The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-14

rrlty Things in The Wardrobe Of
Ruth'S Little Sister,

lous Creations in Lace, Silk and
FLANNEL to Enrich the Wardrobe Of
Rabv Ruth's Sister Presents For
the New Baby.
From the New York Herald
Mrs Cleveland made nearly all of the
os,. babv's outfit. Notwithstanding the
many social demands upon her time,
Mrs cleveland has a great deal of leisure
and she likes to devote it to her children.
She says that one reason she is never
t,rried is because she will not submit to
he onterviewed. - So she gains at least
m extra hour each day which public
women do not usually have to themselves
Every woman who has been through the
ordeal of filling a public position knows
that one of the most serious 'little foxes
IN steal away time is the interviewer.
INT Mrs Cleveland will have nothing to
IN with people who come to her for opin-
ions on this, that or the other thing. .
Baby Ruth's outfit was made by New
yorl, seamstress. Mrs. Cleveland was
then inexperienced and did not know
WHAT baby required. But this baby
has had all the advantages of Mrs. Cleve-
lands experience with Ruth, and has en-
ioyed the benefit of the fine materials,
sllrh as fannels, wooden goods, soft silks
and the like, which have been sent to
Mrs Cleveland to be made up into baby
clothes.
MRS. CLEVELAND PREFERS WHITE.
Like many other dainty women Mrs.
Cleveland s preference is for white, She
saws it shows at a glance whether it is
clean or sOiled, and, so, IL is more SANTA
nv than cOlOred goods. Besides that it is
the emblem of purity and is sweeter for
for babyho0d than cOlors can ever be.
Mrs Cleveland carries her preference
for white further than most women do.
The new baby has six outing clOaks
which are to do duty all the spring an d
summer until it is time to wear heavy
cloak next autumn. These outing cloaks
are all white and they are of six different
materials.
One is of fine white flannel, lined with
white silk, 1t falls in gathers from the
neck and has very full sleeves which are
finished with ruftle The neck of the
cloak has a silk rutt1e around thigh at the
back of the NECK and tapering to very
narrow frill under the chin. This is
done out of regard to the comfort of baby
neck.
The other white cloaks are respectively
of corded silk, eiderdOwu, broadcloth
satin and there is one of soft crepe cloth
lined with wool. They are all deliciously
soft and there in not one among them
y y
cloak which is in the outfit of every work.
a-day child You could take them all and
roll them into bundle small enough TO til
in a lady's hand satchel. And the bundle
would be as soft as a pillow of down.
This is one of Mrs. Cleveland's hobbies
She believes that a baby should be kept
warm in clouds of soft, f1eecy materials,
with nothing hard to hurt baby's SKIN
and ARthing rough to cruelty baby's
nerve& Woolen and soft silk take the
place of cambria and linen.
PRESENTS FOR THE BABY.
Abroad it is the custom to send the
wife of the ruler of the country gifts be-
fore the baby is born. 1t is etiquette to
do so. But in this country it is not so
When news of the Cleveland baby's ad
vent, or the prospective advent, was re-
ceived in Germany, England, France and
Spain many presents were immediately
sent to Mrs Cleveland, with letters beg
Elng that she would accept them with
best wishes for the new baby. Among
these presents were useful articles of all
KINDS, including nearly a hundred wards
of fine white silk to be made into little
morning slips. But by far the greater
number of gifts consisted of baby shoes.
Ihere We're five dozen pairs of closely
knitted ones made out of fine Berlin wool
SaXOny
On the other side they have a way of
knitting baby shoes so that they are
warm. The meshes are small and close
together. Mrs. Cleveland is partial to
this kind of knitted shoes, but she does
not like the kind that are made in this
country When American mothers GRO
chet baby shoes they make them very
loose and wholly unfit for baby to wear in
cold weather. Mrs. Cleveland'S expert
ehce with Baby Ruth during the first
winter OF her interesting babyhood con
Nnced her that the fifty pairs of Gro
cleted shoes which had been sent by
American friends, while they might be
pretty to look at, were far from being the
tulug for delicate child to wear.
Baby CleVeland's shoes, and there are
twenty pairs of them which have been
made at home are of fine white channels
SKIN, embroidered with white silk floss.
Inc s0es of the shoes are made like a
mule Doa-upturned all arOund-and the
Tops are put on with a buttonhole stitch
hg OF the floss For summer there are
70 De some silk ones, made after the same
pattern, and half a dozen pairs of "tennis
SHOES or shoes of tennis flannel.
MRS. CLEvELAND's NREpLEwoRK.
Mrs. Cleveland made most of her baby's
uuoertlOtheS with her own hands, al
though she employed a fine seamstress to
guI them out. They are very simple in
Uesign The body of the petticoats is cut
M JAe same piece as the skirts. Nearly
an are made in the fashion described for
sne cloaks, being shirred at the neck and
.alllhg IN one long sweep yard below
we baby's pink toes.
Inc making of such skirts was very
simple, Mrs. Cleveland had only to
Ealher them at the neck with a silk rib
Gon and hem them at the bottom, with a
fancy stitch in floss. Many of Mrs. Cleve-
i iapu schoolgirl friends in Buffalo, with
WON She still keeps up her acquaint-
r rlCe, wrote to her, begging the honor of
naSAlng the baby's dress Many OF these
VueIS Mrs. Cleveland accepted, knowing
eldO they came from kind hearts ami
BDaJed by the sweetest of motives. So
naoy Cleveland has the honor of owning
rousseau upon which a great many
PEOPLE have been at work during the long
s Says OF Lent and the busy days of early
81 %hen asked her preference in the style
VI Daby dresses, Mrs. Cleveland has in
ss,"L!doly replied with a sweet little note
1 TaS Ilg mat she had no preference, but
r TUulu value the work for the sake of the
fi on no matter how it might be fash
,,L; ne dresses which were made at the
e rllD9 mousse We're the work of an expert
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