Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — The Children. [ARTICLE]

The Children.

Children's dresses this season are even more than usually pretty. Bright plaids, gay colors and happy combinations are the rule, and the materials are particularly soft and delic te. Plaids of silk and worsted are of large pattern, and have a deep stripe corre?pond ng with ihe color selected for the plain mateiiaL Wnere, as h often the ease, the stripe is of a br.ght, vivid color, and tho body or the plaid is deep shading, a very handsome result is obtained. Dresses for smaller children have the kilted skirt and Jersey waist, with deep sash scarfs of plaid, while for older girls trimmed skirts- are in favor, with the becoming Jersey waist The Bayadere stripe is again in style, and is specially effective for misses’ skirts. Little girls of fl and 10 have skirts of plain material trimmed in plaid, and round jackets to match, finished off with bands of the mme plaid. Street costumes ore all in combinations—fine checked cheviots and larger plaids, or fine cloth and bright i-ilk facings and trimmings are much Liked. Illuminated beiges, with- plain, self-colored materials, mix exceedingly well Fancy trimmings Of every kind ore en irely out ci.' style; g tap and braid sere scarcely seeto, ribbons of good <iuailty and bright e»lc rI tn Hitting all the