The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-06-12
SMALL CHILDREN.

Inst short clothes worn BY infants
he square yoke is preferred alike fol
white muslin. or colored gingham. and
0ambery dresses. The modified
Mother Hubbard dresses have the yok,
Of white tucked muslin, with perhap.
some insertion or brier stitching don.
IN rows with embroidery cotton; tn,
dress Of pale pink o. blue gingham i
attached to this yoke in French gathers
and bow of gingham strings is tiei
above the shoulders, or else shoulder
strap is cut in one with the bingham
dress. The sleeves are of white muslin
gathered to q tucked wristband, and
edged with scalloped frill; the neck
has a similar frill.
The white yoke and white sleeves
initiating a guimpe. or else the sepa.
rate guimpe waists. are ON the dresses
larger girls put on when leaving of
slips. The simplest of these have full
waists gathered to belt all around, OF
! else with only belt in front, while the
back IS in one piece with the skirt, snd
is shirred on drawing-strings, over
which sash of the gingham or Cham
berry is tied. The full round gathered
skirt Of two straight -breadths simply
hemmcd, or with some tucks Just aboye
the hem, completes the dresses with
belted waists.
The Gretchen or peasant dress n
made IS it was last year, With q low
pecked round waist to wear over !
f1impe. This waist has sometiyna. 8
v6st OF embroidery or of tucked mus
In or OF puffs OF muslin cot down ia
int and held there by three or foa,r
aDps Of the gingham or Chamberv 81
De dress wrought with white cotton Il
FER stitching; the backs nav each
have short SIDE form, or may be sim
gle pieces buttoned by small pearl but
tons. A gathered frill OF embroidery
forms the sleeves. and is around tho.
low neck, which is now cut only halt
low and round rather than square; the
frll on the neck should be sewed ON
Nth binding OF. facing 50 that the
4kht side will droop down on the bod
We. A sash of the goods two fingers
vide is sewed in the under-arm seam
and tied behind in larEe bow Nth
longer ends. The gathered ST. has
two straight widths hckd Or merely
hemmed. The newest Gretchen dresses
ue made more fanciful by cutting the
Naist with . slight point in front, and
ling an oFer-skirt which is merely .
kightxplne half the length of the
e elIrt gathersd b one with the
Ter 1T 10 che waist. To make
lsosthS Slnbf0ldered Chamberys are
led for the waist and over-skirt
- plain lower skirt. The
whito dresses made in this way are
y over embroidery, wide. scalloped
ounce with open patterns being used
Or the lower skirt and q narrower
aounce foi the upper skirt, while the
waist is made of the wide hounce, with
the seallopeds edge passing down the
hont each side Of the pointed vest A
long-looped bow of satin ribbon NAV
ntch up the over-skirt on the left side.
y there is-~e smaller square bow
lAced on the right shoulder. The
1oall0ped frill around the neck is two
lnches deep. The only white dresses
ut rival these are Of French nainsook |
<nAm0nted with many fucks in the
4kiEt and vest with rows of brier |
citching between. The guimpe under
!aist is tucked only 1t the top in yoke
<nape rs far as Is visible above the low
[nist of the dress.
W skirts Tor the smallest girls are |
do quite long, reaching to the
kles; those for girls of four or six |
IorS are shorter. yet these must fall |
= below the knees.
The summer novelties are etamine.