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for thirty and forty years old. Everything becomes a slim, fresh wisp of a little maid her complexion can stand any shade her slen.ierness any eccentricity of line. Since all raiment for childhood is designed for childhood, nothing tried on is "too youthful and the little figure not yet having moulded itself into proportions that are not average proportions, it is the simplest matter in the world to fit the child. If one frock is too small, there is the next size larger— and there you are:

Not one mother In a score—it is safe to say—labors in the sewing room over childish wearables any more. Things are too easy to procure in pleasing styles and at attractive prices in the shops these days. In the small town or out in the country the home sewing room and the dressmaker by the day are still institutions and many little frocks are built according to graceful drawings or photographs in fashion magazines. These fascinating pictures, however have almost always as their original subject or inspiration the ready-made models in the shops, and the town mother finds it easier to buy the original readymade model than to reproduce it by painful effort, from a picture, and when the cost of fabric at retail and the services of a seamstress ere considered as opposed to the price of the ready-made frock, it will be found that making at home does not qp.ve so very much after all, especially in the less expensive sort of frocks. The prettiest little ginghams may be picked irp at a dollar and a half there are percale play frocks for even less smart tailored linen frocks for a trifle more.

Economy In Making Very Fine Frocks. It Is in the party frock, or the exquisite lingerie frock of cobwebby batiste, put together with hand stitches, that the modern mother economizes by doing the work at home. Such frocks are numbered among the exclusive, high-priced luxuries in the department store or specialty shop

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IQUL-D It were as delightfully I gery. A lovely little party frock of easy to provide the grown-up shadow lace over pink messaline, with

It I woman's summer wardrobe as it is that of the wee woman! In the case of the six-year-old— or even of the twelve-year-old, there are no troublesome questions about color, line, silhouette, suitability of smocked claims thirty-five dollars as style and other bogies that preside! its fair due. The mother knows that over the selection of summer toggery the material in the party frock is

rosebuds nestling against the pink ribbon sash is priced at the appalling figure of twenty-nine dollars a fairylike batiste frock, hand tucked and

worth perhaps nine dollars at generous estimate the several yards of soft batiste in the hand-smocked frock could not have cost more than four dollars. So the mother who desires to economize buys ready-made her little daughter's play and school frocks and makes with her own clever fingers the small creations that lend distinction to tb.e youthful wardrobe.

An example of the excellent values that the shops afford is illustrated in the white afternoon dress of lace and batiste. Tiny machine tucks add fullness between the bands of lace at the top of the frock, and all the lace, batiste, edging and embroidery in the costume are put together by machine. Were the stitches on this frock handstitches the little model would leap at once to ten times its three-dollar price. The low sash appears to bisect a straight, one-piece frock, but waist and skirt are really divided under the sash by a corded seam. The waist is fulled into the skirt at front and back and at the sides the skirt flares slightly. Panels of embroidery run between the two outer bands of lace entre deux in both waist and skirt and this trimming gives the frock its long, graceful lines. At the front of the skirt is a panel of batiste with two mitred bands of the lace insertion. It will be easy, another year, to lengthen such a frock by slipping in a strip of tucked batiste between the lace insertion and edging that finish the skirt. The sash is of pale pink messaline ribbon and is matched by a hair ribbon tied in a big chou at one side.

Waistlines High And Low. There is a division of opinion among mothers as to which is the fashionable waistline for childhood—the high Empire waistline, or the low Russian waistline. One or the other Is always used—never the normal waistline for the average little girl wearing a frock with a belt or sash around her normal waistline for some reason or other seems to have the silhouette of "Little Orphant Annie" whose traditional gingham frock, tight in the bodice and gathered to a waistband, as to

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ing to the picturesque and individual in their notions of childish dress favor the high waistline and there are many charming little frocks, some in the inimitable Dutch style, made in this way. The play frock pictured Illustrates the picturesqueness of the raised waistline on a little maid—and its quaint suggestion. This frock is of green chambray—that tried and true fabric which is the reliance of mothers because of its sturdy weave and its modest price. The frock is cut in kimono fashion, pleats over the shoulders adding sufficient fullness. The frock flares well from the armpits and the high belt of black velvet is held in place by stitched straps under the arms. The collar and cuffs are edged with narrow white lawn pleating and the frock buttons with pearl buttons. More buttons are added on the belt and on the cunning pockets a joy to the heart of small girlhood.

