The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-21

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he cares for most He has two acres
Of ground devoted to fruit trees and
another acre Is given over TO berries.
Now every morning the governess
whose duty it is to oversee everything
| consuits with the cook as to BABY
| Browns bill OF fare. The consultation
is long and careful. for since the day
of his birth every article of food that
he has ever eaten has been weighed
| At Cacn meal he must consume just
50 much, neither more nor less, just
SO much milk. so much meat, so much
! rice. farina, arrOwTOOt or whatever II
I may be, SO much broth or soup and SC
| much fruit puice.
1 At tie end OF each day he must have
eaten a certain amount of food For
/ this the cook is responsible to the
/ trained nurses, the trained nurses to
! the goverHess and the governess to the
/ SPECIAL physician.
. If he has failed to eat, why2 Who is
] to be blamed The gardener, the
! farmer, the butcher, the cOOk-who
| Every detail of Baby Browns life is
/ looked into, from the airing of his
] mattresses to the temperature Of his
/ BATH Something is wrOng2 Every
J one of John Nicholas Brown 5 relatives
/ is held responsible.
He is weighed night and morning on
! his own special gold mounted scales.
/ lie himself is as much interested in TIE
/ proceeding as any one of the house
4 hold. though. of course he does not
| quite know why every one looks so
| pleased and happy when the hand
! switches around to IS pounds.
/ Shortly after this million dollar
/ baby came into the world his special
| physician gave out certain weights and
measures as the correct ones for him
TO live up to. His entire average may
be said TO tuTn upon them. His trained
nurses and his governess and his valet
and his maids know quite well that
their positions depend largely upon the
+ balancing Of his scales.
Soon after his birth il was deter
mined that he must weigh from TWEEN
! y TO twenty-one pounds, at the end Of
/ his first year, about tWenty-six
/ pounds at the end Of his second; from
1 thirty-One TO thirty-tWO pounds at the
/ end of his third; and when he should
| be four years old he must weigh thir-
/ ty-five pounds.
[ That weight Baby Brown has at
I tanned, and each member of his house
/ hold hatters herself that she has been
instrumental in bringing it about.
There Is, for instance, the maid, who,
under the direction OF the doctor, the
1 Soverness and a trained nurse. looks
/ out for his bath.
! OF all his batktubs he prefers the
whIte swan, that has a beautiful, long
] yellow beak, out of which the water
3 comes So the swan is prepared in his
/ bathroom, where the sunlight IS re-
/ fiected in a wall of mirrors and where
I the temperature is never below SIS de-
( greets, and never above IS degrees. F.
4 First the daintiest of linen sheets, so
| fine that one might fancy it to be
/ woven OF silk threads, is laid smooth
/ " at the bottom of the tub and over
the sides This Is softer for the body
/ than the touch Of porcelain. Then the
water is heated to exactly IS degrees
Z. and perfumed with a violet extract
made from the fresh flowers specially
! for this baby Croesus.
Next to the big swan there is a lit
! tie baby swan, into which he steps from
ms big bath, and there he IS sponged
OF with cold water that runs from SO
degrees TO 80 degrees F.
he is dried with his own special
moncgramed towels, that are of the
finest damask. Night and morning he
IS rubbed with cocoaDUt oil and busted
on with a violet powder from a gold
kpOWder box. on which his initials are
monogramed in tiny diamonds. On the
lid OF the box there is a medallion of a
dear little baby with golden hair and
blue eyes that smiles back at him. And
on his brushes and bottles there are
other kinds, but always pretty babies
that make MIN smile
His kindergarten gOVeTness has sup
I erintended the furnishing Of his vari-
I Gus suites Of rooms with an ingenuity
| that looks out for his mental as well
as his physical development.
The walls of his night nursery are
done IN flowers, with friezes and dados
| Of their leaves. There is nothing ex-
traordinary- about this except that the
| flowers are executed by the hand of an
artist The really extraordinary thing
is that this wall paper as all the
others in his apartments is constantly
changed, changed from month 10 month
as his mind develops. One month this
BABY may wake and find himself in a
/ bower OF roses pink as his cheeks; he
! goes TO spend a few weeks at is PrOvz
idence home, where he finds himself
in field Of daffOdils; he returns to
| New York or Newport and he stretches
out his arms to the gorgeous honey
suckle vines.
/ In his day nursery. from the ceiling
to the floor, are splendid paintings OF
| every animal known to the hunter
1 done in characteristic attitudes. On
| the floor OF this great room there are
1 piles and piles Of toys. mostly mechaa-
lcaL There are, for instance, dolls
! dressed in TIE costumes of all nations
that walk and cry: there are domestic
animals and wild animals made mar
Veilously; there are peaceful cows that
Baby Brown may peacefully milk; he
/ has miniature chicken coops. where he
plays that he is Farmer Martin, and
stables and doll houses. he has whole
| armies OF soldiers that may be wound
up TO walk.
Now all these toys have been changed
by his governess. removed and others
substituted in their place ever since the
early days when he lay in a motner-of-
pearl crib draped in real lace, with a
gold rattle set with diamonds cIasped
in one chubby hand
Like every bright child that ever
lived he asks questions about every
thing. and there is always something
new TO ask about. and his governess
is there 10 tell him in the Simplest way
all he wants to know.
AS he grew from rattle and rings to
cups and spoons. so HIS toys and wall
papers advanced ard his library grew.
Yes, Baby Brown has the most COM
plete child's library in America In it
is every book worth reading that was
ever written for child. The bindings
OF all these books are in the brightest
colOrs and stamped in gold with the
ten-million- dollar baby's initials OF
course. he hasn't read these books yet
or even been told about them. but they
are being collected gradually, and he
knows that they are all his
So far. Mother Goose has been his IA
vorite literature. and the walls of his
library above his little low bookcases
are filed with scenes from that immor-
tai work. AS his fancy changes these
pictures viii be changed.
It is considered very important that
this baby should eat slowly and masti-
cate his food Thoroughly and as ii Is