“March 3, 1916. 
» . || JUDY O’GRADY’S PAGE 
Fashion and Household Suggestions | 
“NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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~The Small Girl’s Spring Wardrobe. 
QNE-PIECE frocks seem to be the 
_~ mode for the small. girl’s spring 
clothes. For the very small girl, the 
‘baby girl, in fact, there are new and 
delightfully simple rompers cut in 
one piece and buttoned on the should- 
er. These have no superfluous gath- 
ers and belts and elastics, just holes 
eut for the wee legs and arms—as 
simple as a paper doll’s dress. For 
the five-year old is a little, smocked 
play frock that is also cut in one 
piece. The opening is on the front 
where the fold of the goods comes 
and two groups of smocking in front 
with one in back furnish all the trim- 
ming needed for such adress, if we 
except the plain white collar and 
cuffs. A similarly. made frock has 
the fold of the goods and the open- 
ing in the back and is for the slightly 
older sister, eight years old, perhaps 
A square cut neck in front with a 
collar coming only to the corners and 
smocking across the front gives the 
effect of a panel front. Smocking 
fits the shoulders and the sleeves at 
top and wrist. A new frock for the 
girl of about a dozen years has belts 
cut in one with the back and front 
panels. Simplicity is the very key- 
note of these frocks, although it is of- 
ten attained by a little hand work ex- 
~quisitely done, rather than by much 
indifferently done. 
A suit with separate skirt and coat 
comes also for the over-ten little girl 
and is sure to delight her with its 
“srown-up air. The coat which is 
finished with wide, flat collar and 
wide cuffs has also box plaits coming 
outside the narrow leather belt. 
Patch pockets adorn the plaits. Both 
the coat and the skirt are flared. Top 
coats are as yet not so very different 
from those of the fall except in ma- 
terial, of course. Faring lines in 
these meet the demands of fashion 
and the smart notes of cape and poc- 
year. 
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164 Main Street, Gloucester 
ket are not lost sight of. Combina- 
tions of checks and plain materials 
may be used for the small girl’s coats 
as well as for mothers and these com- 
binations offer opportunities for 
original schemes in trimming. 
The Hats and Bonnets. 
S for the hat, who shall say that it 
is least, even if last, in point of 
consideration? For the wee maid 
there are scores and scores of bonnets, 
enough of them to drive a doting 
mother to the point of madness. 
They are baby bonnets, dressed up 
with chiffon and lace and roses to a 
quite grown up sophistication. <A 
pink silk bonnet was finished with 
cream lace and helter-skelter rosebud: 
and bows. A hat that the next sister 
is sure to want, is small and made of 
braid, sewed ’round and ’round, and 
is topped with loops and loops of rib- 
bon—not too wide. Another charm- 
ing hat is a little drooping affair of 
rose, trimmed only with a posy or two 
and a band of narrow ribbon which 
becomes a long, long streamer on the 
left side. For the tailored lass there 
is a plain round soldier hat with a 
stiff cockade in the middle of the 
front. 
Spring Cleaning by the Day. 
HE dread time approaches at the 
loveliest season of the year when 
our homes will be torn up, our meals 
neglected and our choicest possessions 
forever lost during the process ot 
“spring cleaning.” It seems but yes- 
terday that the cold winds of autumn 
blew about our unprotected heads 
while with windows open and all the 
furnishings that make for comfort in 
the home (pillows, rugs and drap- 
eries) hanging on the line, the powers 
that be did the fall cleaning. Never- 
theless, the calendar tells us that it 
will soon be time for another up- 
heaval unless something intervenes. 
Think it Over 
~ "THE balance wheel in your watch vibrates 157,680,000 times in one 
You can readily understand why a watch is injured by running 
it longer than two years without cleaning and fresh oil. 
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It is for the purpose of intervening 
that this article is to appear in black 
and white (perhaps!). 
There are several ways of clean- 
ing house. There is the way of the 
woman whose ambition for work ‘is 
so much greater than her capacity for 
accomplishment that she takes up the 
rugs and takes down the pictures and 
the hangings in three or four rooms 
in a fine frenzy of work. Furniture 
is covered with ghostly sheeting and 
confusion reigns supreme, while the 
scrubbing of paint and the cleaning 
of windows and floors goes merrily 
on. And then comes meal time and 
the tired husband and family. — Noth- 
ing has been finished; everything is 
in a state of upheaval and the woman 
whose first considerations are for her 
family, has forgotten that even if she 
is too tired to eat the appetites of the 
other members of the household are 
the same wunconquerable appetites 
that they have been through all these 
years. Her passion for cleanliness 
leads her to these extremes. 
Then there is the woman who 
cleans house with such apparent: in- 
efficient, hard work,—inefficient, that 
is, because it brings forth such small 
result in return for the labor expend- 
ed. Her house is always half cleaned, 
it seems. Her laudable ambition to 
save wear and tear on her husband’s 
pocket-book is the cause of her weak- 
ness. 
Each of these types of houseclean- 
ing women has. her good_ points 
which could be made into- positive 
virtues. For the woman who attacks 
her work with such vigor, there is 
every hope in the world of a safe and 
sane housecleaning. Let her tear to 
pieces in her mad career only. one 
room at a time. Let the rugs be 
cleaned, let the curtains be washed, 
dried and ironed, let the paint be 
scrubbed, let the pictures be taken 
down and cleaned and then let all 
these things be replaced the same day. 
It can be done and when night comes 
it will bring witn it a sense of accom- 
plishment that is not felt when sit- 
ting down to a “cold snack” in the 
bosom of the family. For the wom- 
an who wears out patience and mus- 
cle in the endeavor to save dollars 
there is the open door to competence 
and comfort. Co-operation is her 
salvation and should be her watch- 
word. Perhaps she has a married 
sister in the same position (it is a 
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