Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-20
A BABY's TROUSSEAU.
ChiIdren's WardrObes Which Rival the Luxuries
of
New York World.

VI nOyhltys
New York World.
Not long ago Mrs Clarence Peck, who
belongs to the family of millionaire
Pecks of Chicago, sent an order to
Twenty third street dealer in infants
wear, for baby's trousseau. The only
specification contained in the letter was
to ''make it as nice as you can. And
that is precisely the way the tiny outfit
was put together. The first item listed
was a steamer trunk, which was recov-
cred, hinged with blackened iron and
lined with pale blue broadcloth redolent
with the perfume of sweet clover. Set
into the lid was plate for the monogram
and date, if desired. The services of an
artist were. secured who designed the pat
terms for the embroidery with which the
baby fannels, robes, wraps and linen
were decorated.
All the fine dimity was sent to the
nuns for the drawn work, for which they
are so famous. The embroidered and
lace goods for undershirts, bibs
and dresses were woven to order,
so that many of them were seam
less garments. Specialists were en-
ployed to make the dainty lace and silk
caps The little silk socks, shirts and
scarfs were woven to order, and in the
half dozen short dresses the famous
schools of embroidery were represented.
Some of the barrie coats and lap blankets
were so exquisitely worked that the pat
tern was the same on both sides, while
the fanciful way in which yokes were
stroked, gathered and drawn, and bands
OPEN hemmed, etched and darned, rep
resented days and weeks Of continuous
labor.
Everything was in sets of SIX pieces,
and not a single cotton article was in
GUIDED. Even the wash-rag was GRO
cheted with linen thread. Real Valen-
ciennes lace edged the little handker-
chiefs and the neck and sleeves of the
nightgown. The delicate lace that
>founced couple of dresses might have
been ripped from the under sleeves of a
court robe, and the very poetry OF needle
painting was shown in the work that
adorned and enriched a cape-coat of
white corded silk. Any one of the small
blankets designed to throw over the baby
basket or crib would be admired on an
altar stand or parlor table, and
few tray-cloths are as pretty as the
linen shams for baby's pillow, with their
delicate sprays of blue bells, woodbine
and trailing arbutus. In q blue cushion
were pins for generation-safety pins
and bib pins, handkerchief pins and
shoulder pins of gold mounting set with
pearl, turquois and coral. There was a
blue box of Dresden china for the infants
jewels and handkerchiefs, a basket of
gilded willow lined with blue and silver,
with pockets for brushes, boules and
hand glass, and the soap-holder, pow
der-box and sponge-oup were of jeweled
glass with the word ''baby'' in relieved
script. AS a whole, complete in detail
it was the most elaborate and expensive
trousseau ever sold in New York.
When Mrs. George Gould returned
from Europe she brought a baby 5 outfit
with her, the lace trimmings of which
are said to have cost $1,000. Many OF
the little garments are so daintily made
and the material is so delicate that COM
tact,wirh d washboard or the sclumsy
haHdssog a laundress, would end their
gl9py gaey are sent. to the scldaner's
xEk the proud youug m6fRHf, and the
bIll that the indulgent father has TO pay
every month would feed, ciothe aud
make fun for a seXtet of every day, all
around, freedom babies.