St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-03
HINTS FOR BABY CLOTHES.
With a Shop Garment for a Model,
TdooIc Aro Possible r.

With Shop Garment for Model,
Ideals Are Possible. e
To tell young mother how to make
baby's outfit is as ponderous task as
teaching stenography in six lessons. In
the first place,a woman must have some
knowledge of sewing, and in the next
it is essential that she know something
about the fitness of things. Babies, as
rule, are shapeless little creatures and
defy measurement. 1t is sufficient that
the garments do not bind at any place,
and SO long as they can be kept from
gathering up and smOthering the little
one they pass Judgment. 1t goes with.
out saying that they must be touched
with beauty and made of the fines
loom.
AS one object lesson is better to
class than a term of theoretic instruc-
ton, the maternal novice will find it adj
vantageous to go to dry goods shop to
buy set of baby clothes for models
The copy need not cost 50 all told, and
in the purchase the amateur has all the
suggestions needed to fashion really
beautiful outfit. Being designed in
cheap material the garments can be
ripped apart and used in place OF pat
terms. The attempt at decoration Will
serve for improvements in trimming and
the careless sewing be silent reproof
to the student. The number OF slips,
linen bands, Barrie coats, petit
coats and long dresses, the sup
ply of plaids, blankets. shawls, sacqueS,
socks and shirts will depend entirely on
the fancy of the mother. But like the
within of the modern bride who lays in
lot of underwear to get yellow in
frI1n &c nj
in stocking linen basket, hamper or
a bassinet, for the reason that the dot OF
humanity is a flower of rapid growth,
and given half chance will be ready
for short clothes before the real value OF
his trailing robes has been exhausted.
To be sure the embroidered hannelS
and company dresses will cut down but
for the sentimental aversion mother
has of deSecrating the garments OF her
first born by the application of steel OF
economy.
Given the model and one tour of in.
spection through an infants supply de-
partment of dry goods shop, any
needleWoman can collect trOusSeau at
less than a third of the shop cost.
When short clothes are donned it will
be found profitable to buy pongee
of India silk instead of the delicate
DOlnUaZlnoS, HlullS, UdtlSIo. dllu rIouCu
cambricS, so costly to trim and so
troublesome to laundry. The shop
keepers will make silk dress to Or
der for So, and allowing the same
amount for silk and lace to finish the
neck and sleeves, garment superior
to one that retails for $11 will be the
outcome. AS before stated, a shop
model may be had for sixty cents
or less to guide the amateur. 1t
does not pay to attempt to
make boys clothes. For 81 complete
suits are offered and boy of fourteen
may he rugged out from head to foot for
S11. There is a temptation on the part
of missionary mothers to cut down fathers
trousers, but unless she has served an
apprenticeship to tailor it is cruelty to
the child. A casual glance at the home
made pantaloons in male school would
be numerous but for the misery endured
by their respective occupants. In the
majority of cases both sides are cut on
the same principle, and the boys head
concealed it would be impossible to tell
whether he was going to school or conf
ing home. There are many ways of
economizing, but the small boy and his
growing brother should have the adj
vantage of male attire.