Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-08-10
Saint Maru's Beacon


They re only trying TO tell the
grown-up people that it's q great
mistake to do them up in flannel in
hot weater. Babies should never
be allowed TO wear flannel next TO
the skin. Il is the most common
cause of prickly heat. Their little
shirts should be Of very light weight
wool or of silk or Isle. Several
young mothers nowadays are even
revising the fashions Of their grand
mothers times and making their ba-
bies' summer shirts out OF fine linen
the seams all carefully felled by
hand, of course.
II the baby's skin has become
very irritated by the prickly heat
or chafed from wearing flannel,
battle him three or four times day
in tepid water softened with q little
boric acid. Use only pure white
CASTLE soap for the bath. II it is
impossible 70 have very fine linen
towels TO dry the skin with. then
use old table-napkins. They are
delightfully."- soft and answer the
purpose just as well.
After the bath. put on cold cream
whatever the skin is infiamed. III
made as follows, il is absolutely
harmless TO the tenderest skin and
very soothing.
One ounce Of spermaceti; one ounce
OF white wax; five ounces OF best i'm
ported oil of sweet almonds; one and
one-half ounces of rosewater; twenty
grains OF powdered borax.
Dissolve the borax in the rose
water, and, il the weather is cold,
set the bottle in a pan Of moderately
warm water. Melt wax and sper-
maceti, add almond oil, and heat
slightly; remove from fire and pour
in rosewater quickly. Beat TO a
foam with an egg beaten. When
partially solid, add two drops OF oil
of rose. Cease beating before the
mass is firm. Pour into little porce-
lain jars and keep in a cool place.
Although the clothing worn next
TO the skin should be the matter of
first importance in dressing babies
and all little folks of half-a-dozen
summers or less, mothers should
also be careful about burdening
children with an NECESSARY amount
OF clothing in hot weather. Don +
load them down with conventional
ruffies and furbelows. Try to see
how much you can prudently take
of and not how much fashion urges
you to put on.
Instead Of the thick foundation
waist often so worn, many little tots
are now wearing a combination one
piece cambria garment, consisting
of waist and drawers-and on this
light weight waist are buttoned the
underskirts.
Some mothers simplify this style
even further, making only a skele-
ton waist to the combination gar
ment. A band and shoulder straps
are all there is to it. This leaves
the child's body absolutely free and
at the same time allows the weight
OF the skirts to fall from the should
ers. The suspender fashion in
dresses has very probably been the
cause of this revolution in children's
underwear.
For the long wasted style in
dresses still SO popular, white petit
coats should be gored instead of gath
cred full into the waistband.
Still another good way is to make
the petticoats on the same plan as
the dresses that is with q long
waist, cut low in the neck, and with
two or three very full ruffies sewed
to the bottom OF the waist.
On extremely hot days. it's wise
plan to let the children run around
without the bother OF petticoats ut
all. One fore-thoughtful mother has
little brown linen aprons, with
sleeves, made for her children to
wear when playing indoors in win
ter. These are often trimmed with
simply Misunderstanding or French
knots. either in white or color. By
the time summer has come, the
aprons are worn somewhat thin,
and they then make ideal morning
dresses for the children, petticoats
being discarded except on cool days.
A clever device for hot weather
frocks IS TO make buttonholes in the
outside seams of the sleeve and sew
on little lace buttons. In this way
the sleeve can be opened and rolled
up when the child is hot or playing
a game where sleeves are decidedly
in the way. Then in the cool of the
day or when the game is over, they
can be let down and buttoned up
again. This does away with the
bother of taking a guimpe on and of
to suit every occasion.
ANY plain little dress--that Is