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Show I m Jacques La Touf' Noted pjB ' Wl Beauty Expert. Approves Jf0irMr0$$B ' I'' MMNlfllM I Spng Styles for Children, rAiSSlli ' : ' JoIIWIMIM Because Plenty . .WKIil' j ei There will be distinctive fashions for children this spring, just as pronounced as for the grown folks. For little girls the Gretehen type will be very popular. A pretty type of Gretehen dress Is made of lawn with valle lace and Swiss embroidery. em-broidery. Shadow laces, too. will be popular, popu-lar, made up In blouse effects with low neck and kimono sleeves. The 5 high waist line hhs always been popular In children's clothing because be-cause their dresses are so short a .' ' : . low waist line seems proportlon- ally too low and Is not considered H artistic by many mothers. . ' Women are fond of good clothing, '.I but apparently they are fondor.of. good clothing for their youngsters. i t Th'ey want .their children to wear . neatly fitting dresses and. -ults, Even the toddlers must be well 1 t dressed. Contrasted to the high 4, waist line the long French ' waist ,? line wlll'bein vogUe. too. in Amti'- k lea for-little girls 'of '2; and '3 or 4 years old. The fashion designers' . t( long, ago learned that women can- ,'. no- aCree in dress .and. 'therefore have furnished two . contrasting" fa types. . . i is ; Children's dresses are dC3)gned' 5, for . the most parrin" A-merTca, al- l& though the French influence -Is , felt. T,: Usually, .the French styles arje , .1)1 changed for use In America..' Amcjr- leans clothe ' their children, usually " In loose' garments. There is none of 'that light lacing or uncomfo'rt- ab?e. collars Prevalent In stylets for fe'i grownr'ups.. The children are al- - ; tiii lowed jq grow. 4 up . In comfort." 4 tli Jacques La Tour, the beauty export. ; b In-- cofnm'enting on the' American'' ,?2J style of dress Tor the children a" f l few "days ago, approved it highly! " vln 'Y11: makes for perfection,"' 'he, if said..' "The blood Is allowed, to- elr- ; cujatc freely througii the .veins-" of. on tho children at all times. The.or- bthe Sans are. given a chance to -develop. V naturally. , The children- ,p.e given J a chance to be . comfortable- - Un- pB comfortable children are unhappy. - - They, fret In their uncomfortable. . clothing ,arjd become unhealthy as a result Ii "Children, should bo given the freest development If they would be -healthy- and you cannot haive v Pcautlful children -unless, they are , h9althy. For spring wear I would " advfse plenty of plothing for the 8m? children a..lqng as the wet' reason $4.0 . rernains. When It ets w.arm; quick- (ji ly remove all clothing that will make the child uncomfortable. I ' , 1 do not give such advice- for grown 1 Persons because it would do . JUtle S good. S, "Furthermore. grown r persons have, the chance, to lookout for Jhemselves. Children often are j misused by their elders because . the srrown-upa do not get the child's point of view. While tight and" uh-"."a uh-"."a comfortable clothing may not injure J elderly persons much. It Is often n fatal to children who are Just developing. de-veloping. "I like the spring styles for children chil-dren because they are loose. I believe be-lieve the clothing adopted for children chil-dren by Americans will surely result re-sult In more beautiful children In years to come." It is not until a girl gets up In her teens- that she begins to adopt the styles of her elders. Her suits and gowns begin to look like her mother's. Pretty soon she begins to lengthen her dress. Girls in the rapid growing stage often .put several" sev-eral" tucks in their dresses so they can lengthen, them out. at will, during dur-ing the season of wear. WASHABLE DRESSES FOR THE TOTS. Washable dresses, are almost universally uni-versally adopted for children. They prove more sanitary than other kinds. Eesides s,mall children are likely to get. their dresses all mussed up. It they aro not washable wash-able there is no chance to improve their appearance. . Emoroldered piques are very correct' for best afternoon and Sunday Sun-day dresses; For the dancing .class, embroidered nets,, over whito mostly, most-ly, very much bcruffied ip some very new-models like little Second Empire Em-pire .frocks, aro stylish. Soft :silks In pale chlors have been shown for daiicing'go'wnSi and perhaps the fact that dryrcjeanslng- is not so expensive expen-sive as for.merly may give theni a renewed vogue.. . A; new feature of some of . these dresses Is the long narrow Inset ycal of- pleated net or !avn which extends-down to the encircling sash. 'Children used to 'wearsuch styles' in the- eighties. Dresses with bright- little printed " 'figures. In' pongee, linen and foulard, are-.novel:, the plaid dress, loo. has. returned to -style. . ' The styles of boys suits to be Worn .for 'the spring of- 1914 will consist of tho . Russian blouse with plain pants, roll one inch turn up. on the pants. The sailor blouse is made with the Dutph neqk and plain beach pants. The "Oliver Twist" suit -will be worn extensively with the' silk sjas.h. pjaln pants with, shirt Qffcqt cpat. buttoned all around. The styles, of the bpys' suits will consist of the single, or doublo-breasted sack coat- with the Russian belt In the back. The trousers will be made In both the plain or In the bloomer effect. The boys and children's reefers topcoats wilj be made In the plain double - breasted. three - quarter length with the belt back, with embroidery em-broidery cmbloms on the sleeves -wl.h plain or .convertible collars. The materials used Tor this season most favored will be the shepherd plaids. In the plaja and in the broken brok-en checks. Also tho same Effect in the Scotch mixtures, .cashmeres and worsted. The covert cloth will bo used extensively; nlso the plain blue serges. The styles for the boys' washablo eults for tho coming season will bo cut along the lines of the wool spring styles and the matorlals will consist of both foreign and domestic domes-tic ratine, poplins, linens, galatoas. English and French, madras and a number of now effects. The beach pants styles will predominate pre-dominate for the season. The