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Updated: June 28, 2025
"The captain must go last, you know," laughed Harriet, as she climbed up to join them. By this time the girls were shivering with cold. The kimonos of washable crepe in which they had elected to sleep during the cruise afforded them little warmth. "Get close together and keep each other warm," called Miss Elting. "What! Sit down and shiver here all night long?" shouted Harriet. "No, indeed.
It is almost superfluous to say that she patched and mended the household garments, washed the most of things washable, sewed the sewable, darned the sock, and, generally, did-up the whole McKay family. When not engaged in definite or specific work, she had a chronic sock-knitting which helped to fill up and round off the corners of her leisure hours.
And then she remembered she was a Petticoat now, a lace, frilled Petticoat not one of those that Oliver Herford so pathetically dubbed "the short and simple flannels of the poor." Yes, she was now a Petticoat one of the aristocratic Cotton-Petticoats, washable, to be sure, but a dressy Frenchy Petticoat, and as such she must take her place on the family clothesline.
Go light when off for the woods, take with you only those things which seem to be absolutely necessary; remember that you will carry your own pack and be your own laundress, so hesitate about including too many washable garments.
Paints are on the whole less objectionable than colored chalks, because the crayons drop upon the floor and get trodden into the carpet. If children are properly clothed as they should be in simple washable garments, there is practically no difficulty connected with the free use of paints, and their educational value is, of course, very high.
In the modern school, the uniform whiteness and the washable quality of every object denote the triumph of an epoch in which the campaign against microbes would seem to be the sole key to human life.
Pictures form one of the richest sources of experience at this stage, as indeed at any stage of life, and truth, beauty and suggestiveness must be their chief factors. The toys should be above all things durable, and if possible washable. Broken and dirty toys make immoral children. Besides the material surroundings there are opportunities, the seizing of which gives valuable experiences.
Add to this a well-arranged dresser for blue or white kitchen china, with a closed cabinet for the heavy iron utensils which can hardly be included in any scheme of kitchen beauty; curtained cupboards and short window-hangings of blue, or "Turkey red" which are invaluable for colour, and always washable; a painted floor which is far better than oil-cloth, and one has the elements of a satisfactory scheme of beauty.
If considerable color has already been introduced into the room, the bed drapery, cover, and valance should be of some thin white washable material dimity, Swiss, and the like. But with plain papers, flowered cretonne, chintz, etc., are appropriate.
Next, there was a group of younger women, and of young men the men, almost without exception, wore spectacles and white washable ties. These were the skirmishers and the reserves. At one side, there was a little delegation in frock-coats and silk hats, and as Mr.
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