Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-27

kept in white until she begins to break
away from nirse and learn the delights OF
mud pies; after that, perforce. colored
frocks take the place of the white for
&c cd part of the time unless one wants to
have little doll about the house instead of
healthy, happy. unconscious little girl
Killed skirts CT this winter usually have
a wide box pIeat in front, and are often
wCrn with short coats, with turnover
lapels. The coat is long enough to come
three or four inches below the waist line.
ard the little girls 70" when these
dresses are designed the ki;ted skirt usually
has a little waist sewed to il and then the
coat may be taken off.
Elaborate Coats and Hats.
If there must be elaborate coats and hats
for children nothing is prettier than a plush
or velvet coat of a dark green or of the
terra Gotta and brick red shades so often
seen in Greenaxay pictures. These coats
are straight and full, buttoning on the left
side, and have turnover lapels with little
rich-looking heavy lace on them, and inside
of that a shield of the velvet perfectly
rlain and above that a straight collar.
which can also be covered with lace If one
wishes, but which is beg left plain. An
elaborate little hornet of the same velvet
or plush, or of satin. is usually worn with
these coats. There is nothing newer in the
way of wraps IN the juvenile world than
these plain little coats of rich material,
with their accompanying bonncts.
The Russian blouse, which has become
of late only slight pouch to the front of
a bodice. is SO serviceable in childrens
re aim that it is to be hoped its reign will
be a long one. No form of vast is so
becoming to them one which blouses in
front, and over the shoulders has lapels,
revers. perhaps a bolero, very often
guimpe and usually straight collar, which
is not very high.
To Wear to School.
Almost all school dresses are made with
a guimpe and for these guimpes. whether
they are only a yoke or are yoke and
sleeves combined, it is best to have
waistcoat pattern. and have all guimpes,
whether of washable material or of silk
or wool, made like little waists If they
are plainly made it will not add much to
the laundry work if they happen to be-
long to the cottons, and 1t keeps them in
shape much better than having only a
strap to hold them under the arms
The spring frocks for little girls have
some sailor waists among Them and they
are always extremely becoming and serv-
iceable. A dark blue frock of light weight
serge among the spring models has box
pleated skirt. not box pleat in the back
alone, but all around are the pleats, mar
row at the top and spriuging out toward
the short hem. The waist is the real
sailor effect, bloused back and front, with
deep collar piped with red, the little
chemisette or, in this case waistcoat, as
it shows all the way down the front is also
of red. A soft red silk sailor knot holds
the collar together, only little above the
waist line.
Simplicity and Cleanliness.
Now that children also wear warm union
suits and are so very comfortably provided
for in the matter of underwear with much
less bulkiness than formerly some mothers
dress their children in cotton gabrielle or
sleeveless dresses all winter long, compiet-
ing them with white yokes and sleeves
which are made of pretty yet plain ma
terial and can be put in the tub as often as
need be. Simplicity, combined with ex-
quisite regard for cleanliness in dressing
children, has much I do with their habits
in after life Even the most devoted to-dirt
youngster rather resents wearing a frock
after il has len Soiled, especially if the
children with whom she associates appear
every morning freshly tubbed and Clearly
frocked.
Reverting to the box pleat, which forms
such a feature of frocks, l saw a charming
little poplin for dancing school affair re-
Gently. Now that 1t Is considered wise to
teach children to dance almost as soon as
they can walk, one frock for the weekly