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Show MARRIED LIFE ON $80 A MONTH B i Mrs. Eva Leonard's Story of Married Life on $80 a Month H Fashions By Paragraphs Tiny Shoulder Cape on Late H Frocks Taffeta Pleatings for Trimming Detach- Hj able High Collars Recipe for Hungarian Stuffed Hl Goose Neck Household Hints. 1 "Really it is funny enough to print,' H Miss EIlBon Bat down, with her plump H arms foldod over her plump bosom, a H broad smile on her cheerful rotund H ' countenance. H "Tell me about It," said Molly as H she watched the caller swaying gently HJ back and forth. H "You see Olive has read all the H books on child life that she could get B hold of, and what she doesn't know Is 1 not in print," began the doctor's sis- H ter. "She told me before the baby H came that there was to be no spoiling B and humoring; life was to go on In H the home practically unchanged. H Of course she was perfectly willing H to allow time for bathing, feeding and H the care recommended for a perfectly H modern baby, but when not receiving H these attentions the little miss was H scheduled to lie in cool retirement by H herself either waking or sleeping. The H doctor was to be considered first, she H gravely informed me. Women madp h a mistake when they turned a house B upside down for a baby. It was H enough to drive a man to drink or his club according to his status in the B social scale, to have everything dis- H turbed with a crying baby." Miss H Ellison chuckled softly to herself. Hl " 'Isn't your well regulated baby go- ing to cry?' I asked, a wicked twinkle Hj In my eye. I'd brought up four, you H "'Oh, certainly' she replied prompt- H lv. 'a baby should cry as much as two H hours a day 'for lune: exercise ' H " 'And after that?' I asked H " 'Well, if a baby Is well and nor- Hj mal. it will not cry,' she answered H with conviction. I began to wonder if R T had not been a great bungler when H I recalled the long gusty nights and Hj wearing days I'd spent soothing mine H when they refused to be comforted H for hours together." .Miss Ellson srail- H ed reminiscently as she swayed back H and forth. H "Poor Olive, she was so sick, she H had not much strength left to inaug- ' urate reforms in baby management,' said Molly. ' "That house is like a bee hive," continued con-tinued Miss Ellson. "Mrs. Dupn goes around there with an expression on her face as if she had just viewed the remains and was all uncorked to cry at the funeral. Cora shut up her cottage cot-tage and came over to take charge of the housework. You know she kept house for the doctor before he was married and she thought she could help out that way the most. Then they got a little maid, a foreigner, who washed dishes and floors. She was a willing little thing, but if you took your eyes off of her she'd wash dishes with the floor cloth, or some equally outrageous thing, so one had to set apart one eye to watch her with. After Aft-er the trained nurse went away bo-fore bo-fore that no one was a free moral agent T was installed as nurse, but I was under orders. If I put the little mite over my shoulders and rocked her, Olive would say: "'Please don't rock her. dear; It addles the brain to be swayed and rocked.' " 'I always wondered what I'd done to the doctor to make him so flighty.' I said, grinning up at him. 'Now everything is explained ' lie tweaked my ear to reduce me to order. "As soon as the baby was fed I had to put her in a basket, because holding her would excite her and spoil her, so down she went. T was in a teachab'p moodand wanted to know what the latest In baby rearing rear-ing was When the poor little thing had yelled for ten or fifteen minutes Olive would say: "'Do ou think that is a temper cry? If she i? reallv in pain, of course ' Then I'd Dick her up. "Did that clock strike ten? I must go and bathe the baby. Good-bye. I'll tell jou the rest later. (To be continued ) |
