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FOR SUMMER WEATHER.
COATS AND FROCKS.
PARIS.
For summer weather one of the necessities is, paradoxically, a good
it and a flat nosegay in the middle of the front. These spotted drosbes can be varied easily by means of senming and touches of white. I Worth has revived a good many of the old-fashioned methods, such as ruching and close pleating. A dress for the dull days is in lark blus erepe with half-length bell sleeves and or large revers, combined cont. A silk cont ties the wearer to certain garments, even though with a crossover bodice, all tho it has the quality of lightness. edges being trimmed with blue Hore and there may be found a rucking, which encloses white spot- coat of corded silk which, parti-ted material. The rucking is car cularly in dark blue, goes with ried on below the belt to make a light and Bimsy frocks. A kuot or point on one hip, and the dress is tin at the back of the neck gives worn with a smart little blue beret, something of the elegance of the For really hot occasions, on the other hand, there is a black-and- wig-tic, and if the coat is cut on redingote lines without a belt it white chiffon frock with a cowl has a touch of eighteenth-century wreck, close hips, and a skirt which smartness. A long black coat has is very much fuller on one vide, *han so much of an advantage in suit the other. The long sleeves have ing almost every kind of frock conspicuous puffs at the elbow. The that it has to be chosen with all belt has a flower motif all round it. the greater discretion. Thin binck wool goes with silk and wool alike and can oven be worn with some of the cotton frocks. Textile counts for a great deal, and a mossy surface gives a richness to the tone which is very helpful to the complexion. Some of the long black costs are cut on slightly redingote lines, fastening with a tis 00 one hip The temptation to have a large white collar issue cumbed to by Worth in one or two
inverted, and dress has what is interesting forms. In ብር thas rodingote has a collar of white almost a bolero top, cut short and with only half-sleeves. This aur broadtail cut un Rat, shawl lines. There are also small euffs of broad-mounts n white vest and white tail. The other cont, which is very under-sleeves, while the rest of the summery indeed, is on tho sumo lues, but the collar can stand up dress is black. The same thing is
Revers, puffed sleeves, yokes that differ in colour from the rest of the dress are all pleasant little diversions in this collection. The top of a black dress, including the upper part of the shoulders, is in white, lod into the rest of the bodies in zigzaga, the join being treated amusingly with apricot and grey colouring. This also has a flowered
belt, and the fullness of the skirt in
the middle front pleating. In an other dress the mixed colouring is
at back and is made of the mate carried out in black-and-whito
rial, whereas quasi revers are exstripes, the stripes being set to tended to become & part-alwl collar of white piqué. This buttons make Va all down the skirt by
The
on smartly just at the shoulder! line, the three buttons outlining the curve of the shoulder. collar tucks in low down and pro- trudes on the hip in the form of a tie. Both these coats provide that amount of warmth which is frequently needed throughout the more summery days, and they yet retain an appearance of freshness and coolness.
Afternoon frocks, both for garden party and for more ordinary occa- ensions, become very important at this time of year. They tray ba wanted for hotels' or they may be wanted for home events in the country. Worth shows a black dress made of fish-not, the neck of which and the short puffed sleeves are trimmed with rosettes of Irish Ince. This is only one instance in which Irish is seen conspicuously, and it alto an instance of the necessity for using it in A
rather snart
than pretty Benko A collar with points and studded with rosettes decorates this dress, while there are merely two rows of the rosettes, round the edge of the sleeves. With the short sleeves are warm gauntleted gloves of the Irish lace. A black suede bug with silver fittings goes with this toilette, with which is also worn a large white capelline hat, trimmed with plain black ribbon. This is a dress that could be worn for almost any ocenasion but for mornings.
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While spots have to some extent run their course, this does not pre- vent them from being very young and pretty both in silk and in cotton. Worth has a rather young dress with short puffed sleeves and a bodico with a crossover piece ter- minating in a point, made of sky- blue silk with fairly large white dota. The dress has a sporran of
pleats in front and the bodico and means of a central scam. A dress
leoves are trimmed with an old-with very pointed revers
BOME-
hioned white ruching. This belt times has a third, just below these
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ECONOMY HABITS IN THE
NURSERY.