For an older girl the high-waistline is partly hidden under an overhanging bolero. High-waisted skirt and bolero are of stiawberry pink linen, the sleevelea3 bolero being fastened

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over the guimpe of tucked lawn, by narrow strings of black velvet. This frock is patterned after the Dickens idea of short jacket and straight, belt ed trousers, so fashionable for small boys of late. The cut of the skirt and its long panel, overlapped by inturning pleats carries out the straight trouser suggestion and the belted skirt rises over a severely cut, ungathered little waist—though to be sure the latter is of tucked lawn with a picot edge trimming at neck and sleeves.

In French Blue Linen.

An unusual and rather smart frock for a. girl of ten was noted the other day on a small miss in Central Park. The little girl's nursemaid was equally smart in her uniform of blue serge with cape-coat and tiny, streamered nurse's bonnet, but there is not space here for her costume in detail. Her active young charge fluttered about her in a very Parisian little creation of French blue linen with a flare skirt, circular in cut attached at the high waistline to a little peasant bodice no more than four inehes high and suppbrted by bands of the linen which passed over the shoulders. This tiny

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bodice and the shoulder-straps of blue linen were embroidered in black in a crude, peasant-like design of doti. dashes and squares. The very effective blue bodice was mounted over a fine white guimpe with collar and cuffs bound with blue linen. This small maJd wore white stockings and black pumps and a blue straw h:.t trimmed with black and white tailored bmvs of ribbon.

Another little girl with another smart nursemaid illustrated the vogue of low waistlines. She wore a loose smock of dull green linen over a skirt of green and white striped batiste. The smock was slashed at the sides and a sash of the striped batiste, passing underneath at the center-front, emerged through the slashes and was tied loosely at the back. A deep collar and turned back cuffs of white batiste were narrowly edged with green. The linen smock was slashed upward as far as the sash at its lower edge, showing the striped skirt at either side. This idea of an overhanging smock or jacket is very fashionable just now and is preferred to waist and skirt attached to a waistband under the usual sash. Many of the new lingerie dresses have Jackets, or even Jacket sections which overlap the belt in graceful effect. Sometimes the jacket is a bolero over a highplaced girdle again it is a long eton.

ETWEEN the fifteen-foot yard graced by an ungainly red lawnswing. and the spreading terrace balustraded in white and made gracious by white concrete benches set against masses of greenery there runs a thread of the same impelling motive—the desire to make the most of one's out-of-door environment and to set it apart as individual and distinctive, from the adjoining ground of one's neighbor.

More and more interest is being naid to the developing of beauty in the small yard. A stroll through any suburban town will demonstrate to the most casual observer how much may be done to improve a modest domicile with judiciously spaced shrubs and plants. One

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ing austerely back of its clipped lawn may be worth many thousands more than its neighbor, yet possesses no. half the charm and distinction of latter, artistically surrounded by hedges, shrubbery and blooming flower borders.

Usually it is wisest to employ the services of an expert landscape artist in planning the placing »of shrubbery and furniture in even a small acreage. A hit-or-miss arrangement will not be likely to have the dignity desirable, and experimenting is impossible with things that must be planted in the ground to stay. The finF~ed effect has to be conceived in the magination in the "mind's eye," so to speak and only the experienced landscape artist can build the completed garden in his mind, placing his groups of shrubbery, spacing his trees and flower beds so that the most of charm may be acquired in future perspectives. And it is surprising how quickly the garden perfects itself.

The furnishing of the lawn, or "the estate" if one owns enough ground to give it such an ambitious appellation, is not the least important feature of its attractiveness. The day of iron deer rampant, while imitation marble niobes peeping through greenery, and painted iron settees is gone, though these atrocities were high in favor in the Victorian era, lately revived in women's dress. Lawn decorations are very simple now and rather chaste in style. Pergolas arch over flower-bordered paths where there are long vistas a sun diai is a charming adjunct and the sun dial is most charming when set in a magic ring of flowers, a shady path opening, on

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the little glade, full of sunlight and I the color of the flowers. Rustic furniture is best for woodland settings formal white benches I for the formality of a clipped lawn

Against the dense green of low pine branches, or the glossy green of laurel, the curved white settee pictured would be delightful. The shape of this settee suggests a cosy chat and a tea table might be set within the

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with points overlapping a sash placed well below the natural waistline. Buttons and Hand Embroideries.

