El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-04
THE BABY NEW.
Society's Latest Obligation to the
New Woman.

Society's Latest Obligation to the
New Woman.
There e much talk nowadays about
the new woman. her present and .
future, her plans and her aspirs' ions,
her lucas about man and how he should
be controlled. or the new baby, says
The New York Commercial Advertiser,
little has been he ard, ut least compa-
ratlvely and figuratlvely, and
yet that the new baby exists
there c IN be no doubt. The is pro-
badly some vital connection between
the develOpmen Mt of the new woman and
the appears nee of the new baby, but
without taking up the tficult Question
of scientific or gin AID phenomena, it
may be gu fficient, considering the i'm
portsnce of the subj c., to describe q
typical new baby during the first year
Vt is life.
The new baby is a solitary creature.
It lives and sleeps alone. 1t has q
nurse, but the nurse never bothers 1t,
except 10 give it food aud take it out
for air. The est of the time it lies in
u dark room, in its crib, and Kicks. In
that az both it and its parents may
dev lop their nerves in peace. The
new baby. if possible, is TO have 50
much nerve that it will be without
''nerves " It remains by itself, to
grow a. d reflect about the meaolng OF
darkness. 1t does IT LOAD It's brain
with superfuous ims ges. Ra,tl and
dolls are denied 1t; tuey are exciting.
Graudfnothers, with the habits of
handling, tickhng. and kigglllg, are
exclude ed from its presence. Inquire
ing visitors are told that the bAOy is
we'll, that it g aimed 4 ounces las. week
that the nurse 10 sober ana trust
worthy, aud q. far as can be ascertain
ID, never in 4ulges the baby ba.eiul
demand for expressi n.
Sometime e., as q concession to the
flesh, the mother, father or some near
and dear friend, even 40 uncle, is al
lowed to take the bAoys haod. This
the baby utches as q drowning man
srAsps Ut sol tAry PLANK in toe MUST
IF u vast sea. It no DIS on Rrlmly ana
chuckie, with soci Joy. It's PINK
face, bursting with suppressed nervous
etreug b, taaes on an EXPIRE slOn of
mimic des re to be coherent. 1t
emlts stentorian noises of happines !;
dlmly realizes what the social pos
sibilities Ut life are. But the oaby's
enthus asm IL It's own dea b, for wDen
the baby is particularly happy the
state of Its nerves Is particularly
DANGEROUS At the highest point Of
lis exp .nsiveness, toereiOre, the fingers
are tor n from the little grasp, the gas
Is turned out and the visitors leave
ia the m DIST of a large howl, which
reveP ber ate. piteOusly about the four
walls of the dark and lonesome room.
But the new baby has IA .ds good
enough use of its long hours of reaec-
zion to know III At Yelling can't aft CT
the situation. 1t trled that for several
copse cutive month, ard has now
gwen 1t up. Now it y. lis only wbeo
here's hope Left, which 10 willie the
visitors are leaving the room. When
they are ooce gone a1d the light Is
oul, the baby stOps, as If with the light
and the humanity the Lille of the lutte
one had gone o too. L. then passes
into elseD or into AZ open-eyed cond1-
ton Almost as uusen tieut 2. sleep, and
the system waits to be aroused fer an
otner brief period.
There Is nAught but the body, eays
psy chOlogy, that needs
70 Ne uked after. The mind and the
imayi i alton will take care of them
selves And, ince d, the new baby
physically is beautifully nouris ed
1t has the best food Ontain BILE, I'M
limited sleep and repOse for IN nd and
oooy. To tie ingenious or the iPnor
ant, the rash thought might O. cur to
wonder where 3D. young = baby got into
such an exhausted Condition of nerve
as to require so much q net, but the
thought would merely show the thir k
err una qua,nled " it'll the old doctriue
f original Flo, or the Dew theory of
We inh srit The nervous
fatigue OF our Parents, aud the new
paby Is rot TO be encouraged in social
and imaginative growth until it's in
he rite eakr of nerve fs obllter.
ated by large doses of darkness, sleep
and solitude.
And, after all, the new baby is not
un happy. Its brief moments Of social
expansion are of such vivid delight
tha at they pay psrhaos for whole heca-
tombs Vt mere blase soci' ty hours. 1t
is q possibility that il might use more
without becom ng the heroine of an
I bsen drama, but it is grateful for
What it gets. Besides, it will have
Il ne to be happy latter. when the &C
tlca' troubles of life begin to appear.
Think, too, of the great saving the
new baby is to our world! 1t is almost
1t requires. of course,
food, drink a nd clothing, but only the
minimum of sttendance, and while it
10 alone others may work or go about
their affairs. 1t cries little whats
the use, when no one ever comes when
IL Gals j. 40 'or unndPPy eAcePt JUST
AS the visitors are leaving, or
when its tooth aches: and go
it does not draw upon the nerv.
Gus trength of its sympathizinp
friends. Il IL not in the way, 10 a i
word, of the big business and pleasure
# life, and is get ing healthy and
Doesn't kick. WHAT greater blessing
for society could there be than the
new baby? BY it we have arriv
1T q method eOf populating the WORLD
with the least possible noise and at the
least poss BILE nerv US expenditure.
What the result Will be we don't Y. t |
know. Wha. kind of an adult the
new baby will b. come c~n not yet be
known, for the new baby is new in
1ead. We are row yet sure even of
" hat the new woman will b come, and !
IF the new bahy's future we are still |