Saint Mary's beacon., 1904-08-18

BIZ nARY ASsARLE pAsrox.


| The merry month OF May usually
begins for small babies all sorts of
woes that are not ended until cool
October sets in.
Babies not only suffer more with
heat, than grown people do, but
they can't dress TO suit their own
comfort. they are swaddled AID
tucket IN and handled ell summer.
And besides they have no compen-
sations. II baby could rise up In
his crib on q scorching day and say
oh, we'll, what matter, always
make my best golf record i'm this
sort Of heat. and Sunday IN 10
ysckting and stay out of doors every
blessed second. and those stunning
new white fiannels demand this
weather 10 look really good form?
But there are no such comforting
reflections for baby when the ther-
mometer is so. The chances are
that he is taken out in q flannel cape
because his father took cold one
summer day at that age. Or every
bit of air is shut away for fear of a
draught.
IL he could only throw off res
traint and extra clothes and carol:
Who cares. I've just got to be CON-
Portable for once" as his father
does. Even when he is thinking
these things. kind hand bundles
him up and cuddles him lest he is
ill. when he is just warm and cross
and covered with prickly heat
and thinking wicked Kindergarten
i thoughts to cope with the terrible
situation.
No, there is no reason in the world
why babies should loye warm wealth
er. They learn to submit to better
grown up standards coupled with
baby Inconvenience. They are
petted too much and snubbed too
much. There is iast one chance for
a baby to find peace of mind and
creature comfort in the summer, and
that is through wise mother.
And fortunately for the American
baby he very often has q most in
telligent mother. It is fact that
the pretty. gay, attractive Ameri-
can girl often settles down into the
sweetest most sympathetic and
wisest OF mothers. She has sense
as well as sentiment about her ba-
bies, she is usually healthy and
athletic herself and she wants her
sons and daughters to grow up we'll
and beautiful. So she studies her
children insterd Of shutting them
up in nursery, and paying other
people 10 love them.
She makes the nursery the most
attractive wholesome place. She
knows that for baby to be healthy,
his room and clothes have got to be
hygienic. She sees TO it that the
room is regularly and thoroughly
disinfected and the clothes as well
as the room, and the baby himself
for that matter.
There are no draperies and wash.
able curtains and carpets and uphol-
stored chairs in the baby's room.
There is natural wood floor and
washable rugs. The furniture is
hard wood, and the muslin curtain
at the windows can be washed once
a week.
And when the wood work In clean
ed or the curtains done up or the
babies clothes washed, it is all done
in the most sanitary hygienic fash
ion with water in which borax has
been dissolved. two teaspoonfuls to
q gallon of water.
The bottles and dishes in the nur-
sery are washed in solution in the
same strength. In the modern nur-
sery the tube nursing bottle is new
er used, just the simplest bottle,
| with little black rubber nipple
cleansed careful always after using.
A great deal of chafing for the sum-
mer baby can be avoided IL the nap
kins are washed In q solution OF
borax water. They are also easier
TO clean in this way.
Outside of clean clothes and q
wholesome nursery always well
aired, very much of q baby comfort
in warm weather depends upon the
way he is dressed. Thin soft clothes
are necessary with little or no trim
ming. made short. and linen color
for tumbling about. Nothing is bet
ter for little baby than jumper.
and the ideal dress for q baby from
the time he can creep is soft jean
Ioveralls.
OF course there must be some white
frocks that baby may be seen there
in by possibly carping relations, but
even the white frocks should be
without puffs or ruffies or stiff en-
broidery, just q fine tuck or two and
some hand stitching. Then half hose
and thin slippers and short petit
coats, only the necessary underwear,