The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-04
JOURNAL WEDNESDAY

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 The jewels and plate of the up-to-
 date baby are so numerous that spe-
 cial vault is taken for them in the
 name of the lucky infant. Here also it's
 stocks and bonds or the valuable heir
 looms that have come to it are placed.
 Sometimes a girl baby gets a string of pearls before she is a week old, and
 sometimes one single pearl is placed in
 the satin case and then within the
 vault to be added to each year on the
 baby's birthday so that when she
 makes her debut later on, she will have
 the necklace that no debutante must
 be without. The baby's jewelry must
 remain in the vault until it grows old
 CT, and although child has heaps of
 studs and chains of rings and pins
 given 1t, 1t is an unwritten law that no
 diamonds or other stones must be worn
 by the properly cared for infant. | Chains and studs and pins, like mono- grams, are not used principally for the | reason that they hurt the baby when | it sleeps. Even lace and embroidery 1 must be of the very softest and downi- est variety, and some mothers banish
 pins and substitute silken tapes that tie the clothing in place.
 But the babies pins that are made
 up nowadays in silver and gold with
 protected points, are so small and light
 that they can be used with perfect
 comfort to the ruler of the nursery. Dozens of these, in assorted sizes, go in the outfit of smartly frocked child
 and are really the only jewelry allow
 ed 1t. Its mugs and plates, its pap
 bowls and spoons must all be slowed
 away until the baby is grown. Even
 its silver ''pusher," invented in Boston,
 is put away until the baby can take
 up the serious work of propelling it in-
 telligently. Rattles are retained for im- mediate use, for the reason that they are the only toy that young baby has any use for.
 The baby's toilet accessories are of quite as much importance as those of grownup beauty, Of course, they are diminutive and very pretty. The bath is of silver and the toilet things, the combs and brushes, the powder puffs and manicure implements are of ivory or pearl in preference to silver or gold. Every baby of any import ance has it's own weighing machine, sometimes of silver with a little cradle like arrangement in which the baby can rest while it's weight is being as- certained each day after the bath.
 The days are past when baby was tied in bundle and suspended from a scale, like a ham. The weighing ma chimes come in unpretentious nickel plate as we'll as in the silver which only very swell babies can afford. But the weight must be watched and in the case of an important baby it is record ed each day in the baby's diary, kept by the nurse and copied afterward by the secretary in the Baby's book.
 The Baby's book is an important thing and part of every proper outfit. designed, like a book plate, after the ideas of the infants mother. Often a flower will run through it's pages. It is beautiufully bound in white velvet or ivory with gold orna- ments, but prettier in white suede with corners and monogram in silver
 Within are the decorated pages with blanks for records of the baby's birth, | It's first tooth, it's gowns its gifts, it's Sometimes there are lit- l tie pen and ink sketches and all sorts l If souvenirs of the haby's progress are | faithfully. Newspaper clip | pings and accounts of it's christening, | photographs of friends and relatives, l the clergyman, the church, sometimes | If the christening scene itself, are | kept in these interesting pages.
 Another great event is the painting | If the baby's portrait, for it is quite he fashion now to engage great ar ist to come over the water when baby is born as well as. miniaturist who will place the small features on vory before they have lost their infant outlines. With the portrait the baby's mother is usually introduced, merely as m accessory to the baby in this in- tance. The miniatures often show the wo faces close beside each other.
 The babies trunk are very numer- us. They are not made in the usual ashion but are a succession of leather rays that fit closely together and are arried in one or two large trunks rhen used for travelling, an ocean trip r a resting spell at Lakewood or Lem x. Some babies with yachting pro- limities have all sorts of seagoing ogs, heavy blankets of pink and blue nd white plaids in which they are { trapped for turn on deck when the ( un Is shining. ( The long frocks of babyhood have one out of fashion. The christening 1be is the only long dress and it has, t course, it's accompanying cloak. The | is the first large function I l which the baby participates. It has I radually grown to be a social event I 1vitations are sent out and there are t overs, and fayors made specially for t le newly-named child.