The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-27

fashionable babies will become the proud
tenants of select suites in this new and
extraordinary institution. Day and
night nurseries for the poor we have
had with us for long time, but q
fashionable hotel exclusively for the
babies and young children of the rich
is indeed a novelty. Our hard driven
society women here who love to ape
everything that is new in English So
ciety may follow with a children's St.
Regis. The new London hotel is under
the control of the Nordland Institute
of Nurses and is furnished throughout
to suit the peculiar needs of its fastid-
iouS little inmates, whose parents, find
ing it necessary to run down to shoot
ing preserves or across to the CONT
nent, prefer a select place of this kind
to the doubtful care of their home
servants.
One suite of the baby's hotel is fur
nished throughout in white enamel
Others are in light oak. Each baby or
child has it's own student nurse in it's
own suite, and the prices run from $12
a week upward. No children over eight
years of age are accepted, but babies
in the feeding bottle stage may become
honored guests and have suites as high
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the age of the guest. There are tiny
chairs diminutive water jugs, small
washstands and all sorts of toys. Lon
don society has taken rather slowly TO
the idea, but already the hotel has
seventeen aristocratic guests.
That great old dowager, the Duchess
of Abercorn, whose beauty is worth
looking at today, has all England by
the ears on the question of diet and the
best known medical men are mixed in
the controversy. She insists that no
society woman, and, in fact, no man
who does manual work of the hardest
kind, ought to eat more than two meals
a day, and one of these should be
light repaSt. She has not eaten a mid
day meal in fifty years. which, she says,
accounts for her Vigor. This Christ
mas she gave her usual party to her
son, Lord Hamilton, and nine other
children, sixty grandchildren and eigh-
ty eight great grandchildren. She
does not see any harm in smoking a lit
tie or in drinking a little, and she
thinks none are more intemperate than
those Who insist on total abstinence.
There is a consuming curiosity in the
New York set which has not reached
the stage of insouciance where curios-
ity has become a fatigue to know what
is behind the snub of Mrs. Harold Nc
Cormick by Mrs. Potter Palmer. That
Mrs. Mccormick should have been
omitted from the list of patronesses of
the charity ball by inadvertence is, of
course, out of the question. That there
were too many expectant patronesseS is
not possible, because they are fewer
this year than before. Some of the new
ones are young matrons who never
| have had any place in what Chicago is
| pleased to call its society and who are
not conspicuous for culture, or even for
great wealth. There is something
back of it all that society here, as we'll
as in Chicago, would like to know ali
about. Mrs. Mccormick processes to
/ regard the omission of her name as of
no consequence, but her friends feel
/, deeply hurt. AS Mrs. Mccormick is the
| daughter of John D. Rockefeller the
! question of money cannot be the bar.
AS she is an accomplished musician,
a witty and entertaining conversation
alist and woman of broad views and
broader charities, her omission for any
| ethical reason is unexplainable-but
| she is not on the list.
| While no Official announcement
| has been made, if such a term may be
| employed, lndt MrS. FedFy VIII not dc-
company her husband in his next dash
for the north pole, it may be assumed
| that she will stay at home this time
not that she isn't wanted or is not a
hardy traveller, but because Lieut..
Peary is going to take chances this
| time that he never took before, and he
dosn't want his wife to share his hard
| ships. 1t is a pity in one respect, be-
| cause there are few women better fitted
| for such an experience. Mrs. Peary is
strong, courageous and determined.
Likewise, she is reasonable and willing
/ to take her share of the privation and
danger without asking any odds be-
| cause of her sex, and there are not
many men who can put up with as
much inconvenience and maintain as
| cheerful a demeanor as she. AS a gen.
eral rule men object to the presence of
woman after they get beyond the pale
of civilization and begin to grow crab
| bed and cross with each other, as they
always do when cut off from the world
for long period, but Mrs. Peary was
the most welcome member of the COM