The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-13
QUAINT CLOTHES FOR LITTLE FOLKS
They Look Artistic and Winsome in Their
Old-Fashioned Garments.


There never was an illustration in
book half so pretty and artistic and
winsome as the pictures children make
this season in their old-fashioned lit
tie garments, with feathers and nose.
gays and pelerines and grannie muifs
and rich laces and faring Victorian
| bonnets.
Provided little girls frocks are short
and full and the skirts tilt up at the
back ever so little, and the sleeves
there may be as many picture effects
as you like, and as much elaborate
ness 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 flutter-
ing sashes are allowed.
And, incidentally, school girls have
never dressed more sensibly and
w
skirts, sweaters and felt hats, stout
boots and loose groves, red cheeks and
bright eyes-here you have a picture
of the modern young girl en- route to
school ready for basketball at noon and
golf after hours.
But if she were a small person, q
kindergarten, or just a baby, she
would have i'll place of the sweater a
plush zibeline coat or one Of moleskin
velvet, made long and cut circular and
trimmed with rich lace collar and
worn with ermine furs.
And Victorian bonnet, all of white
tulle and liberty satin ribbons, with
tufts Of feather anodding at one side,
and under the fiaring brim in front
nesting down on the smooth locks-no
curls for babies nowadays-two small
nosegays of small pink rosebuds.
Her muff, huge, a big, soft fat bar
rel, you've seen the kind in her John
Millais picture book of funny little
Miss Penelope. Sometimes she uses Il
smaller mulf, crescent, moon-shaped
For very everyday wear, lovely as
her bonnets are, they are bit useless,
for they fly about in the wind, and
brothers do things to them. SO for
playtimes she wears the pretty fur
beaver sailors, in brown, or blue or
tan to match her winter heavy coat.
Little children do not wear fur coats,
tippets and capes and muffs, of course,
but an entire fur garment is far too
heating for romping babies who are
exercising violently every outdoor
minute. Tkis limitation does not rat
urally apply to little folks who live in
the country and take long cold winter
rides. Goats are made for them Of
white astrakan, of Tibetan lamb and
white caracul, but they are for driv
ing only.
These white furs, at a first glance,
seem very expensive propositions, be-
cause they soil so easily, even when
not used for romping and playing. But
they can be easily cleaned by using Il
strong solution of boraX water. The
water must be hot and the cleaning
speedily done.
Take for bowl of hot water two
tablespooafuls of pure borax; then
with sponge hastily sponge the sur
face of the short nap furs, letting
them at once dry in the sun or by arti.
fetal 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 it.
self dries slowly and is apt to rot IL
wet often, but no amount of wetting
will injure the hair if it is dried at
once and quickly.
Furriers charge nearly the price Of
fur set for cleaning it in this very SIM
pie, inexpensive way.
Three things should be remembered:
that the sponge should never be used
soaking wet, and that it should be
swiftly applied and the fur rubbed
lightly.
When cleaned, if it can be dried out
doors in wind an sunshine, it will
look like new.
But don't make the mistake Of trying
to clean white fur beaver hats this
way. They can only be freshened ty
dry cleaning process, and then not
perfectly. Mouse colored beavers to
match velvet moles&in coats are beau
tiful, and so are the other shades ana
all the different tones OF brown that
are so very fashionable.
And brown is the color for small
children this year. The Gainsbor
ough hats and Victorian bonnets are
brown, and you can set all shades of
brown stockings and boots and gloves.
The prettiest brown fur for little folks
is dyed squirrel. 1t is not expensive
and is very soft AMI babyish.
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