The Portland daily press., 1890-08-28
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 2s.
DRESSES FOR the YOUNG.
Olive Parper's Letter on the FASH
Ions of the Time.
Correspondence Of the prass

correspondence OF the Press.l
NEW YORK, August 27.-"Come into the
garden, Maud" says the big sister in a
dainty gown of m&uve yelling, with a
short polonaise of mordore velvet, and. a
nat OF the velvet trimmed with mapve
plumes, and she said this original thing
to Maud, who wears a dress of self col
ored pongee, trimmcd with sleeves and
bands of striped velvet, brown and ecru
color. The waist CT this dress is made
in blouse style, and the skirt is simply
draped in front and shirred in the back.
The little sister, it is to be presumed,
has been there, since she carries bunch
of roses, and she looks like a rosebud
herself, with her pretty white lace and
pink surah dress. Her cunning little
bonnet of surah has ruffle of lace.
which makes her pretty dimpled face
look like half blown rose, and all three
belong to the garden of girls the poet
speaks of.
The styles for children are very plain
and very sensible, and they require but
little garniture. The palmer they are
the happier also are the little wearers,
for they can play, run and jump with
out restraint in the garments as now
made.
Sailor suits are just as popular as ever,
and vary little from those first invented
with the sole difference that they are
now frequently made in other colors
than blue and white. Gray, brown, red
and even green and plum are all made
in the style, which is sufficiently dis
tinctive to make it always a sailor suit.
Boys and girls wear the same kind of a
dress when it is 'sailor" until the boy
leaves off his dlts for the supreme dig
nifty of pantaloons, that ineffa5le pleas
ure that his unfortunate sister can never
attain.
But sisters can wear dainty and deli
cate little gowns made of pale green
China silk, Powered all over with beau
tiful buds and blossoms, with the entire
front of futed China crepe, white, as
snow, with the cunningest little rosettes
and aparasol to match--a real parasol
Now a boy never carries a parasol,
though he does sometimes get rusty
and half worn umbrella that his pa
thinks not nice enough for himself, so
the girl after all has some few privi-
leges and crumbs of comfort, and she
has the sweet satisfaction of seeing her
little brother get red in the face and
swell up with angry tears when some
one calls him girl before his mother
has brought herself to the point of sac
rifce in cutting off his long curls.
For children there are really no dis
tinctive materials or fabrics. Little girls
wear tweed cheviot, cashmere, silk velu-
tina, plaids and pattern serges, and in
fact just what their mothers wear. In
deed sensible mothers now in buying a
gown get from half yard to yard and
a half more material than it requires to
make one for themselves, and this, with
the pieces always left over, makes a dress
for her little daughter.
In these days few ladies buy flimsy
material, SO that after a mother has
worn dress for several seasons thereis |
always enough left of it to make over
into suit for quite good sized girl,
and if it is properly cleaned and judi
ciously trimmed, no matter how old good |
material is, it will look like new, and
last a growing girl until she has really
outgrown 1t. All wool cloth can be fear
lessly washed in bark OF even in soap
suds if the following rules are observed:
First, the water must be pretty warm,
but not hot, and very soapy; but no soap
should be rubbed upon the material,
and it should be rinsed in warm water
in which there is little soap, some blu
ing and ammonia The proportion of
this should be greater or less according
to whether the cloth was greasy or not.
The goods should be passed through a
wringer and partly dried in the shade,
and then ironed on the wrong side. OF
course the garment should have been
ripped apart and all the threads taken
out. Any all wool goods will look just
as well as new.
Silks of the soft, undressed kinds will
wash, but must be dried in the shade
and rubbed smooth with the hand on a
fat surface while wet, and left to dry
so. They require no ironing. Hot irons
injure them.