Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1916 — GARMENTS FOR BABY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GARMENTS FOR BABY

COLLECTION THAT 13 BURE TO PLEASE ANY MOTHER., -J ‘ - ;• .;V - i r .; ' Almost Impossible That She Should Have Too Great a Supply on —Hand, So That It Will. Be Welcome. Can you think of any more acceptable , birthday gift to a mother than Just a useful and dainty collection of garments for the baby? There can Trercr-ftetoo -many of them.-for a eh-iM wears out its clothes so ‘quickly and outgrows them as fast, and it is a comfort for the neat mother to have a large wardrobe for her little one. When you plan making presents to a mother, don’t embroider a pincushion, or decorate a laundry bag, or add to her collection of whiskbroom holders —unless she is not near enough to you to be able to accept a more useful gift. Just think how you would like some pretty little garment for your Rttle-ohe and make one or a set for your friend. For a child of the age of one and a half to three years the best materials for making this wardrobe would be nainsook or cambric for the underwear; the same of fine linen for the dress and a nice quality 6t flannel for the little sacque. Pink and blue flannel are ihef avoritetintsfor little, ones’...

sacques, because white, while most fashionable for young children, often turns yellow when washed, and it is not always easy to clean white flannel with gasoline. Besides, dry cleaning is expensive. The dress is nothing more than the customary yoke and skirt for small children, but how attractive the bit of a yoke may be made with delicate embroidery and narrbw Valenciennes lace; or how sweet a little needlework looks upon a child's garment! There is so little to sew and the effect is so charming that one has all the fun of making a doll’s garment with the

added pleasure of knowing that it will be of service. ' The hnderwear should be just as fine and simple as possible, and only a narrow frill at the bottom is permissible, or an embroidery scallop, or a hemstitched ot featherstitcheff hem If you cannot embroider the edges of the flannel sacque-there are a number of small braids used for purposes of applique that look as well as lovely as hand embroidery.—Washington Star. . .

Child’s Dainty Dress.