The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-31

new process IN very perfect manner. The
catalogue Of the Moss Engraving company,
corner Of Elm and Pearl streets, viii give you
many useful hints. 8. With reference to
By = W. Devoe Co., corner Of Fulton and
Willikm streets. They embrace all artis-
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Baby Clothes.
Once upon time, and not so very many
years ago. loving fingers prepared the long
alps and robes that constitute the first dress of
An infant; but all this is changed The fondest
mother has now but to make out list and
spend few hours In selecting the entire outfit,
when her baby is furnished with dainty gar
ments produced in quantities by professional
workers, whose skill and taste attain results
entirely satisfactory. In word, good mater
lal and trimmings made up into pretty gar
ments are for sale at prices so moderate that
It is oftentimes matter Of economy to buy
them Babies, as of old, are confined to white
dresses, made with high-necked yokes and
long sleeves, and composed Of English and
French nainsook, Lonsdale cambrics and
mulls. The simplest Of the little day slips are
made with yokes and trimmed with tucks, in.
sertion and embroidery Night slips are made
shorter and narrower than are the day Slips
favorite pattern consists of three box-plaits to
the waist in front and ono at the back The
garment known to the baby world as q robe Is
much more elaborate affair than is the slip
The entire front of a robe usually presents one
mass Of embroideries and insertions, being
finished about the bottom with a deep founce
OF insertions, tucks and embroideries to match
Color is introduced into an infants wardrobe
IN the dainty little wrappers, sacques and
blankets provided, as we'll as in the trimmings
Of baby basket aud crib By the way, whole
chapter might be written in description of cribs
and baskets, so elaborate have these articles
grown within the past few years. Six months
is the age conceded az the correct one for put
ting babies into short clothes, when comes
charming variety Of styles and patterns. The
English Mother Hubbard dress, with its tucked
yoke and skirt, finished with tucks and deep
embroidery, is q pleasing model, as are the
little dresses shirred to the yoke and again at
the knees, with and embroidered f1ounce below.
The little colored dresses worn with white
CAMP waists, introduced last summer, will be
H.
this season. Turkey red light pink and deli
cate shades of blue and lemon are favorite
colors for these dresses; tho Jokes and sleeves
being OF fine cambria, tucked and trimmed
with lace or embroidery. To match come little
sacks Of the exact shade of the dress. Wraps
ladies' cloth or Gilbert flannel; the preferred
colors being light pink and blue. There are
also very dressy cloaks Of surah, trimmed
with Moresque lace. For summer pique will
BE- material much used The Mother Hub
bard continues popular model. There is also
pretty style of loose sacque, modification
Of the Mother Hubbard.
What a Girl Does.
The Modern Girl TO leave dancing out of the
question, is still mothers orderly house to chaos
by her aesthetic tastes and her decorating. She
repaints the worn and japanned tea-waitera, and
the ter,pitchers teacups, pie-plates, and
ner fathers shaving mug. She belongs to an
amateur dramatic club and o reading Shak.
spearean association. She gets herself up az a
newitching gypsy or fairy for tableaux; takes
singing lessons from bogus "old master;"
makes one of q French class where they villify
each other IL foreign lang uage in very bad
grammar. She takes Turkish baths because
her limbs are round, and it will be sure to get
OUT II she goes down there to be sweated and
.11aa and kneaded in an atmosphere
that would parboil Hottentot. She
tells another girl who cannot afford it that she
should die if she did not take !hem She offers
TO play Tor everybody's benefit and calculates
on wearing q set Of costumes that will para
!yze the club. She takes swimming lessons at
the Natatorlum because she looks we'll in
close fitting blue flannel shirt and drawers, and
it is so nice to scream and have a big man rush
in and drag her out, and girls who swim well
are away above par at the seaside resorts. She
joins tho riding class because she sits her horse
we'll, and is one of the few women who can
wear riding lat and look pretty. She enconr-
ages the Tally-ho parties, because it smacks
of adventure to come smashing and rolling
home recklessly in a road-wagon, under a toot-
ing horn, and the snppers are delightful She be-
longs to the Flower mission and visits the sick
children and lonesome patients in the hospital.
because it is the thing to do, and down in her
heart she feels that her Creator demands some
thing from her once in while, and she enioys
dong good action which makes her sleep
better at mig ht She works like slave at
Cuu1Cn AeStlfulS duu uluueTS III DeW1lQerlng
costume and soubrette cap of white muslin,
declaring every moment that she will seer
tainly drop;" but she keeps up surprisingly
when more men come in with plenty of money
and very little notion of how it all went when
they go out She looks on the female who
comes in to cat as an infringement, because
she did not bargain to swell her little feet up
by trotting about with oyster patties and Char
lotte Russes for other women.
Screens.
For = sitting-room fire screen, silk, satin.
velvet or plush to match the prevailing color
is appropriate. Crimson silk, vandyked at the
bottom and edged by ivory-tinted lace, the
stitch being run in hem about six inches
higher, over which, to prevent it looking too
plain, may be worked crest monogram, or
spray Of flowers, in shades of gray and ivory.
or else the paint brush may be brought into
USE miniature window frame may be added
most economical style Of decoration is a
Venetian blind, which, with fresh coat of
paint will last many years, and may be opened
and closed as desired. A large sheet Of per-
forated zinc looks well worked in long stitches
in bright colored WOOL and then filed
Screens to s stand '0 in ~ the 'n' fender sGp
are very convenient The large Japanese me-
dsllions look quite handsome when mounted
on wire or wooden frame, fitted into a
weighted wooden stand, having gilt knobs
screwed in for feet The border round
screen, made Of velvet, stamped leather. or
else beading, such as is used for email pict-
ure frames, either Of dark wood or gilt glued
around; also few gilt or wooden spikes at the
top look we'll A child's wooden hoop. with a
delicate tint of pink or blue ssteen, puckersd
Cell Arl a.