eton and military collars and-the Dutcfc neck will predominate. SHALL PLAIDS MTEET- APPROVAL. In the plaids for small boys, La Tour recommends that large plaids be discarded. "You cannot do too much to safeguard safe-guard the health of your children," says La Tour. "In plckjng styles for your children's wear not only the beauty of tho garment can be considered, you must . take into consideration his future health anJ beauty. I am In favor of tho small plaid's, but strongly opposed to tho big plaids, "Large plaids make tho children norvous and fretful. I do not know ,the reason, but physicians in my employ tell me this Is a fact and should bo taken into accouni whenever when-ever you buy anything In plaids. "There is one other thing that I wlsjh to call the attention of . parents par-ents to .and that Is hyglepo lessons. Too many parents allow their children chil-dren to grow up as best they may and never teach them anything about their personal euro. I believe be-lieve that as soon as a child Is old enough to talk he Is old enough to reason and lessons should be taught about personal cleanliness and care. I have seen your American mothers allow their children to lick stamps. - "Older persons with high resistance resist-ance may be able to lick stamps and still survive. They should not do It, however, and more than that they should never allow their children chil-dren to do so. The babies see their parents lick stamps and place them on envelopes and they beg to do the same thing. The indulgent parent allows them to stamp and seal tho envelopes. Now, the parent should never allow a, child to lick slamps." This licking of envelopes -is a very serious matter. Thousands of germs settle on a gummed surface, germs of any ono of the many horrible hor-rible diseases which are. at best uncomfortable un-comfortable to think about. Make It a rule, mothers, that the clean pink tongues of your offspring shall not run the risk of contracting diseases dis-eases such as these. Next to licking stamps and gummed gum-med surfaces in general conies the wetting of the fingers to turn tho pages of a book. This is most dangerous, even with a book from the household library, but with public library books it Is positively criminal to 'allow a child to continue con-tinue tho practice without eniphatlc" warning. One thing Is certain, that we cannot, and would not, wish to do without public libraries, but what a blessing it would be if there wero only some way of sterilizing the books before they are taken from the 3helve3 by our children. As a safeguard, however, teach the children to keep the books as far as possible from their faces (within easy reading distance, of course), to wash their hands before 0TgiPHS CUNT MURPHY JR. ESPECIALLY I POSED AT "Vn BAES2.. FULLER. '"w j CROM left to rightA rainy day suit for boys with shepherd's check; a Gretehen dress of lawn, with Val. lace and Swiss embroidery em-broidery for a little girl; an Oliver Twist suit of pure linen, with French knots and colored pipings; a shadow, lace dress with blouse effect and kimono sleeves. and after reading thorn, ana never, never wet their fingers in their mouths to turn a page. Also, forbid for-bid thorn to brir.g a much-soiled volume from the library. Explain to them about the Uttle "wlggly" germs that are on tho ?ages of dirty books, though they cannot sec them, and you should have little trouble In getting them to obey you, even when they aro not under your supervising eye. It would be an excellent thing-If we all had liquid soap in our bathrooms, bath-rooms, such as they now have In most of our railroad stations. In France it is considered as bad form among well-bred people to use an- other person's soap as it is to' use another person's toothbrush, and rightfully so, too. Let the little ones have their Individual, cakes of soap, and let them know why they have thorn. This will be a good opportunity op-portunity to teach them economy, too. and. yes, consideration for others. Tell the children that they must not let the soap He In the water, because It will take father's or mother's money that is needed for something else. They will quickly become Interested and cooperative co-operative If they are led to helicve that they are assisting mother and father to keep down household expenses. ex-penses. It It should happen that a child is obliged to use a cake of soap used by other people, teach the little one that the soap must have a bath boforo and after using always! al-ways! The child should hold tho cake of soap under the hot water (tell her that cold water, while better bet-ter than no water at all, will not vanquish germs so effectually) for about a half minute before' using the soap. After using, she must have consideration for tho next fellow fel-low and give the -soap a second half-minute bath. Another lcs30n n . hygiene for the girl Is that of keeping her own brush and comb clean. No amount ' ' ,.i , V of scrubbing in soap and water will 'satisfactorily clean between ' the teeth of a comb, and so mis- ' sie must use a strip of muslin anJ 1 pull It back and forth between tho teoth, as though 8he were playing bootblack. A small quantity of ammonia am-monia or borax should' be added to the water in which both the comb and brush are washed. Both brush and comb should be allowed to soak a half hour before being thoroughly cleaned. Tho ammonia may be Placed In the "soaking" water" and ( a strong- soap used, in the second i water. Tho brush should then be rinsed in hot water and then In. t cold to harden, the bristles. j 'Another thing: in the bathroom besides the soap requires .a bath ono's face cloth and bath cloth. It is. surprising how many grown- j ps neglect this In their rush to get dressed as quickly as possible. The oversight i3 really unpardonable. unpardon-able. After using tho cloths they . should bo placed in the bottom of 1i the stationary washstand and tho hot water faucet turnod on. ,Do not j put the stopper in the washstand, but let hot water drain off the 1 cloths and so carry with it some, at least, of tho little wlggly germs. Before using the cloths, r bath should always be given them, just as with the soap. |