Lined with mackintosh in this way, the frocks and nether garments are, of course, waterproof, so that the little people may wear them in the dew or even in a casual shower of rain without coming to any harm. Such mackintosh frocks and nether garments can be washed easily and dried quickly. We cannot help but feel that the keeping of a girl as old as 12 years and a boy of 11 years in such frocks and bloomers may be a case of taking things to excess, but our inform ant assures us that it is entirely satisfactory when children live in the country."

While, as I said, the fact that such Holland frocks or smocks were lined with waterproof material, mackintosh, does not really concern us in this story, yet this item has established the fact that such smocks on tunics were worn by be in boys almost in their teens. But it teresting to add a further comment about the rubber used in connection with these smocks on frocks, for it shows the sort of discipline children of that far off day endured, just in the ordinary course of events!

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The comment the above paragraph from the Ladies Home Book was as follows: "It is our belief that the use of mackintosh material for such garments is rational, but one cannot help

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feeling that, worn next to the skin with no undergarments they must have been clammy and often uncomfortable. We be sure that a large number of youngsters soon found themselves wearing brown or fawn frocks with bloomers made from the rubber-proofed fabric and with the rubber next to the skin." The commentator points out that this is confirmed in the next issue of the Ladies Home Book. "The advice given in our last edition on the subject of mackintosh frocks and nether garments for both boys and girls has provoked a great deal of correspondence. Many mothers and children's nurses have welcomed the idea, and several governesses have written with approval. One in particular has pointed out a fact about the garments. She writes, 'From time to time I find it necessary to chastise one on other of the four children placed in my care. Having had occasion to so chastise the two eldest, a girl of 9 and a boy of 10 for a misdemeanor, and for which I use a light rattan cane applied to the spot where Nature evidentally intended for the purpose, I found to my surprise that the blows, weiled with my usual force, did not seem to have the same effect as formerly. It became evident that the rubber with which their bloomers were lined was responsible. It was

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