Babyhood . gs for Babies of Latitude. Perhaps many of the readers of Babyhoodare blessed with a fat baby ; if so, I wish to givethem a hint in regard to foot-covering. At sixmonths my babys legs were so very fat, and hisfeet so tiny, that I found it impossible to pur-chase stockings of the desired shape. My thread-bare thinking-cap was again pressed into service,with the following result: Stocking-bag full offine silk clocked Bal- omrnmifflnnnnmbriggans that papa dis- ^|jlj^-fCT||i™liked to wear because v1:./: /;•]of their much darning,as here you can see inillustration. Now I took scissorsand
Babyhood . gs for Babies of Latitude. Perhaps many of the readers of Babyhoodare blessed with a fat baby ; if so, I wish to givethem a hint in regard to foot-covering. At sixmonths my babys legs were so very fat, and hisfeet so tiny, that I found it impossible to pur-chase stockings of the desired shape. My thread-bare thinking-cap was again pressed into service,with the following result: Stocking-bag full offine silk clocked Bal- omrnmifflnnnnmbriggans that papa dis- ^|jlj^-fCT||i™liked to wear because v1:./: /;•]of their much darning,as here you can see inillustration. Now I took scissorsand cut the socks, asshown by the dottedline ; then stitched upthe seam, and feather-stitched back, so itwould not, by a ridge,hurt the little puff-ballsof feet. And really, you cannot imagine whatsweet and pretty little socks they made. Theelastic top covered so beautifully the little,dimpled knees ! They could not look any betterhad they cost a dollar per pair. Mrs. Fannie L. Fancher. Dodge Centre, Another New Way. Doubtless my screed is not worth publica-tion, as my clothes are so much like those pre-viously described, but I thought some might beinterested in the difference. I have just beenexamining the Gertrude baby suit in the Junenumber, and think it very good. Yet I thinkmy way preferable in some respects. 41 My way only by right of purchase, however. Although the mother of nine children, I sel-dom have any long clothes left over from onebaby to pass on to another. Perhaps one or twospecially pretty dresses are kept, the rest beinggiven away in one direction or another. So, some BABYHOOD. 367 five years ago, there was a wardrobe to be pre-pared for number seven, and I sent to Dansville,N. Y., for Mrs. Jacksons patterns of baby-clothes. I was charmed with them and, like theexcellent mother Dr. Grosvenor speaks of, I amquite worn out cutting patterns for likes them. The only material differ-ence between them and the Gertrude patterns arethat my ski
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