A Mother who has had to face certain coonomies in her home
budget astounded me the other day
also is white. This, too, is worn in the middle. Under the revers is with the remark: My boy must with a large white hat of shep-often a brightly coloured scari,
herdess shape with a ribbon round which looks as though it were never know that we have to be
threaded in and out. Another economical now-we do not want method in afternoon frocks is to him to bother about such worries
| have one big gathered ravors, which
in his school days."
Bo she goes on sending pocket- money as usual. Surely this is a mistaken attitude?
is pulled out over the cost. There are blobs or pouches ab the elbows, and these in their turr are pulled through a slits in the cout elbows. Thus a plain blue cont is made very gay with a flowered frock having these appendages. Some of the lighter frocks have tussore conta which, though they are smarter, re-money they receive must do until call the old dust coat. The tussore another date, then they gradually
If children are taught at eight of nine years old that the pocket.
is on mannish lines, with a double learn how to make it do-baving breast and slanting patch pockets
and revers.
Belted, it looks very gathered, protty quickly, that to neht and serves to cover a fuffy shout for more is of no avail dress. A few of the "dressed"
summer dresses have a coat-like. It cannot be for the good of any appearance, which nevertheless reboy or girl to grow up An ignorance moins light in suggestion. Fuited for a parent's troubles and diment sleeves sometimes have long narrow ties. All children respond so readi. under-sleeves. A dress of thick
cope may be made in this wayly to the confidence and comrade with puffed sleeves. of white lace, ship of their fathers and mothers, Onishing, down the whole length, and begin, in this way, to know with the black material. A big
shawl collar of the white lace pro- what real sympathy means.
vidos all the rest of the decorative .clement." Long wrapover dresses of
marocain' are made on these lines,
Too Many Rose Lervés.
with only a few pleats in the front The paths of growing boys, and to break the straightness of the girls that have been strewn with skirt Boleros are many, and they endless rase leaves from earliest ir. may be finished with huge nigger fancy generally lead them to hard cuff and a turned-down collar.and callous young manhood and The holera idea also persists in the womanhood the modern type with bodies which wraps across ending whom we are all becoming so fami In a point.
liar,
M.H.
The "moderns" do not care much
for their parents troubles, but they would have done if they had known' a little more about them in earlier
days.
As a mother I know that it is a mistake to make everything too easy for our children-it is a bud pre- paration for the battle of life later on. And the management of money is the hardest lesson for them to
loara.
Earm Before Spending.
Money always seems much more valuable when you earn it yourself,
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ly suitable winter dish. Endless ad this to the soup and sonson to ingenuity may be exercised in the taste. choice of ingredients, and once it Remove the flesh of the cooked has been tried it will always be haddock from the skin and hones welcomed on the table. Here are and place at the bottom of the soup,
a few recipes, and on their basis tureen. Pour the soup over this. any number of savoury, and econo- and garnish with fingers of fried mical broths may in made,
bread,
Autumn Hotch Potch-Cut four pounds of neck of mutton into small pieces. Boil and skim, and add carrots, turnips, leeks and parsley, sliced and chopped. Seà- son with pepper and salt, and if rise for barley is liked these must be boiled an hour before the other ingredients are 'added,"
Poacher's Soup.-Cut up a young rabbit into 15 or 18 pieces, adding to it any other game which you may } have and a small piece of bacon, chopped in dien. Place in threa pints of water, adding celery, onion, paraloy, peppercorns and potatoes, When the soup boils throw in one small cabbage, quar tered. Beason and let it simmer. until the game it tender. Smali suct dumplings inny be cooked with
Fish Soup is delicious, but the "stock" mu
must always be used im diately, as it will hot keep. Take a large fresh haddock, trim it and place it with the trimmings in slightly salted water. When the fish is cooked remove and set on one side. Now strain the stock and re- turn to the pan. Mix some "rice flour to`s paste in a cupful of-milk-i