Show BATHS FOR BABIES The Latest Fad is to Let Them Bask in the Sun IT IS CURIOUS BUT IT GOES Scene In a Progressive NurseryHealth us She Is Pursued According to the Latest Whim NIV YORK Jan 8 lSllrSpecial correspondence cor-respondence qf TUE HEUALDJThemcdern woman puts 01 a frock with a long stiff waist and huge irregularsleevo puffs reaching reach-ing down to her elbows and up to her ears and a straight narrow skirt that strains across her hips and clings about her ankles and lies in a quaint fanlike flare on the floor Then she assumes a high shouldered cape that is all collar and fringe of furry tails and a fiat morsel of a bonnet tIlted crazily forward and with two little velvet ho rns like tholeattributcd to Bacchus sticking stick-ing ou tin front over her hair So t1ttiredshe jupic picks up a carriage muff big enough to look for all the world like a huge kitten pms a longstemmed rose on top of it and before she goes out to hold the fad balance even sht trips all clothing of every description old her wee boys and girls She says she does it to give them freedom of limb I Shes a itde deliclOusly humorous individual How this new health notion originatea theres no telling Some women take to it as they do tl Buddhism and did to the mind L cure from intense conviction Othors adopt it because their thoughts hang suspended sus-pended like The swans down feather That stands upon the swell at lull of tide And neither war inclines They want a hobby and they arq as like amt no am-t to pitch on typhus fever because it chances to be fashionable in London You I could really imagine them yearning 1il e Rudyard ipling6 solth mrs to die de ca ntly in their beds of zjmotic disease iiI r so to do appeared at the moment to be the I proper thing 1 4 A t 4 i LF Ow I Fl l V f l f1 l d I i1 4 < 1t f t r f IfrRJI tr t j ib l tJ 1fJtJ ID jI > > = = t5 rJ w r2 t 11J i f Jl I 1i i SniKJ nAXDS This toddling and trotting of wellborn babies 111 pink and white nakedness has a strong claim as the first accredited fad of lSUl The little victims are not allowed as yet outside their own apartments and per L baps when one considers how many whims will bud and bloom ana die before warm weather it is assuming too much to imagine that this especial liower of fancy wIll not blush unseen and waste its sweetness muin the nursery air And yet it may live to reach the pavements who can tell It is supposed to be a purely invigorating and strengthing process making the babies like the Indian who is credited with the famous reply in the story all face and giving them an enviable roundness and shapeliness of limb Its efficacy in this respect depends particularly on tho abjuration of shoe and stockings There is a system of sun baths connected with it and which indeed may be regarded as its foundation stone That infants are being brought up in puns 71utllralflJIIS is being made known to the public pub-lic through the medium of breakfasts amid lunches A whim that cannot in some way be aired does not fulfill the first condition of a whim and so it chances that cards are beginning to go fluttering about in certain circles which bear or bore in one instance in the corner where one would naturally expect To meet Mrs So and So the mysterious inscrIption To be present at the sun bath of JI07lSfCllrS Ics Bcbc8 The breakfast to which allusion is made was probobly the most elaborate that has been given The ten ladies who were bidden bid-den sat about a table which differed in few particulars from the dainty courses which modish women pride themselves on serving serv-ing save that the low crystal bowl which held ferns held also scores and fifties of the strange baby orchids At eacb plate lay a small faintly fragrant table sachet done up in satin painted with baby cupids and in the neck of it was thrust a cluster of the weird orchids bolding out In view their tiny white infants Just as the fruit was served the door opened and there appeared ap-peared on the threshold twin lads probably under threl who wore short black velvet skirts and bits of round velvet jackets with great puffs of filmy white lawn seeming to bridge the gap between The urchins had brown curls and particularly bright browne brown-e e3 and as they circled about the table they paused a minute with grave shyness by each guest in turn to lisp quaint and L broken phrasesnot without evidences of previous disciplineof baby greeting When this odd little German ceremony giving nowadays the last touch of smartness smart-ness was finished rollsfcur lesBcbcs disappeared disap-peared and curiosity rose in acrcsendo I until the hostess left her seat and camIv t1S one on the brink of a great coup Invited the little procession to follow her to the nursery The big sunny room papered in pink and white with scenes from Alice in Wonder land had for occupants a crackling fire and two puffy pink cushions lying in front of the great bay window To these there entered aStor a minutes pause