Tuesday, January 12, 1926
Clear and cold
Finished the little pants and put them on Ned and he looks so cute. He is proud of them, too. There never was a cuter prettier two year old. These pants are out of an old black dress skirt of mine with black straps over his shoulders. His little white top just shines. The boys were all feeling so joyous this evening. We could hardly get them settled down to go to bed. They are surely hard to manage when they all get on their high horses. Dick and Albert are usually that way but they are easy to quiet than Dale in his rarer sprees. I almost give up then.
(Aunt Marjorie wrote, "I guess Dale was pretty boisterous sometimes. I remember him when I was little as being more dignified, as being the oldest."
Indeed, as I commented yesterday, Grandma did use scraps of fabric and fabric from old garments to make clothes. Nothing was wasted.
Ned's "little white top" I think refers to him having very blond hair as a child. Marjorie said Dale used to call him "cotton top".
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My late mother, who was born in 1913, used the word "towhead" for that really blond hair.
ReplyDeleteShe may have been referring to a white shirt rather than his hair. If she was making pants out of good wool scraps I think she would make him a little white shirt to go with his new pants
ReplyDelete"The boys were all feeling so joyous this evening." What a wonderful way of looking at life!
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