Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — Dainty Ribbons for Wee Wearers [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dainty Ribbons for Wee Wearers

RIBBON departments are gay with every hue and tint and shade of color under the sun and with all sorts of dainty accessories for womankind, from babyhood to old age. There are things purely ornamental and there are things useful and ornamental. The latter two qualities combined are always successful, and experience shows that we cherißh a love for the things which are ornamental, whether 1 they are useful or not. A lot of things have been designed for the little infant. These include armlets, that is, little garters for the sleeves, small rosettes, to be fastened with the tiniest. of safety pins to baby’s dress, and splendid bows with which the robe or blanket is decked out. Beside these furblshlngs for the little Infant there are any number of dainty furbelows made for the tiny girl. A blanket-bow is shown in the picture, made of pink satin ribbon four and one-half to five inches wide. It consists of nine loops, each one knotted at the top. Each loop is about seven, inches deep, after the knot is tied. They are tacked together at the center, where the ends are tied with a single knot. One of the ends is cut half the length of the other and both are trimmed in a diagonal line. The little armlets are made of a narrow satin ribbon in either light pink or blue. They make' a very acceptable present for the mother of the newly-arrived baby. The sleeves, in the clothes for little infants, are cut longer than the child’s arm in order to accommodate its rapid growth. These little armlets hold the sleeves up and add a charming little decoration to the baby’s dress at the same time. They are made by shirring ribbon over flat elastic bands and are finished with full rosettes made of knotted loops of the ribbon. The loops are each an inch and a half deep. When the baby girl has grown old enough to need something to hold her hair in place, a hair band like that shown In the picture marks the beginning of her use of hair ribbons This is made, like the armlet, of a narrow satin ribbon. Ribbons an Inch or a little less in width answer the purpose better than others.

4 For the hair band one , must measure the little one’s head and make a circlet iof flat elastic, just long enough to hold the hair in placet Half of this

band, that is, that portion which is to go over the top of the head, is covered with ribbon shirred on. The remainder is left uncovered, as it goes under the back hair. At each side, just above the ears, full rosettes are, made of the ribbon in the same way as described for the armlets, except that the loops are about two and a half inches deep.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.