Show 1 YOUR YO R BABY 1 I I AND MINE MINEA MI EI I IA A COMBINATION OF OPINIONS ON SLEEPING SLEEPING BAGS BAGS Almost every mother who wrote me In answer to my query as to the successfulness of made home-made sleeping sleeping sleep sleep- ing bags described bed th the s 's same me type of bag baS When hen one wants wants wants' to know any anything thinS thinS' just ask So J many So-many many mothers mothers mothers moth moth- ers sat down Immediately Imme and wrote me nie detailed descriptions of the bags for which labor and thought thought- funess let let me me thank them hero here and no now Made Home-Made Sleeping Bags BagG The three materials used by all were heavy cotton crib db blankets two of them or three yards of If bat baby y bunting or eiderdown or half half- worn wool all blank blankets ts The neck portions w re bound with tape or bias material Ial and most of them suggested j just st the the- square sewed on two or three sides and the to top left open just far enough to allo allow for inserting the child One mother moth moth- er used a a. circular cape with sith hood bood very sU successfully and another a kimono pattern of a size for fora a small smal adult The front slit and sides ana bot bOt- torn tom In most cases cases were er closed with tapes or or with goo sized f safety pins By far tar the largest argest majority of or mothers voted for the pin hi cl dOs dOsing clos sing s- s ing a as as offering the mc most to small fingers inte Intent Intent- t getting I 1 out I M Most st mothers mother thou thought hf the i bottom of the bag should romah open s so se that the child could gould be changed l' l in the the night night andI and think so so too especially especially espe espe- for th the c tl l under eighteen months of oL age ago i The matter m of of- the tife h hood od was managed In in various arious' ways Some said a h hood d. d some some a Gorne three cornered ed cap and some used a thinner fl pa ma than thu the bag O One e mother suggested ted he heavy musin- musin ns s' s more suitable to a cold sleeping room than the woolen material materia but wool whet when the bag was to be e used on the sleeping porch I The average length for the f finished fin fin- n- n l bag bag- was wa on one and ahil one half ya yards qs M Most st st. mothers spoke spoke-of cf f the n necessity e of of- having Y t two or or more bags All AU in n all aU it would seem that the made home-made bags are are eminently satiSfactory satisfactory sat sat- easy to make and without without with with- out doubt one o of the most niost ways of k keeping a s small nall baby cov ov- ov ered at night The most experienced wriggler cannot get out from under them an and they o offer fEl r nt of freedom for movement nt a most most essential thing to keep in mina mind w with th small cl children t |