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What is sold as all-wool flannel will cost about 60 cents a yard. 

 There is, however, a flannel on the market at 75 cents a yard that abso- 

 lutely will not shrink and does not grow yellow with age and much 

 washing. Make the petticoats in the popular "Gertrude" style, which 

 opens on the shoulder, about twenty-eight or thirty inches long. Feather 

 stitch the same and buttonhole the top and bottom edges. Fasten with 

 buttons and buttonholes. When buying the flannel allow an extra 

 yard for the bands. These should be about six inches wide and torn 

 across the goods; the edges should be left raw. I have given six as 

 the number required, but there should be enough so that a fresh one can 

 be adjusted as often as necessary. 



Buy cotton birdseye for the diapers, making two dozen of the eigh- 

 teen-inch width and two dozen of the twenty-two inch width. Cut the 

 material about three inches longer than twice the width, which will 

 allow for shrinking and yet leave a double square when folded ; finish each 

 end with a narrow hem. Old table linen is nice for inner diapers, made 

 up double in about fourteen-inch squares. 



Little socks or bootees of worsted should be plenty large. If the 

 ribbon is run in high enough up on the leg and properly tied, the 

 infant cannot kick them off. Some advocate woolen stockings that can 

 be pinned to the diapers, thus covering the whole leg ; the only objection 

 is, that they become wet or soiled almost as frequently as the diapers. 



In many lists, night slips, day slips and dresses are all set down 

 as necessary. Only one of these seems necessary, day slips, which are 

 more elaborate than those called night slips, yet perhaps not quite grand 

 enough to be called dresses. Plain white goods or crossed bar in small 

 designs, costing from 25 cents to 371/^ cents a yard, may be used, and 

 a variety of styles of making are given to select from. Either of the 

 goods makes up prettily with tucks to form a yoke, a bit of insertion 

 or hand embroidery in the center front. The cross bar is lovely made 

 with a bias seam down the center front stayed with a piece of insertion 

 let in from the neck to hem, and a straightway seam down the back. 

 This design has neither gathers nor tucks and is especially dainty and 

 becoming. Bishop sleeves are prettiest for the slips. Make all wrists, 

 armholes and necks amply large ; six and a half inches is none too large 

 for a finished wrist, and ten and a half inches for the neck. Nothing is 

 so pretty with which to finish wrists and neck as narrow French Val. 

 Thirty to thirty-two inches is quite long enough for these slips. 



Instead of the night slips which are of cotton and designed to wear 

 over the flannel petticoat, I use flannel nightgowns of outing cloth 

 without the petticoat. This comes at 12^^ to 15 cents a yard. Have 



