The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-15
CLOTHING THE BABY.

What sort of clothing is best for the
infantf In our latitude, season and
climate govern the things it should
wear; but the tendency is to overdress,
especially when wealth and fashion try
to hang their wares on the infant as if
it were a rack for exhibition purposes.
Here are a few essentials for dress
ing the baby.
First, for all babies under six months
of age there should be a soft, white
flannel band for the abdomen, eight
inches wide and eighteen inches long:
This is quite as important for the in
FAINT as is the dress suit which the
evening dinner shall perhaps require of
him in later years of high life. This
band is for universal use in the hut
and the palace, for black and white,
in July and December. It makes for
good form, does the belly band of the
baby. The "claw hammer" on the
other hand is only for show and is in
good form only in a narrow circle into
which comparatively few babies ever
enter when grown up.
This baby binder should not be
hemmed at the edges, lest it crease and
chafe the baby's tender skin. When
he grows up, his hide may be so thick
that tight vests and other uncomfort-
able things do not matter, and he shall
sit at loaded banquet boards and stow
away inside his bullying waistcoat the
stuff that beckons govt and invites
high pressure in his blood vessels. Not
so the baby. He fills out the space
beneath his flannel binder with milk
clean, pasteurized, wholesome milk,
mothers milk preferably, if he is to
remain inside the zone of safety.
And then, come slips and petticoats
and other needful articles. In word,
these should be soft, of cotton or wool
mixed with cotton on silk to prevent
shrinkage, according to the purse.
Simplicity and smoothness are first
principles. Ample looseness of weave
and iooseness of fit in proportion. are
also in line with common sense; and it
is even becoming common practice to
Danish buttons and pins in favor of
tapes for fastening.
This is more than a commercial fact;
it is sensible. The tender skin should
not be irritated and scratched by sharp
points, humps or rough cloth. They
not only hurt, but educate bad temper,
encourage tears, squalls and noise. A
crying baby is an unwholesome item
in the family budget, like thistle in
a pansy bed. Soothe, comfort, enter
tain and train the baby to see and hear
and feel the bright side of the world
around him. He will get enough of the
other sort later. Proper clothes are a
great aid to this cheerful end.
An infant is highly sensitive to heat
and cold; therefore, the need of that
good officer, the mother or nurse, to
watch and guard against extremes and
sudden changes, such as occur in Chi
cago. So it is with the infant as with
its parents. The wise adult goes with
umbrella and outer wraps, prepared
for the sharp turns and surprises in
temperature which sneak past the
weather man. Have ready a warm
wrap and extra stockings for baby.
"Bye Baby Bunting" recalls the i'm
portance of putting the infant to sleep
so clothed that he cannot kick off the
covers at night and thus catch cold in
winter time. A baby bunting is the
sleeping bag, closed at the bottom, that
fills this bill of protection.
Finally, whatever the baby wears
should be clean, unblued and I'M
starched, and so changed as to insure
that cleanliness of habit that shall
mean neatness and sweetness in its
later years.
You may not successfully bride the
weather man to provide cool breeZes,
hut YOU may spend enough money to
buy clean milk and enough ice to keep
it cool and enough screens and swatters
to protect your baby from his sworn
enemy, the fly.
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