during which one observed the stage setting toy furnitureribboned baby chairs und low round pinkenameled tables and white fur rugs and water color sketches of rosy faces framed in pinl and goldtwo whitecaped and apronid nurses who advanced with even pace and laid upon the cushions in the full flood of sunsbineJlonsEcurs les Bcbcs Jf Tun DADY VICTnr Pinker aganst the pink background kicked and wriggled two little human balls unclad except for tissue paper caps that covered the flossy heads and shielded the eyes There was a gasp and n gurgle from every mothers daughter as four fat fists and four heels wildly waved i Nannette and Maria said the hostess you may go on annetto and Maria knelt by the pink urchins and rubbed them and rolled them and pinched them and made them scarlet with laughter and massage Nannette and Maria arc they warm 1 Yes Madame I Archie and Reggio up With you 1 J 1he 1iW rugglcc to tM feet Imd j stood tubby toddling youths obedient blinking Nannette and Maria start tho ball I The two nurses produced a small black rubber football and threw it to the two urchins ur-chins who understood the programme for presently they sent it bobbing against the ceiling They kicked it and tossed it and tumbled over it all the time preserving the most comical gravity of demeanor Since Nannette and Maria bad taken hands off them they had not smiled Nannette and Maria the measures Archie and Regglo how well can you standl Tha nurses brought out two oak and silver sil-ver sticks and the twins solemnly walked up to them touching to improised per pondiculars their noses their chest and the tips of their toes Their round stomachs they drew resolutely in Then ill soldier like attitudes heads erect they marched to and fro in the sunshine Agchic and Reggie breathe I The twins stood hcro the sun wag strongest and irew air into their lungs They still held their stomachs determinedly hollowed but swelled out their chests mirthless but mirth plooking They lay down again on their cuuhions and slowly and with absorbed countenances lifted their dImpled legs to form waverirg right angles with their bodies Then Nannette and Maria held their feevand they lifted their heads and shoulders till after repeated tumblingsbak they were in sitting positions posi-tions Algernon the pug took a paw in the romp and the guests blessed him He gave thorn a chanco to laugh hysterically Maria and Nannette the beanbags I The twins threw thcm uta board with holes in it tultinq tile pose of chubby cupids The nurses fetcbed and carried the ammunition ammu-nition Archie and Reggie ar3 really die tressed explained the radlllnt hostess when they have to ba dressed for their run in on the I1venuoThat is sufficient Nannetto and larjaDont you know how the Greek youths and maidens got the l figures by wont without clotbing in the gymnasia f Archie and Reggio practico several sev-eral hours a day H V J 1 r j Ii 1P l51 Ir i 1 a T JJI 1 Ptr ofi r 1t 1 I tr j f 0 ib ko = o d4 I k nOUGII AND TulfnrE rux It is i a part of the newly fashionable I theory that garments impede the circula til1 of the blood and they are blamed for keeping off the sunshine It is required of the disciple to be ashamed of the white I look of the covered skin It is likened to a potato sprout bleached in 11 collar Children Chil-dren are to play in the daylight with unfettered un-fettered limbs and moreover on as lou occasions as possible are they to lear shoes For going about the house soft moccasins are to be substituted to keep the feet undeformed Sometime when the nursery hasnt a big window the sunbath is arranged in the consjrvntol It males a romantic some might think a rheumatic combinatIOn the child amid the flowers A young architect in the city has a commission com-mission to arrange the top floor of a new anti somewhat pretentious house with special spe-cial sunbath facilities Two rooms are givezi to the children had one of these ha Sit I S-it skylight lile a photograpllers set in the roof and IS to bofitted a nursery gymnasium gym-nasium The new ida reduces the inequality ine-quality between the sdxes in the matter of pockets and one can1mngino the urchin of the futurePlinfulJ seeking an answer to the question that puzzled that bad boy of Thomas Bailey Aldrich when he was alighted a-lighted being and mooned over the tombstone tomb-stone cherubs svoudering where they kept their marbles and their string The funniest hmpsning of which I hay heard under the ilew dispensation was the adventure of a small girl who escaped from her nurse andwandered down stairs in ery full dress into the thick of a New Years reception with the < < aIm announcement announce-ment Sun gone mo want macaoon Tho people who are making most out of tho fad are the amateaur photographers who aro said to be getting fine cherub c1le ions by lying low during the progress oi tho sunbath mysterious Next in point 01 advantage are the coal dealers who warm the nurseries ELIZA PUTNAM HCATOS |