Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — THE NEW BABY’S OUTFIT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEW BABY’S OUTFIT.

Something About the Clothes of the Uttle One .at the White House. It will probably interest most mothers to know that Mrs. Cleveland made almost all of her latest

born daughter’s outfit herself. What if she is the President’s wife? Why shouldn’t she exercise the same .privilege that f every mother does, and sew all her sweet fancies and all her supreme happiness into the dainty little wardrobe? Surely, i f love has a work that may be called

its very own, this is it. Baby Ruth’s outfit was made by a New York seamstress. Mrs. Cleveland was then inexperienced and did not know what a baby required. But this baby has had all the advantages of Mrs. Cleveland’s experience with Ruth, and has enjoyed the benefit of the fine materials, such as flannels, woolen goods, soft silks and the like, which have been sent to Mrs. Cleveland to be made up into baby clothes. In this outfit there are outing cloaks all white, and they are of six different materials. One is of fine

white flannel, lined with white silk. It falls in gathers from the neck, and it has very full sleeves, which are finished with a silk ruffle. The neck of the cloak has a silk ruffle around i t

high at the back of the neck and tapering to a very narrow frill under the chin. This is done out of regard to the comfort of baby’s neck. The other white cloaks are respectively of corded silk, eider down, broadcloth, satin, and there is one soft crepe cloth lined with wool. They are all deliciously soft, and there is not one among them which weighs as heavy as the ordinary cloak which is in the outfit of every work-a-day child. You could take them all and roll them into a bundle, small enough to flt in a lady’s hand satchel. And the bundle would be as soft as a pillow of down. This is one of Mrs. Cleveland’s hobbies. She believes that a baby should be kept warm in clouds of soft, fleecy materials, with nothing hard to hurt baby’s skin, and nothing rough to crucify baby’s nerves. Woolen and soft silk take the place of cambric and linen.

THE CHRISTENING ROBE.

BABY’S BED.