New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1916, Page 10

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1916. S S ——3 O, THIS ISN'T “BABY WEEK”--MERELY SCHOOL GARB FOR YOUNGSTERS B S A S S A AT A A AATIATS CSATAS ASASASAS OTHERS and those who are interested in the designing of youthful clothes are the two classes of women who the importance of the change in 's costumes. One slogan in the nursery sew- was that there should be of each garment in order to se- e hygienic cleanliness that each fights for with all her energy, ling to the winds the old tradi- t peck of dirt is necessary.” was a custom growing in pity among mothers of small | 0 keep them dressed in all Br light colored wash frocks all \f around. Warm, steam heated ‘probably explain this style, as frocks are too warm for wear and long heavy coats are per- warm enough over the cotton for wear in our mild winters. first child wears a charming of white linen, the stitching be- one in pale blue. Interesting blue and green, with a smart patent leather belt. Don’t Forget The Children! HE first warm day we have every child that is worth a pinch of salt will want to throw off winter clothes and bask in S blue The cleft bolero is traw hats and gingham frocks. §, more elaborate than the dia- pattern, adorn the yoke, while | llar, cuffs and skirt hem are fin- piped around the edge and trimmed with white pearl buttons to match the little white pique collar and cuffs, with simple featherstitching. makes an ideal play uniform. hext girl wears a school frock of blue linen cut with a kilted and a corselet top, which is beit- d worn over a white batiste pe. All edges of the corselet are ped with a darker shade of blue floss. The simplicity of this frock t in the hands of every mother. tall, spindling child is clothed in | ty frock of Scotch plaid gingham, | while a little blue velvet four-in-hand tie gives the right touch to the neck. The sturdy girl next pictured is ap- propriately garbed in a jumper suit,| plain pink chambray combined with | pink and white plaid, The ball crochet buttons give a becoming touch. This jumper suit is worn over a serviceable guimpe of white pique, edged with strong torchon lace. A demure lassie is proud of her plaid gingham frock—a gay blue, red and| Spring Fashion HIONS have been quiescent in his realm of clothes for many years. have been no Kate Greenaway or de Monvel to establish a revolu- Simplicity, severity, comfort, form rilogy which has ruled all ideas ected with the small garments. So ral has been the acceptance of law that the majority of us have lght that juvenile costumery was led forever along a certain groove that quantity and quality were the ncts to good dressing for the g b mother minded the fact that her hgster had a dozen frocks or slips | on the same pattern and made ibly out of the same material ke was not even a definite struggle a variety in color. here are some who put down the ge in children’s clothes to Che- and Lanvin, both of whom are ex- s in this field of costumery. Their ses were turned over for the de- hing of new things for American dren more than the French children, they well realized that there was e money to be spent in Europe on ile clothes. @ny of the new things arriving in feountry have been met with more brniishment than approval, but, like fashions and many other changes, hiliarity has brought acceptance. general acceptance of a change in Bidren’s fashions has not yet set in, j it is too early to prophesy whether not the revolution will be farreach- an accentuation of the change t has taken place in small garments re is a new frock advanced as the et correct model for spring; it is de of brown gaberdine embroidered yellow, with:a yellow satin blouse. he use of this fabric and this color unusual in children's clothes, and it bws that we are tending away from b conventional theories of what ould be worn and dipping into the gion of the unknown. It is quite true t the tiniest youngsters have worn bolen clothes when no attempt was de for fashion and only comfort and alth were considered, but whenever ere was even the smallest altar to hion raised in the sewing room juall children were kept to washable terials. s For Children have to be considered this is an excel- lent habit, as wash clothes are so much more sanitary in every way than the woolen frock, which is worn unwashed through a whole *winter. Again, it means more wear out of the small clothes, as they can be worn straight ahead