The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-04
Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
:. in a rare photo taken of him
at the age of l month.
ByNEA Service

at the age of l month.
By NEA Serrice
NEW YORK, March 4.-This is
L ' word picture of the Lind
bergh baby. and story through
which it is possible for The first
time to tell something of the home
life of the child with his
illustrious father and mother.
Little Charles Augustus is
healthy, normal child. Round,
fat and merry, the child had love-
ly golden curls until last summer,
when the curls were cut. He has
dark violet eyes like his mothers.
About the mouth he resembles his
father.
For a baby of 20 months he
shows great self-reliance. Even
at this early date he shows
evidence in his play of the ex-
tremely methodical ways of his
father.
Play-time being over, he care
fully puts away his toys himself.
And his nurse and the family
have been impressed by the way
in which he can fit bigger toys
together.
Charles Jr., has no fear of
animals He became especially
fond of playing with Skeet, Mrs.
Lindbergh's black Scottie. The
child's affection for the bouncing
puppy is thoroughly reciprocated.
Until late this winter the
~ baby remained at Englewood
at the home of his grandmother,
Mrs. Dwight Morrow, with his
nurSemaid.
Because young Charles had no
playmateS here, he attended
Elizabeth Morrow's day nursery
in Englewood, being driven there
daily by car.
Charles Jr. never before had
been taken to the new house on
the big estate except for week.
end visits. The kidnapping tragedy
occurred during the family's first
extended stay in the country.
Various Lindbergh baby rumors
have been circulated and the fam
lily knew about them. They re-
fused, however, to take any steps
to stop such gossiping.
It was proposed to Colonel
Lindbergh that he have a movie
made of the baby. He refused.
Lindbergh also declined to issue
any pictures of the baby beyond
those taken within a few weeks
after his birth.
He said he hated his own baby
pictures so much that he would
not subject his own child to the
same embarrassment.
1NDBERGH and Mrs. Lind
IL bergh stood firmly together
on the ground that since the baby
was theirs, they had the right
to enjoy him privately, and were
adamant in their refusals of the
importuning of newspapers and
magazines for stories or pictures
of the child.
Lindbergh declared in private
conversations that he wanted
Charles Jr. to grow up a perfectly
normal boy.
He said he did not feel this was
possible if he had a constant
spotlight of publicity. turned upon
him, even as baby.
The famous parents seemed to
be highly successful in starting
him out to be healthy, happy
boy. The baby is said never to
have been i'll single day in his
life, outside of the usual colds
which every child has, and here is
the daily diet to which the lusty
youngSter had graduated:
l quart of milk.
3 tablespoons cooked cereal.
2 tablespoons cooked vegetables.
1 egg yolk.
l baked potato.
tablespoons stewed fruit.
IA drops viosterol.
When Charles Jr. awakened in
the morning, he was given one
half cup Of orange juice. And as
soon as he stirred from his after
noon nap he was served half
cup OF prune juice.
THE servants Of the Lindbergh
4 household at Hopewell, in
addition to the child's two nurses.
are an English butler and his
wife. The latter couple applied
to the Lindberghs for employ
ment at the time they rented the
HopewelI place, before building
the present place.
Colonel Lindbergh asked the
applicant butler why he came to
him, when with such excellent
references from England, and
apparently such first-rate expe-
rience, he and his wife might get
swank job on Long Island.
The man replied that he and
his wife were not smart"
enough for the Long Island crowd.
To which Lindbergh answered,
that if they weren't stylish enough
for the Long Islanders, they were
probably just the couple he was
looking for.
They were employed, and be-.
tween them do all the work about
the Hopewell household.