Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-11-10
Saint Maru's Beacon
CLOTHES FoRLITTLEFoLKs.

Toned little garments, with feathers
and nosegaysand pelerines and Gran
ME muffs and rich laces and flaring
Victorian bonnets.
Provided little girls frocks are
short and full and the skirts tilt up
at the back ever so little, and the
sleeves and the belt are loose and
comfy, there may be as many pic
ture effects as you like, and as much
laboratories as you can afford.
Once, however, a girl has grown
up to school estate she must be
plainly dressed. It's only nursery
babies who are too young to think
much about their clothes or be much
impressed by their prettiness, to
whom velvet and lace and huge
bonnets and fiuttering sashes are
allowed.
And incidentally school girls have
never dressed more sensibly and
whofesomely. Shirt waist and tweed
skirts, sweaters and felt hats, stout
boots and loose gloves, red checks
and bright eyes-here you have a
picture Of the modern young girl
IN route TO school ready for basket
ball al noon and golf after hours.
But If she were small person, o
kindergarten or just baby. she
would have in place Of the sweater
a plush ziboline coat or one Of MOLE
skin velvet, made long and cut cir
cular, and trimmed with a rich lace
collar and worn with ermine furs.
And a Victorian bonnet, all OF
white tull and liberty satin ribbons,
with tufts OF feather a-nodding at
one side, and under the fiaripg
brim in front Nesting down on the
smooth locks no curls for babies now
a days-two small nosegays OF
small pink rosebuds.
Her muf, huge, q big soft fat bar
rel, you've seen the kind in her
John Millais picture book OF funny
little Miss Penelope. Sometimes
she uses smaller muff, a crescent,
moon-shaped thing trimmed with
chenille 10 match.
For very everyday wear, lovely
as her bonnets are, they are a bit
useless, for they fly about in the
wind, and brothers do things 70
them So for play-times she wears
the pretty fur beaver sailors, 10
brown, or blue or tan TO match her
winter heavy coat.
Little children do not wear fur
coats, tippets and capes and mufls
OF course, but an entire fur garment
1s~far too heating forromping babies
who are exercising violently every
out-doorminute. This Limitation
does not naturally apply TO little
folks who live 10 the country and
take long cold winter rides. Coats
are made for them OF white astrakan,
of Tibetan lamb and white caracul,
but they are for driving only.
These white furs at o first glance
seem very expensive propositions,
because they soil so easily, even
when not used for romping and
playing. But they can be easily
cleaned by using strong solution
OF borax water. The water must
be hot and the cleaning speedily
done.
Take for o bowl OF hot water, two
tablespoonfuls Of pure borax, then
with q sponge hastily sponge the
surface OF the short nap furs, letting
them at once dry In the sun or by
artificial heat The long nap fur
may have the hair dipped right In
the borax water If you do it a little
at time, SO as not to soak the pelt.
The skin itself drys slowly and is
apt to rot If wet often, but no amount
of wetting will injure the hair II 1t
is dried at once and quickly.
Furriers charge nearly the price
OF fur set for cleaning II in this
very simple inexpensive way.
Three things should be remem-
bered; that the sponge should never
be used soaking wet, and that IL
should be swiftly applied and the
fur rubbed lightly.
When cleaned, II It can be dried
outdoors in wind and sunshine It
will look like new.
But don I make the mistake OF try
ing to clean white fur beaver hats
this way. They can only be freshen-
ed by dry cleaning process, and
then not perfectly, SO that they are
a bit OF an extravaganza, except for
a very best hat, and then something
will be sure 10 happen to them.
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