Imperial Valley press., 1915-04-23

up puerile stockings when the snow
begins to fall down it might help a
lot toward doing away with the om-
nipresent adult sniffle and catarrhal
chorus.
These lovely warm sunny days the
English child is as comfortably dressed
as it is artistically. The little short
wasted liberty frocks of pastel-tinted
blue, green or rose alike, and linens
Ilavishly shocked and briar-stitched in
self tints or Of sheer white with the
smoking done in contrasting colors
are qaintly appropriate to English
childhood.
Adorable poke bonnets in the same
pretty coloring show to advantage
atop blonde curls, for, unlike our
American kiddies, the bobbed hair eff
feet is not being worn on this side of
the water. The little girls all have
their hair long and flowing over their
shoulders, and of course it curls,
whether naturelle or la kide or pok-
er. The British boy, no matter how
tiny, spurns the bobbed effect also and
rears a close-cropped little bullet head
proudly to the infantile fashionable
world.
The David Copperfield and Oliver
Twist suits so popular with our small
boys all last summer are only just
breaking in over here on Davids and
divers native SOIL The ever-favorte
sailor suit, however, still reigns su-
preme as heretofore and nothing can
oust it from the popular fancy. In
white or blue linen, but always with
long trousers, it is as charming an
attire for the small lad as anyone
could wish. The long gray trousers,
short black Eton jackets and round
flat white collars of the Eton suits
for the older boys have little appeal
to the American eye.
Military styles are inevitably sight
ed on every hand as well as on every
small boy. The complete khaki out
fits, "just like fathers" are bound
to delight little men the whole world
over. Walking in Hyde Park with his
captain father last Sunday, glimpsed
g complete pocket edition offspring
with the stars and stripes insignia of
his fathers rank also proudly dis
played on his own small sleeve. Put
tees, swagger stick and all, he was
quite blissfully complete.
The cunning little Highland cos
tunes are the true delights, however.
They are of different sorts, some hav-
ing black velvet jacket to be worn
with the plaid kilt, while others have
coat of covert cloth. Either a tam
with feather or the real regulation
Scotch cap such as our fashionable
Fifth Avenue flappers have been af-
fecting as their own, are worn by
the sturdy little imitation "Hoot Mon"
These costumes are by no means in
expensive. Some of them amount up
to well nigh 6 guineas, or over $50,
including all the paraphernalia of cap,
blouse, coat, kilt, "trouse" (which is
the delightful name for the trunks
over here), plaid socks, heavy sled
low shoes and the inevitable pouch.
AS if to mock and laugh to scorn
the omnipresent SCOT and CRIME of
London tiny pure white turban of
straw and silk, either wing or flower.
trimmed, but always spotless in its
cleaning snowiness, is on every we'll
dressed head. 1t is especially attrac-
tive when worn in conjunction with
white fox furs, to which the English
woman wisely clings these chill damn
days of spring.
And, speaking of London smoke.
everything and everybody has the
habit. Even DR.. Pease might be an.
peased by the many dainty and in
genlous devices for the fair sex where
by their smoking is made luxuriously
easy.
Complete little smoking kits fill the
spaces in the smart Russian leather
tango boxes given over at home to
the lure of makeup. There are dainty
holders for fair fingers in every shape,
size and material, but one of the new
est and handiest has two slender
prongs OF gold that at one end clasp
the cigarette in vise-like grip and
at the other end is a narrow circlet
OF gold which slips over the finger.
mus equipped, the worshiper at the
dual shrine of bridge and nicotine may
smoke up and play her cards without
unnecessary interruption.
Smoke and the world and his wife
smoke with you in London, but drink
and you drink alone, if at
all, for their "ain't any such thing"
as real American cocktail in the
whole of the British Isles-so I've
been told.