Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-09-05
CLOTHES FOR BABY.
with Shop Garment for n Model, Moth
ers Can Easily Make Them.

ers Can Easily MAKE Ihem.
To tell a young mother how to make
a baby's outfit is as ponderous task as
teaching stenography in six lessons.
In the first place, woman must have
some knowledge of sewing and in the
next it is essential that she know some
thing about the fitness Of things. Ba-
bies, as q rule, are shapeless little crea-
lures and defy measurement. 1t is suf-
ficient 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 without saying that they must be
touched with beauty and made of the
finest loom.
AS one obiect-lesson is better to .
class than a term of theoretic instruc-
ton the maternal novice will find it ad-
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 a really
beautiful outfit. Being designed in
cheap material the garments can be
ripped apart and be 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, petticoats and
long dresses, the supply of plaids, blank
cts, shawls, sacques, socks and shirts
will depend entirely on the fancy of the
mother But like the within of tho mod
ern bride who lays in lot of under
wear to get yellow in trunk, there is a
good deal of nonsense in stocking a
linen basket, hamper or bassinet, for
the reason that the dot of humanity is a
flower of rapid growth, and given half a
chance will be ready for short clothes
before the real value of his trailing
robes has been exhausted.
To be sure the embroidered fannels
and company dresses will cut down but
for the sentimental aversion mother
has of desecrating the garments of hel
first born by the application of steel Oh
economy.
Given the model and one tour of inspec
ton through an infants supply depart
ment of dry-goods shop, any needle
woman can collect a trousseau at less
than a third of the shop cost Wher
short clothes are donned it will bt
found profitable to buy pongee or Indi;
silk instead of the delicate bombazines
mulls, batiste and French cambrics, Sc
costly to trim and so troublesome tt
laundry. The shop-koeper will make {
silk dress to order for SO, and allowing
the same amount for silk and lace t.
finish the neck and sleeves, garment
superior to one that retails for $ll viii
be the outcome. AS before stated, ;
shop model may be had for sixty cent?
or less to guide the amateur. 1t doe
not pay to attempt to make boys
clothes. For S4 complete suits are of
fered and boy of fourteen may be rig
ged out from head to foot for S11. Their,
is a temptation on the part of visionar,
mothers to cut down fathers trousers
but unless she has served an apprentice
ship to a tailor it is cruelty to the child
A casual glance at the home-mad
pantaloons in q male school would b
humorous but for the misery endured b.
their respective occupants. In tn
majority of cases both sides are cut o.
the same principle.-N. Y. World.