until worn out or outgrown, which occurs more or less at the same time, where if cotton frocks are put away in the fall they will surely be too small when spring rolls around. But where washing and ironing especially is a consideration, ways and means must be discovered to make the wash frock practical. The button up styles, which can be laid out entirely or partially flat on the ironing board, facilitate the process at laundry time and are very popular for tiny tots. Of course the present fashion for smocking spreads over into youngster's clothes, and the brilliant smocks of colored satin and crepe de chine have been imitated in small frocks. Entire frocks of pale yellow or blue and rose colored china silk are smocked at the shoulders, the wrists and the hips, the latter holding the fullness into the fi:lure and obviating the necessity of a belt. Summer frocks of fine muslin or or- gandy will have smocking of cambric thread with no other ornamentation used but a bit of lace at the wrists and neck. Any mother is safe in sheathing her offspring in blue gingham this season, while pinks reign for girls in the teens. . SOMETHING GROWING. (UT flowers at this seagon are ex- pensive, but they will soon be cheaper. Even now if we put by 50 cents a week we can have something growing always in sight in our living rooms. Growing plants of ivy that give a charming touch of growing green to a room cost no more than 26 cents, and these will grow more or less indefinitely if watered occasionally and given plenty of air. And if we buy one of these ivy plants one week we have just that much more money to spend for flowers later on. One week We can in. vest in a lijsle pot of ferns, and again in a primy gr begonia. Begonias give great getion, for they 1it. green plaid checked off with a pin stripe of bright yellow. The skirt is box plated, the belt cut on the bias, like the vest, and the long waisted top trimmed with white pearl buttons. Please notice the dainty white organdie collar and cuff set she wears. The adorable baby at the end plays in a quaint little pinafore of belge blue | linen, bound around all edges with black silk braid and buttoning hygien- ically on the shoulders. How brave the | huge pockets are, and how interesting the frieze of kindergarten creatures parading across the bottom. School hats verge into slouchy shapes still, and modified peachbaskets. Sonnyboy is always happy in a middy | suit, with or without a kerchief and lanyard. One middy for the four-year- old fastens with four huge buttons Sister's hat is trimmed with black vels vet ribbon and a fruity cluster on the | left side. ( Lere the laundry question does not erally sta d with bloom for weelks L SISTER’S PARTY GOWDN | for A YOUTHFUL BELLE THIS party frock for the schoolgirl is quite as important as the dance gown of her older sister; it certainly is Jjust as pretty. Fashloned of pale blue taffeta, top corded ruffle overhung with a creamy net edged with shadow lace and made with a little bolero, accentu- ated by a French wreath of tiny pink rosebuds, this frock makes the dainti- est kind of necessity for holiday festi- vals, A GIBE FROM THE MILLINER A SUCCESSFUL milliner makes the S assertion that 99 in 100 women don’t know how to put on their hats. And, as just about 99 in 100 women have to put on their own hats, this lack of skill is almost deplorable. The gravest fault in the way women put on their hats is that they don't put them on far front emough. The hat must come well down over the forehead, in spite of predictions made last year| that we would again show much of the hair under our hats. This prediction is justified only in the case of the hats that tip well up the back and show the hair there. One reason why we don’t get our hats far front enough is that they aren’'t big enough, very often. It is an economy if your head is unusually large to have vour hats made to order. For then they can be worn at the right angle and will give the right appearance. If your hats are becoming they don't need hair about the face to soften them and make them more becoming. 