Buttons are used lavishly on the ready-made frocks at moderate price. More expensive little models have the button effect reproduced with embroidery or braiding but buttons are easy to sew on and, adroitly placed, they give the last touch of style to a simple little model so many a mother is buying inexpensive linen or batiste dresses and adding the buttons separately a3 a distinctive finish. A' dainty effect may be obtained also by combining two sorts of voile plain and crossbarred, or plain and striped voile. The two fabrics, put together with hemstitching produce an effect more distinguished than mere lace and embroidery. Flowered crepes are lovely for little girls and of course the tiniest, daintiest patterns are selected, little rosebuds on a tinted ground, sprigged patterns on white, and so

For The Wild Woodland Xook Rustic Furniture Is Best. half-circle made by the curve of the seat. Such an article of lawn furniture, placed against a clump of shrubbery, and under a shady tree, will lend distinction to lawn and house front.

There is a growing favor for white concrete lawn ornaments and these, even more than the white wood settees and benches, have a suggestion of Italian charm. Most people are familiar with the paintings of Alma Tadema in which beautiful youths and maidens recline on benches of brilliant white marble, set against dark flex trees or the deep blue of sea and sky. In landscapes which have the blue sea for a background the concrete furnishings are particularly effective, but against a woodsy background the slender lines of the white wocd seats and tables are more charming, Concrete benches are low ana Ions "v^d wither-^ backs in the Italian style. They mcy be placed against brick {r vine-co'-'ercd walls, low stone baiuslpQdes, or clumps of shrubbery. There are also urns and jars of the white concrete which are- immensely effective when well placed. Two of

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on. These frocks are trimmed with pleatings of white net and velvet ribbon sashes and bows. Flowered crepe launders well and is a most satisfactory fabric for childhood.

Street Togs That Are Correct. The girl of "flapper age"—between twelve and fifteen—must be given special attention, for this is the awkward age, the age when nothing fits right and skirts and sleeves are outgrown overnight, when the "flapper" herself feels all arms and legs and angles. Special outfitting shops for children do take special care of the "flapper." They call her the "junior," and Junior wearables are particularly graceful and charming. Note the simplicity yet perfect grace of the coat pictured: its good lines, its good.style. The coat is of tan cloth with white kid belt and collar and cuffs of white silk. For the "Junior" also is the smart sailor of red straw, trimmed with red and gray velvet ribbons and clusters ot clover and daisies.

the huge, squat white Jars, aei at either side of a flight of steps add. great dignity to the entrance. Con-v crete urns, set at intervals on a briclfiM wall, give formality and distinction to a terrace.

A new kind of garden furniture for the summerhouse is the familiar rustlo' birch sort with flat slab crosspleces changed a trifle in color. Hithertothe flat surfaces of this furniture have been left in natural tone and shellaced'

very smooth. Now these surfaces art tinted a rich forest gjeen before be-: ing shellaced. The contrast of th« green slats and the uprights of natural birch is very pleasing and there, is a roughness of suggestion about thla furniture that makes it ideal for thei out-of-door living room. There ars^ settees, rockers, benches, tables, desks, and other useful articles.

Of course the summer lawn musts have its hammock for lazy hours of irest or reading, though as a mattei |of unfortunate fa£t there are fews lawns within a radius of a hundred., miles of New York City where oha could swing in a hammock untormented by mosquitoes. These pests hava taken away somewhat from the sentimental charm of the hammock out under the trees but even mosquitoes have their seasons and when the wind* is right there are hours when the• hammock is a desirable adjunct .of ,f the summer home. A swinging bed-. hammock with bright cushions and an awning overhead is very ornamental under a clump of trees and adds greatly to the cosy comfort oj a shady nook.

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