Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1889 — “SHE” AND HER BABY. [ARTICLE]

“SHE” AND HER BABY.

low‘the Little Helpless Waif Gets Much I Attention. I Hot weather is the season when 1 lie mxious young mother is full of details Kout the management of the baby, the leth cutting, the diet, the air, the e.vr■se. It is then that the erstwhile giddy loung woman displays her latent woman-. K feeling and s!;ow3 how one touch of naKre him s the whole world kin. What* ■eKsummer resort the young mother ■ihtemplales it is the welfare of the baby Kat is the guidin.ir incentive and considKation. The inieiiigculyoungmotheracBaaints herself with all the lore of infant Nourishment. and prides herself <.n her ■nowledge of sanitation, and sometimes lakes an especial boast that she eschews ■arcgoric and that her baby sleeps with■it narcotics. While the society columns Frrate the frolics and festivities in which Ke pleasure-seekers at lake, mountain, or Ha forget the heat and dust of the cities, He ever new and ever old watch and Hard of the young mothers, fashionable or Hifashionabie, goes on, and the babies are Hade secure as far as natural love can Fard them from harm. This does not Fid a place in the society columns, but ■thout it society would indeed be a whited Fpulcbre. The young mother is more Fteresting and attractive than the bloom Fg damsel who is chiefly engrossed in Krself. Maternity reveals woman to ■rself and to man.