1f the straight line of hat agail in is not becoming, don't pull out a fuzzy here and there to soften the line. In- stead, make one curl in the middle of the forehead and pull it out so that it makes a thin fu the forehead. If the Iine of the hat over the ears is trying, make a curl just over each —a definite one that gives effect. Don't just use the stray locks that you can pull from the h on top of your head. The new hats that have been shown southern wear still maintain the line that is low over the face. Some of them.arve h and well up at the back, but the always pulled down. ear loek | z or bang all across| et 2% ) T['HAT Fashion is a capricious tyrant who rules her subjects with a rod of iron is a popular but mistaken no- tion. Things are, in fact, rather the| other w Certain broad rules must, | of course, be followed, but there is no| iron fist of unintelligent despotism. Somebody once s for fools, but he was certainly not right in the ser - " intended. Never was| the fact that Fashion is the most broad- | minded of dames better illustrated than | at the present moment, when, \vnhin‘ the dimensions of a skirt as brief as it| is broad, a woman may follow her own| farcy in the matter of clothes. If she| inclines to the modes of fifty years she may be Victorian in so far as Vie- torianism may be compatible with th indisputable presence of ankles and un- | derstanding: Or, again, she may pre- fer the martial severity of braid and| button, the long lines of the Russian| suit or the loose comfort of the Cos- sack coat. In any or all in rotation her | “turnout” is equally fashionable, pro-| vided always that the style suits her| personality and figure. Once that knot- | | ty point is settled the rest is plain sail-, jing. | Then there is the | Sleeves, in a double sense, loom large ton the horizon th son, They offer| |a wide fleld for the exercise of origi- nality, taste and discretion, with this| single exception—that, in the case of | | the suit, the choice is necessarily some- | what limited. The time when a frock | was dated by its sleeve has away. The leg-o'-mutton sleeves of the early nineties, the balloon sleeves e after, the straight sleeves| ded the opening of the twen- | ury or the one with many puffs, which was a feature of the modes that followed, are one and all| used by the dre; er of toda Another reverses the process, but,| ding the way of periect freedom of | choice little to its ta ith | ot outlook to the 1 seeks the narrow path as it the end of its | brief life. One puffs at the shoulde | Another has no such enlarged notions | of its own importance, but pursues the from ago matter of sleeves. ws bre or of its wa and the bell slecve over cuffs of lawn or lace,| | whichever you please. One sleeve iz set |into a nor armhole, another droops | languidly from some Doint above the armhole to opens un- | even te | ed | FOOD FIRST AT CHILD'S PARTY.| | keeping. No Set Rules In Fashion > b4 X 0 + elbow and a third, boasting no inde= pendent existence, forms part and par= cel of the corsage, of which, indeed, it is merely an extension in one particu= lar direction A waistcoat here, a collar thers, a pray of flowers, some tulle and & tab-~ sel (we call it a ruffie for courtesy)— these are some of the trifies by the help of which the clever woman of small means contrives to lend to her ward-| robe something of the diversity which! characterizes the outfits of her wealth- ier sisters. | Flowers, too, deserve more than al passing notice. Tight bouquets and posies have given way to trailing sprays and festoons, Not infrequently the heath-like drapery, generally of a con trasting shade, which in many gowns encircle the figure from bust to hips, is plentifully sprinkled with flowers, and the coiffure, the waistband, the sleeve and the garter have all suge cumbed to a flowery passion, ITTLE children under six are hard| to entertain. They are generally restless and shy and do not know how to enter into games as quickly as when th are older. One of the best ways we have found to overcome this shyness and reserve is to have the “goodies™ first. After all the little ones have come to the party usher them into the dining room and bring on the birthday cake, the ice cream, popcorn balls and One may then stand back and see their little cheeks flush, their eyes widen with delight and their joy burst forth. When they have eaten their fill and received the little favors dear to their childish hearts they are ready for i the peanut hunt, the merry romp and the other jolly games.—Good Hou KEY IN FILLET. Chat ow—1 sp, 7 bl, 1 sp. Second row—1 sp, 1 bl, 7 sp, Third row—7 sp, 1 bl, 1 &p 1 8p, 1 bl, 7 sp. Fifth row—4 sp, 4 bl, 1 sp. Sixth, seventh and eighth rows—é |sp. 1Dl 4 Ninth row—1 sp, 4 bl, 4 sp. Tenth row—T sp, 1 bl, 1sp. Eleventh row—1 sp, 1 bl, 7 sp, Twelfth row—7 sp, 1 bl, 1 sp. Continue until length desired. /