Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 348
ers, put off tby Hat, make a Leg.— Janua Linguarum, Comenius, 1664. Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes beforethey can put them on — Essay on Human Understanding, Locke, 1687. When thou thyself a watery, pulpy, slobbery Freshmanand newcomer on this Planet, sattest mewling in thy… … CHAPTER X THE DRESS OF OLD-TIME CHILDREN HEN we reflect that in any communitythe number of the younger sort isfar larger than of grown folk, when weknow, too, what large families our an-cestors had, in all the colonies, we mustdeem any picture of social life, any his-tory of costume, incomplete…
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