Here she had her daily bath, and slept and crowed at the lamp and the pictures on the wall, and grew bigger and whiter every day. How she did enjoy these baths after she got to be a little older, when her mother closed every door in the room, put an oil stove inside the bed curtains which were drawn close, then sponged the baby with warm water, and after she was dry let her roll for a little while in the pile of soft warm bear and deer skins on the bed.
“A Little Snow-White Baby Girl with Big Blue Eyes”
Her Eskimo friends kept coming to see her whenever they could, though they did not always come in to the room, as they were not very clean.
After a long, long time the terrible night began to draw to an end, and every clear day at noon there was an hour or two of daylight.
Bed on which Baby Lived
It was decided that when the sun did return, no matter how cold it might be, baby was to go out every day, so one of the Eskimo women was busy making a little Eskimo suit for her, all of furs.
There were only two pieces in this suit,—a little hooded coat, and a pair of little trousers and boots in one.