. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK. 37-38. Photograph by Franz Haiifstajigel. A DUTCH BABY AND ITS NURSE. FROM A PORTRAIT BY FRANZ HALS. {The Babys Cap, page 294.) ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XXXI. FEBRUARY, 1904. No. 4. THE BABYS CAP. By N. Hudson Moore. A very simple thing it seems, does it not ? or girl could wear more than three rings, and Just a little piece of soft, warm cloth, or somedowny wool knitted into shape, or even somebits of fine lace or silk, or anything dainty, mightgo to make so small a thing as this. But while we may pick and choose and doexactly as we please abou
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK. 37-38. Photograph by Franz Haiifstajigel. A DUTCH BABY AND ITS NURSE. FROM A PORTRAIT BY FRANZ HALS. {The Babys Cap, page 294.) ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XXXI. FEBRUARY, 1904. No. 4. THE BABYS CAP. By N. Hudson Moore. A very simple thing it seems, does it not ? or girl could wear more than three rings, and Just a little piece of soft, warm cloth, or somedowny wool knitted into shape, or even somebits of fine lace or silk, or anything dainty, mightgo to make so small a thing as this. But while we may pick and choose and doexactly as we please about our clothes, therehave been, in times gone by, in many countries,and even in our own, what were known as sumptuary laws. These laws regulated ex-penditure for dress, for ornament, for food, orfor whatever refreshments you might give com-pany when they came to take tea. Among the first of these sumptuary laws wasone made in Rome in 215 , and called the Oppian Law. It declared that no womanshould possess more than half an ounce of gold,wear a dress of d
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