Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-03

| weather tdecency compels me 10 call IL
| by no stronger name) knocks out all
| curls except those that nature has ar
ranged. Stiff collars will grow imp,
satin stocks lose all their dignity, ana
frills of lace have droopy look that is
| demOralizing. The woman OF fasnlon
prefers the cold weather
THE BABIES SUFFER.
will tell YOU who are TO be pitied
those hot davs-the babies. The poor
little mites are swathed in flannel ana
| folded in huge cloaks, not allowed 10
hear because of thick silk caps, and not
| allowed TO breathe because of thick SILK
wells Those baby lips would so like
| sip Of water. and they cannot ask Tor IT,
II they cry. nine times out OF ten they
are banged on the back and jolted up
and down until they are almost READY
| for infantile insane asylums. II they
/ fairly veil in their desire for coollng
| drink. nine more times out of the prov
erbial ten, the end of long black tube
is poked in their mouths, and they suck
I'D a LIQUID that is half warm and half
sour. and bound TO bring pains where
pains are most unpleasant 10 baby.
/ Nobody ever thinks a baby is thirsty
| except for food: nobody ever thinks
| that when the thermometer is at nine
! ". three flannel petticoats are too muc1
for even baby Do ycu suppose
baby likes to have its lower flannel pet
| ticOat Tapped over and buttoned so that
! il doesn't control its legs? | wish 4 Sc
ciety for the proper dressing of babies
| a society would be of a great deal more
Importance than one that lends pic
lures or gives flowers 10 the jewellers in
tenement houses.
There Is deal of Sickly sentimental
ity about this lending of pictures to the
poor. Give them outright, or else don't
send them at ALL If | lived in two
rooms. and happened TO be the mother
of seven small children. fatherx by a
man who earned fourteen dGAars a
week. and l had picture of La Gia-
cOnda" hanging before me. would get
up and smash it without regard to its
owner. That eternal smile may be ar
tistic and mystic and no-understand-
able, but it is eXasperating to the last
degree. To grin. and grin, and grin,
and never cease to grin, is very OBJ
jectiOnable thing to do. Then. on a
warm day. when the family dinner was
to consist OF corned beef and cabbage.
and the baby was crying with the collie.
and two of the children we're grooming
with pain as a natural result of eating
unripe fruit, what joy would come to
woman. or what rest, from gazing at
the 'HuguenOt Lovers" They look so
cool that any woman VINO was warm
and who smelt the healthful but not
delicate OdOr of cabbage and corned
beef, would want them TO go. even in
a picture. down. down, down 10 where
1t was warmer even than in that kitch-
en- and where the heat would increase
forever and forever.
WHERE THE POOR DWELL.
When the thermometer is at ninety.
how can YOU call those places homes
where the working men live? The wife
takes no interest in anything except
hanging out OF the window, or over the
fire escape gosSipping with her neigh
borS, and 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 good, cheap and yet cool
never enters the head of a woman.
That cleanliness and GOODNESS are al
most synonymous is unknown. The
chances are that before her marriage
the wife was household servant. She
spent all her money in clothes, and she
IS ignorant of everything she should
know. Economy in preparing the food,
little care in its presentation. and a
little thought as TO the rooms them
selves. never come to her. She Is al
ways untidy looking. she is always hot.
and she is always ready for a quarrel.
She takes no interest in anything. ex-
cept the dreadful crimes of the day as
they are told in the most vulgar of news
papers. She likes those newspapers
that are, really, colleges for crime. The
boy who stole a bun yesterday because
he was hungry is taught by those news
papers how 10 rob his employer to-
morrow. and how 70 break a bank the
next day. This woman of the tene-
ments takes great pleasure. as she is
usually Of foreign birth or descent. in
laughing at the stupidity of the police OF
New York City. Murders are commit
ted and forgotten. jewels are stolen. and
my lady of the tenement announces
with happy giggle. An sure it took
the gentlemen from Scotland Yard 10
fOind the robbers" and then. in a way
more expressive than polite. she unites
her nose and her thumb and waves her
distended fingers at the bobby who
stands on the street below.
HEAT AND WICKEDNESS ARE
CLOSE FRIENDS.
Personally, | believe that many a
man would have been clean of mind If
he had ever had an opportunity to be
clean of body. There is a work for the
charitable people. and a good work.
Introduce free baths wherever you can.
Not merely such baths as mean going
into the river, but baths in houses
where the women and children can go.
and where they will come out more self
respecting than when they went in.
don't believe that cleanliness is next to
godlineSS. | believe that you can't be
dirty and cody. The cleanliness has
got 10 come first. The worship of soap
and water was inculcated into me at an
early day and by means of a high-heel-
ed red satin slipper. Since then, | re-
greet 10 say. that l have grown older.
but l have never forgotten. And
would recommend 10 any mother whose
child objects to a bath the use of a
slipper with a Louis Quartorze heel:
this heel affords a good grip. and the
slipper flies up and down in a way that
suggests perpetual motion. and which
produces heat of body, with calm af-