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THE OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: MAT 2H, 3007.
CHILDREN CHANGED IN TYPE
Th Fashion Htw it for Thin Utt and
Btraicbt Hair.
GONE ARE THE RINGLETS AND CHUBBINESS
I tho Chant Dw to tka Artist of
Cblldrea or to Mtltra Math.
o4a of Brtaslns Vp Child
ren Srlratlfleallr t
The fashion In children bag chanred.
There Is quaint humor In the thought
that should tickle even a sociologist and
set hlra on lightsome spoculattona.
For wa ara not deallnc. mind you, with
tha ponderous, patriarchal aspect of the
subject. Wo all know that tha food old
fashioned family of anywhere from ten to
twenty-two children would now he held to
be aa out of place aa an uproarious lauirh
or a burst of sobs, and that aa to the
vexed queatlon of upbringing such maxima
aa "spare tha rod and spoil the child" and
"children should be seen and not heard"
are now very much out of date. !
No! It la not the metaphyseal, satlstlcal, j
pessimistic phase of the question which Is
under discussion, but Just the superficial '
side of It with which artists bare to deal,
the actual change of fashion as to whst I
the admired type of child should be. j
Mothers, If they have not already made the i
discovery, will please take notice.
The change In fashion seems to be chiefly 1
In the matter of hair and Ices. Once upon
a time a robust cupld or a neat fairy In
ringlets was the sort of child worth bonst.
Ins; of. Now an awkward little thing on
plpestems with straggling locks Is earnestly
admired. Straight hair was once almost
a deformity. Most folks over 30 enn re
member tha trouble, not to say disgrace,
that beset a straight haired child and its
mother, the taunts they suffered and the
torments, In the line of artificial aids to
son for the complete change In tha physical
type, we have a situation of the s:entlat
Irony. Here we have a small person who
Is surrounded from his birth by the In
orable laws of sanitation Everything Is
sterilised from Its food to Its clothing.
The period at which It begins Its athletic
training la Sometimes as early as 3 months,
but fresh air and cold baths are always
on tap and lunches between meals are
discouraged from the very beginning.
later It Is coased gently Into study by all
manner of pleasant bypaths from kinder
gartens to nature study clauses, and Its
amusements are legion. Including a wealth
of picture books and every toy that human
Ingenuty can Inveat.
And yet the modern artist draws the
and acts of the child which la now rife."
modern child thin, shapeless, hesitating,
restrained, pensive and wistful. Take he
other aide of tha picture. Aa Mr. Earlo
says:
"Tha old tlma child waa of aa little Im
portance In domestic, social or ethical re
lations as his childish successor Is of great
Importance today. There was none of that
exhaustive study of the motives, thoughts
The theories which governed his physical
being would now be thought destructive
to a degree. In all the old time behavior
books the hands and face were the only
portions of his body which a child was
urged to wash, but there was a curious
hardening fancy Introducod by Leoehe
which demanded that the child's shoes
should be so thin that thoy might leak
and let In water, by which means he would
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curllness, such as rags, papers and In
numerable tiny braids, not to mention
curls made with sonp and baked before
the Are. Similarly tha possession of a
child with a handsome round leg and a
amall foot was a bleralng to mako envious
those mothers who had Infinite trouble In
keeping up tha stockings on their thin
legged offspring.
Times have changed IndeoJ. The modern
Infant as drawn by popular Illustrators
has usually straight hair cropped smartly
about the neck and fashion seems to be In
favor of a spindling, knockknet-0'. pigeon
toed affect about the legs which Is fondly
supposed to embody tlio Innocent weakness
and naive awkwardness of childhood. Thlv
fancy for aboriginal turned in tos proves
that hs snip snaps lire banished as
severely as all the other bogles, for they
used to be a most effective discourager
of toeing In when some savape bachelor
uncle threatened with suggestive clashing
of tha big paper shears to call them In to
snip off the offending toot.
Tou may see the modern types of child
In books and magazine Illustrations, charm
ingly cotnlcal, with all the angular uncer
tainty of limb, the awkward wlstfulnues of
a puppy. The old type, beautifully rounded
and finished with cherubic face and t'.iu
gruce of a kitten, will be found In engrav
ings and old pictures.
