Show lilO HOW Il oU W QUEEN VICTORIA Vl OF OP iV SPAIN SPA IN NU NURSES HEIR lilER 4 I 1 OWN 0 WA ES BABl BA ES HP THE HE young oun Queen of or Spain has set nn an example to ther tho the r JL world as a mother not mother not only by having throe three i babies but by nursing thorn herself If King KinE Alfonso succeeds In e escaping the tho wave wa of off f revolution that threatens him it will be large largely on account ac account account ac- ac count of or the maternal and domestic virtues of his wife which furnish continual pleasure and edification to the whole population of oC Spain Queen Victoria has set sel at defiance tho the hidebound traditions tra tra- and that hamper the acts of queens and especially the acts act of ot the queens of oC Spain The rhe queen of oC Spain finds Cinus that It Is not a n hard ta task k I to nurse her own children but the greatest pleasure in life She takes the greatest pride in the fact that she nho cares are for them herself and she has Just been photographed photographed photo photo- In of oC La LI pushIng push- push graphed tho the gardens liar her palace Granja lug Ing the babies In their perambulators handling them thorn on onnor nor her knees and performing other uther maternal acts The Thc queen has hns three children The oldest Alfonso prince of ot tho the Asturias was born bom in 1907 the second Don Jaime Jalm In 1905 and tho the third Princess Beatrice in 1909 Another child was horn born dead last year car All th the three children are nrc practically babies at the same time and nd give hc the tho queen a great Areat deal to do lo The queen is particularly careful to bathe her babies tV with th her own han hands s As c everybody knows this Is a I most Important feature in tho the modern science of oC baby culture but its importance was not much mouth understood In Spain Spain Twice every lla day or more often if Ie tho the ho hot weather requires tho ho queen bathes bathe each ench of or her own babies She has studied how to do this from from tho the most inos to date English and American authorities on bah bab baby treatment Sho She han handles them in an nn expert manner BO so that their little backs and necks are arc never ne strained ns RS happens so o often when careless nursemaids hold babies balies The rho queen wa washes hes them all over o thoroughly thorough and dries them and unit powders them with equal care cairo so that the they may not In carl early life Ufe lay in the seed of ot skin disease and rheumatism Tho rho queen of oC course has plenty of ot nursemaids bu but they only help her The They fill till the bathtub hand her the ther soap and tow towels ls and so forth She fihe does the tho really Im Important Important Im- Im work r It used to be rigorous court etiquette In Spain that the he queen should leave lea th the care of her children entirely to others other Probably this Is why tho the Spanish royal roal children children chil chit dren shown in old paintings p g look Jook lifeless and hopeless II It was wag a historical custom to engage ens as nurse a n peasant woman from Catalonia a dark arlt husky person In Yer very picturesque national costume who was ryas entirely ignorant of hygiene ne cleanliness and the care of ot a delicate modern baby The queen ro resolutely refused to turn lf her r babies I 1 over o to women of oC this character and compromised with Hh I Ithe the ancient custom b by bye giving ln 1 a J. J full set of oC new clothes to ono one of oC the tho peasant candidates for Cor the Jhc position |