Show Your Baby and Mine By ilY MYRTLE FRILLY RILLY BABY ABY GARMENTS TEMPT MOTHERS Baby garments draw mothers like lie flies flics fes to a honeypot Even those of us with grown children yearn sentimentally tally over windows full of dolls doll realistically real real- attired atred and wish whenever we pass through though a baby department that we knew some infant for whom to select clothes cothes The modern mother need not spend I g her days making fine ne trucks and laboring la la- boring over yards of feather stitching for she can if she chooses buy a ready-made ready outfit outi from diapers to coat and all al made hand-made too if i she is willing to pay for it i. i Even if j a mother mothen moth moth- er en cannot afford these delicate garments gar gar- ments meats it would pay ply her to look at them i if only to make her aware of how hot beautiful and useful well made garments garments gar gar- ment ments can be NOT TOO ELABORATE The perfect layette should be sImple sim simple sIm- sIm plc and practical There should be sufficient garments garment to keep bab baby dressed in iii fresh clean clothes every day of his life There should be few enough so 50 that half hal of the wardrobe isn't unworn when baby into nto creepers We have to remember that hat babies take on weight and und height at n a speedy rate rato the first year car and in m s six x months can be literally bursting out ut of or their sweet s little dresses For I na reason size 2 5 is a better choice than han size 1 of both undergarments nt and outer garments unless of course the mother is i able to supply a n second wardrobe within the tho YC year r. r Four Foul shirts shirt and nd bands if i baby wears them three to four nightgowns night night- gowns owns three petticoats six pairs of hose lose and seven dresses comprise an nn ample mple wardrobe for any baby When one must get along with the least wih possible pos pos- sible ible expenditure one can cnn manage ce with wih two of each garment though they hey necessitate daily washing and consequently more wear and tear There is very little wool in the mod mod- era ern rn baby's wardrobe Our well heat ed houses wel houes prevent event baby's ever being in n anything but bul a summer sLimmer atmos atmos- phere There may be a n tiny tny bit of wool in the tine cotton coton or silk sik shirt bi and d a i tin till tiny bit bi In the first hose Cotton flannel nightgowns and petticoats petticoat are more popular than those made of all all- wool flannel annel If I this last is used al in severe climates the top of the petticoat petti- petti coat is made of cotton Any of the fine Ine ne materials dimity or are suitable for the dresses with wih the first choice for the hardest wear Diapers are tremendously taint ant tant and if and I mother must be gant gnat here is her hel chance Six dozen is none too man many and four dozen I is i S about the thc minimum with wih which on one e can manage comfortably Most mothers make all al their mistakes mis mis- takes with wih the layette of their first firs I babies finding it i difficult to resist I run lace garments frills fris and rut ruf- flings But these flimsy machine machine- made garments garment are reduced to rags rag 5 in a few washings Simpler garments sara gar meats ments made of good ment materials am and 1 decorated with the tiniest of oC tucks the finest of handiwork and the nar man rawest of laces repay one for for- forthe the time tim C and effort expended upon them Information for tor the Prospective e Mother one of my leaflets includes include S a simple layette as well as the wel nece for the bath and the bassinet L In addition I have additon another leaflet o on Fl Information About Care and ad Use o of If Diapers These two leaflets may b be C secured by any reader who will wi write writ C me for them enclosing with her hel wih rc request re re- quest a self addressed stamped I ope |