A PRETTY CUSTOM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 11

A PRETTY CUSTOM.

n» The patch-book is a valued possession of many smart girl?. In it is p.xsted a piece of each of their frocks, beginning with their cbming-out dress. The best kept of these have space for comments. These includo the dato of the first wearing of tho gown and a note of the occasion, followed sometimes by a few remarks. Such a book is made with a flexible binding like a scrap book or postcard album. To turn over its pages as the years pass is to recall many a pleasant memory or notable incident, for it j is full of reminifcences and suggestions, as were the historic old patchwork quiltß I which our great-grand-mothers used to make, and of which almost, every patch had some story attached. A piece of an ancostress's wedding gown, another relio of long ago, a piece of the gown perhaps worn at a court function, etc. The possibilities of such a book are, as you sec, infiuitp. Many mothers are fond of making biograph books of their children, starting with portraits of the child as a baby and ripht through their rhildhood, and all their cute fayings and the most notable events that befall them. A patch section containing pieces of thpir frocks, at any rate, of any special frocks, and something about when and where first worn, would add considerably to the future interest.