The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-24
How Hrs. Curzon, Wife of the New
ViCeroy of India, Trains Her
Little Daughter.
SHE HAS SEVEN NURSES
Sleeps in Hammock, Knows No Buttons or String
Sees No Color But White, and Leads, Alto-
gether, Most Remarkable Life.

ton forms the rest Of her underclothes.
She wears a triple garment that is an
| ingenious device of her mothers planned
| in the days when the lovely woman
who is to rule over 300 900 coo subjects in
India, made her successful studies Of
motherhood. The garment is a combined
slip or dress, a cambria or nainsook petit
| coat and flannel petticoat. 1t depends
from the baby shoulders by narrow rib
| bons or bands upon the slip. which is the
outer of the three garments.
Mrs. Curzon's aim was to do away
with the multiplicity fbands and dress
waists, which she believed retarded the
growth Of the babys body. The slip. of
finest nainsook or cambria, then, furn-
| ishes the only covering for the upper part
| OF the body. A flannel petticoat minus
the usual band is gathered inside the slip
al the waist line.
! Between the flannel skirt and the outer
! slip is skirt of nainsook or cambria. The
baby garment when finished is not unlike
the fashionable skirt of several and
; vari-cOlored Innings, or a flower with
| three whorls Of petals.
The aim of the designer of this novel
garment was llygenic rather than aesthet-
ic. She wanted to aviod the constrfictio
| of the tender waist and the pressure upon
the delicate organs by strings or bands
/ and to make the little shoulders bear the
| weight. Her own Empire and Josephine
| gowns in which she had shown at many
! a bail furnished her both inspiration and
! models Over the triple garment Miss
| Curzon wears a coat of embroidered silk
| or wool.
| In her little life the daughter of the
/ Viceroy Of India has never seen but one
| color-white. Tine nursery Is finished in
white woods. There are white rugs on the
! floor. The window draperies are white
and the baby herself is always dressed
| entirely in the emblem of purity.
! Mrs. CurZon abhors the primitive alb
dolninad band, known to physicians as
| binders. She is unsupported in this view
| Some physicians have tried to disuade
mothers from the use of this lion cloth,
as unyielding as a grip Of iron about their
tender loins, for a decade or more.
The time-honored belief that they fur
nish a, support for the spine has been
! the reason for their continuance. The
wife of the new ruler of Anglo-India
| thinks otherwise. The infant trosseau pre-
]
/ Giles.
In those paradfSaical islands of Hawaii
which form new gem of our country's
adjoining. they of the blood royal were
known as "tabu," or sacred to the touch
of all but royalty. The necessary offices
! of the nurse were performed but these
were the only exceptions to the rule that
no rude handling should be xcorded TO
King or Queen, Kingling or Queenling.
The daughter of the vice ruler of India
| IS equally exempt though for a different
reason. The sovereigns and theor off
springs were tabu in Hawaii by reason Of
| sacred from the touch Of all but mother
and nurses, because Of regard for health
Hands thought to be gentle are often
rough in their handling of infants.
Again by her NURSERY edict has Mrs
Curzon proven herself one Of the wisest
mothers o fthe time. When the baby is
carried about it is not on the hands nor
yet in the arms, but on a pillow.
The baby of the Curzon family has seven
attendants. They are a head nurse, who
is in authority over the little retinue:
three trained nurses, two of whom look
after the baby day by day and the other
by might; and three maids who obey the
behests Of the nurses and fetch and carry
at their viii.
At night the infant sleeps in clothes
that are a duplicate of those she wears
| by day in a wicker crib that may swing
If desired. but swinging and rocking is
now forbidden, because it is thought the
gentle motion is disturbing TO the little
ones mentality.
for the perfect ventilation Of the nursery
there is no canopy on the wicker crib.
and there are no draperies of silk or lace
to keep out the fresh air and keep in that
which has been exhausted.
Her trousseau costs more than that of
most brides. be they fortunate or no-s2. 800
She received two hundred gifts in honor
of her first birthday. They were from tit
I led English and wealthy American
/ friends.
( Here is a partial list Of her wardrobe:
One dozen plain dresses or slips.
One dozen embroidered dresses or slips.
/ One dozen plain petticoats.
/ one dozen embroidered pettfcoats.
One dozen flannel petticoats
| One dozen coats.
! one dozen caps.
One dozen bootees.
| Twenty gold shield pins
( HeI best gowns cost 500. ana must ~
/ the gold pins have gems set in hooks
/ ard crevices afforded by their mechanism
/ Mrs. Curzon's iavorite gems are pearls.
/ Two days after the baby was born she
/ placed a string Of pearls about the in
/ fant's neck. The neck was 50 tiny that
! the string goes about Il comfortably
/ twice. When the baby neck takes or lar
( ger proportions the strand viii encircle
! It but once
! Il VIII be happy day FOR the young
( small for adouble strand. Since she
/ placed the string Of pearls about the
/ baby's neck 1t has never hen removed. I,
Is Ms. Curzon's only concession % the
/ suPers1ttons and aUraue - craze az he
/ majority OF mothers. She thinks me
! pearls may keep Of colds and other evils
! that hover - thickly in The air that
mites OF humaicy breathe.
At any rate she likes 70 see rhe pearls
about the baby's neck. and l. is the one
thing about the haby's carefully regulated
regimen 20 which she sd not give Tnuch
! Thought 1t was not unreasonable that
she shouid huuor her fancy for this bit
- concession to popular and harmless
superstition. she WHO is 50 Intelligent a
student OF motherhood
Mss CtIrzon might well second her
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