MEXICAN BABY CLOTHES.
The babies of Mexico are no more' like our babies than their grandfathers are liko our grandfathers. Their long skirts aro made to hang open'in the back from the yoke down to tho bottom, and it is a dainty exhibit of hand-mado laco and linen, drawn to tho line-, .ncss of a. spider's web,, that spreads its.es-, pause over;'t.he;nurse!s arm., 'lhe top of the' garment' is fashioned' from.:tho 'most' elaborately beflowered and- gorgeously liued 'material conceivable, and, if tho infant-be a girl, her splendour is not infrequently enhanced' ■by a set of coral necklace, .bracelets, pin', and earrings. The colourless baby dress,'is . reserved for. tho unfortunate, whose grandmother or greaVuncle has' died "siric'o its birth.'The .- white dress, inthis case is used, as a background for" a sash of wide black ribbon, tied in a manner that nearly obliterates the front. of the waist, while the long ends-hang on the child, like the' badgq of the door-bell of a house of mourning.—LieueJla ■' Tisdale) in '.'Sunset Magazine."' . . ••->«■■■■ /
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 142, 10 March 1908, Page 3
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168MEXICAN BABY CLOTHES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 142, 10 March 1908, Page 3
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