O. to Stay; it will disappear when Il
y nuaintance is made with warn. watl