FOR THE TODDLER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

FOR THE TODDLER.

Dresses for the one to tliree-year-old child go in for style individuality.

Baby blue batiste makes the top dress that has its tiny bolero outlined with white Valenciennes. White embroidery adds further daintiness. The fashion for wide collars is recognised in this flesh pink batiste (centre), the upper part of which is finely tucked and then released to produce extra width in the skirt. Fine tucks, delicately worked embroidery and Valenciennes lace conspire in lending distinction to a white batiste with boyish collar and gathered puffed sleeves. -5° =5-7 and misbehaviour. Good conduct, on the other hand, could bring up the level of their pool. The reward tickets given for perfect saying of the cathechism, for instance, were cashed at the rate of one penny to the dozen. The most interesting part of the relics of the school is the memorandum on punishments: — Any girl who is charged with impiety or profaneness to sit in the fool's corner till the school hours are over and not to speak or be spoken to: for those who will not employ their tongues in praying to God and praising Him had better not speak at all. Any girl who makes a practice of not minding what is said to her by her mistress, or behaves rudely to anyone, to stand in the middle of the school as long as her mistress sees fit. Any girl who quarrels with her schoolfellow or is ill-natured, to ask pardon before the whoTe school and promise better behaviour: or to sit in the quarreller's corner till she does so. Any girl who tells a falsity or does any deceitful sly trick to have a red tongue tied on as a mark of disgrace, and to sit by herself with a label on her gown on which Is written "Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." Any girl who is guilty of dishonesty not to be trusted with anything of value, but to have her pockets searched publicly every time she goes out of school, till she appears sensible of her faults—if she repeats it, to be turned out of the school. When by obstinate disobedience after the usual punishments that of the rod becomes necessary, the mistress shall report it to the visitors, and they shall adjudge it in form, and after a strong private exhortation the two head scholars shall bring forth and solemnly read the correction proverbs of Solomon, and hand them up for the day, when, after suitable exhortation, the visitor shall see the the punishment be inflicted, without cruelty, but effectually. If this fails, no child on any account to be kept in the school, but be expelled, when all clothes and gifts shall be left behind and forfeited. After this dark picture, it is some relief to know that every girl who had kept from the sins of impiety and profaneness was to have a book given to her at breaking-up, and the girl who appeared to have committed the fewest faults was to have a Prayer-book for her own. Ordinary oil-paint may be used fo cement surfaces if treated in this way: Let the paint 6tand a day or two, then draw off the oil that collects «»> +cp and substitute vinegar for the oil, mixill'* in the usual way. The paint will then stick to the cement as ordinary paint sticks to wood. It gives a glossy finish to a dull floor.