Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-16
ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER
CIIIIDREN's DRESSES ARE MADE IN MANY CLEVER LITTLE STYLES
WHICH ARE BOTH PLEASING AND ECONOMICAL

with the eelskin. Its pretty guimpe bod
ice was of white silk with transparent
lace yoke and long silk and lace sleeves.
1 have known Ann ever since she was
a baby, and l do not believe her ward
robe. multi-millionairess though she will
be, has cost as much from year to year,
as is lavished on many children whose
parents have an income of less than a
thousand dollars. Her charming simpli-
city is this autumn decidedly out OF
fashion.
A week or two ago there came to an
out-of-the-way, questionable Adlron-
dack resort the wife of a wealthy South
erner. bringing in her train a party OF
tWenty-four or five young people. The |,
hotel was tenanted otherwise by hunters
and mountaineers, among whom the laces
and silks of the newcomers created a SEN
sation. At breakfast the first morning
the Southern lady appeared. trailing
! across the rough, unfinished dining-room
a costly red and white brocade negligee.
greeting to her guests scattered at differ
and shaking her lace handkerchief in
ent tables.
A moment later there entered the lady S
daughter. a child of ten, attired IN pink
and white China silk, which was shirred
puffed. tucked, belaced and ribbon
trimmed-a fairy frock for a dance or a
garden party but so extraordinary among
~ aiu AcASoN
to provoke many an amused smile. Kiss
ing her mother in an affecting scene of
morning greetings, this little lady then
took her place at a distant table.
about her shoulders and partially bare
arms, a lace scarf, and leaning coquetish-
ly towards the young man who occupied
the next chair.
That the child was still a child and not
a woman of thirty in miniature, we had
abundant testimony five I'M later,
however, when in answer to some word
from the waiter, she sprang from her
seat, pounding the table and screaming,
Il will have it. 1 tell you! Don't you dare
say no to me. Fetch me this instant some
muskmelOn!"
Alas, to the nearest market where such
dainties were procurable was probably
thirty miles. Poor little overdressed mid
"A get! I would like to introduce her and
l many like her to Ann n AIMS sister
and brother.
f If the children do not grow up too
young and too affectedly, it is no fault
. of the fashions. This season only the
e mites under six escape the application to
t their costumes of the same whims thai
t govern grown-up dresses. Children un-
+ der ten are running about in eel-like
e draperies that make running difficult,
# and, instead of the picturesque, easy
blouses that have until this season beer
e SO proper, the tiny waists ave their higf
e neck bands with rear peaks or garrott
S ear flaps: and the furnishings of buttons
S vests revers, rows of velvet ribbons ant
the like are as unchildlike as possible
d! At ten years or younger the growing chile
is put into a close-fitting. corded or bonet
underwaist, SO that the dressmaker cal
II work upon her as tyrannically as upol
her mother.
In fabrics it is not an exaggeratiOn t.
say that no distinction is observed be
tween what is suitable for a child and TO
o a grown person. A school girl, her mothe
n. and her grandmother may nave dresse
.e from the same piece of goods: the pointe'
e Overskirt and the separate underslip O
If silk may be precisely similar, and tn
1t trimmings, if different, will be equal,
novel and costly.