The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-12-05

and I've found by experience that this
claim is true to considerable extent.
Now, it may be that some mature ma
irons may think it presumptious for a
giddy young girl like me 10 try to teach
them anything. Nevertheless, offer q
little suggestion about baby cribs, thatI
learned from New York friend last
summer and if the sober old ladies
don't want to read it. they are quite well
come to skip it "a clothes basket"
said my friend. makes one of the incest
possible cribs for baby. All my chill
dren were raised in clothes basket and
a hammock, with never a cradle or crib.
1t was a large sized one (the basket /
mean, with handles at the ends. For
the first baby it was covered with blue
silesia and dotted swiss but when the
other babies came an old cretonne for
inside and out did very well. The sides
were padded with piece of old bed
quilt, and little mattress made for the
bottom. When baby fell asleep the bas-
ket was easily carried into uiet room,
which could be made dark.
think the idea is not a bad one.
Such a basket would do very nicely for
the babies who are just learning to sit
alone. The padding would save the lit
tie heads from many hard bump, and
also keep he little ones from feeling the
drafts that rush along the floor.
BY the way, have you noticed that
there ap ears to be q constantly increas-
ing taste for Greek and Roman features
in dress Fashionable bodices are be-
coming more and more loose and easy in
effect, if not in reality, by the artistic
arrangement of folds and graceful drap-
cries over the chest. There is much
less outlining of the figure, and the form
has more the appearance of being
draped than of being closely incased in
a cuirass corsage, and. although very
many of the newest bOdices are in real
ity glove fitting, this effect is made to
loose itself by the studied negIige ar
rangement of soft draperies.
Handkerchief dresses" too, have
been revived and come in the coarse,
rough cloths that have been in favor of
late. A yer, smart one that saw in
New York last week was composed of
handkerchiefs with a plain navy blue
center and borders of cardinal, dark
red, slender lines of maize and tint of
green. The borders came up the front,
meeting at the waist over an underpiece.
with border across the bottom, and all
the back was of the blue. The effect
struck me as very neat.
That reminds me that while in New
York, Madison Avenue friend ofmine
told me with the most serious air imag-
Unable, that the pet dogs this winter
that is, the smaller. short-haired ones,
wi wear more elaborate collars and
more gorgeous blankets than ever. The
girls who affect an English indifference
to wet weather and 90 out for their con-
stitution whether skies be fair or not
have provided blankets for their dogs,
to be used when it rains of feece-lined
water-proofcIoth, like the quarter-cloths
worn by high-bred carriage horses, with
heavy silver monograms of the owners
upon them. Rich, isn't it ? Too much
so for my constitution.
How man ever comes to marry such
girls, | don quite see but l confess
that if | were one of the sterner sex, I'd
rather take my chances on one of them
han take the risks the Turks do when
they marry. The most unsatisfactory
courtship of all must be the Turkish,
where the man is actually forbidden to
See the bride and must act through a
broker, generally an old woman, who
in erests herself for consideration, and
who can usually be bought by the one
who pays the most. Wren the knot is
lied, then for the first time the BRIDE
groom sees the brides face. Often the
result is a disappointment, and the
promised nymph or houri turns out to
be plain unattractive, ignorant and un-
companionable. Deliver me from the
Turkish mode. Heaven knows, if my
face is my fortune m a fit candidate
for Henry George anti-poverty club
or whatever you call it but if there's
girl who is quite ready to take her chan
ces ofmarriage in the plain, every day,
good old American Style, its-Dotty
Dimple, in Rutland Herald.