Has tha childish physique really changed,
or la tha vision of the artist, aided by pub
llo sentiment, entirely responsible for the
change In the child type? Perhaps you
may think that the noble children of the
old Italian masters were Ideal, but last
summer a veritable Raphael cherub was
eon toddlng about a Vermont orchard.
Ilia parents came from tha north of Italy
to be aure, but there was the beautiful
creature of some three ycara with dancing
gold brown curls and niagnlncont limbs
and body kindly displayed by his one little
open garment.
Burely, one does sometimes see trim,
graceful little girls with tapering, neatly
finished legs, though It must be confessed'
that crops of ringlets are now very raro.
It la possible that tha very difficulty of
reaching tli ringlet Ideal may have been
the cause of Its downfall aa a fashion. A
surfeit of little Lurd Fauntleroy curls Im
mediately preceded the present universal
cropping.
It cannot be denied that tha art of Kate
Oreauaway had a positive and wide reach
ing Influence on the externals of child lite.
Bhe actually Inspired a much needed re
form In the comfort and simplicity of chil
dren's clothes by her revival of tha lovable
fashions of 1X00. and her tender way of de
picting tha unconscious charm and simple
helplessness of childhood was a revelation.
But she did not sacrifice beauty to humor.
This can scarcely be said of Boutet de
Mouvel, who, though he owed much to
Kate Oreenaway, was la a stricter sense
the founder of the modern school. In his
demurs little awkward figures there Is a
world of meaning.
They ara full to running over with tha
humor of chlldllfe and express Ita amo
tions, though the drawtna of a hea I Is
merely a simple oval with two dots for
nose and some delicate accents for eyes
and mouth. In a letter published In the
Century Mouvel explains his method of
representing children thus:
"I have learned that there la one alt Im
portant element which we must seek In
everything which we would reproduce, and
which for want of a more definite word we
may call soul, tha spirit of the object rep
resented. In comparison with this sense of
individual character all els la unimpor
tant." tf this grasp of the character, the soul,
of tha modern cMld, such as tha modern
artist represents It to be, la the real rea-
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Besides the terrific doses of dnigs with
which his system was wrecked, he was
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nostrums. One of the principal Ingredi
ents of Venice trends was vipers, and
snail water was a trusted remedy for many
Ills. Children, both boys and girls, were
drcsted In every Item exactly like their
Totliers and mothers, and boys were kept
i: "coata" until 4H or C years old, which
;;cana that they woro the long petticoat
and apron of a grown woman.
Learning, which was ardently desired,
was acquired by the hardest labor. From
hornbook and primer the small scholar j
stepped straight into the Latin grammar, I
which he was expected to master even If!
he went through the book twenty times.
Mrs. Earle tells of a minister who, while
he was shaving each morning, had his
little son, aged S, stand on a footstool by
his dressing table and read Latin to him.
The father also had a copy of the book
open before him that, he might correct
errors and sometimes was so angered at
what he thought the boy's slowness of
progress and bad pronunciation that he
would throw the book at the child and
once felled htm from the footstool to th4
floor. This was discipline, and of It the
old time child had full and plenty, of every
degree and variety from "thlmel pie."
which was a smart rap on the head from a
heavy thlmblo, to an application of the
rod, which was a bundle of birch twigs.
No moral suasion in his lot.
"Children were tauffht a profound respect
of their parents, teachers and guardians
and Implicit, prompt obedience." They were
also thoroughly drilled In manners and
courtesy. The amusing picture book was
unknown, but Instead they wera regaled
with such literature aa this: "A Token for
Children, Being an Exact Account of the
Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lires and
Joyful Deaths of Several Toung Chlldrera."
There was scant time allowed for play,
and diligence In some really useful occupa
tion such as chores for the boys and sewing
and other household tusks for tha little
girls waa early Insisted upon, .They had
only the simi le gumes which had been
handed down from remote antiquity and a
few crude toys, and yet with all these
drawbacks to a carefree childhood they are
made to appear plump, rosy, actlva and
Joyous.
What Is the explanation? Have children
fa'Iy chang d and may the aprarer t anom
aly bo Justified by the theory that the
old-time child, robust and hearty In spite of
hurdshlps. Is an example of the survival of
the fittest, while the modern child, delicate
and discontented, shows tha avtl results of
too much pampering? Or are the arttsts
entirely responsible for it In their effort to
record the changing fashions In childish
hair and legs?
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