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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2391, 5 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Londoners are suffering from a plague of mosquitoes. Jack—Ah, Miss Kate, it’s the little things that tell. Miss Kate—Yes; little brothers and sisters.

A London company has ordered three hundred cars to bo run by electricity instead of horse-power. Dresses i-'oit Children'. —To keep children’s dresses in pood order and suitable variety involves never ending labour. In renovating costumes, wonderful efforts can be produced by the judicious use of a yard of velveteen, plush, or velvet, cut up to form a new collar, cuffs, and band to trim the remodelled|dros.s. Ribbed velveteen is much used for the inexpensive costumes, and looks very pretty when combined with a shade to match in woollen material. The skirt should be made of the velveteen, which also trims the bodice. Frocks with full skirts and lougwaistod bodices are again becoming fashionable for little girls of seven or eight years. A good model can ha made of cashmere, or later of wash goods ; the full skirt is mounted with gathers, a second row of gathers about three inches below the first, keeping the skirt flat over the hips ; a short pntf is added to the back. The sleeves are gathered and finished off with deep cuffs. Beautiful dresses can bo made from the great varieties of cotton goods with which the shops abound. Etamine is shown in great variety ; some with (.ream color grounds, figured with cardinal or blue, are extremely pretty, and inexpensive. These made up with ribbon bows matching the design in color are pretty, and if made at homo the cost is a mere nothing. White is always pretty, whether of woollen goods of the soft creamy shades or of the various cotton materials so lavishly displayed. Ginghams are shown in endless variety. Those always wash well, if bought in good quality, and arc extremely pretty, the soft shades combining so exquisitely in the stripes, plaids and changeable, varieties shown. Coloured embroideriesioan be used for trimming these or plain white as a contrast, if preferred.