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CHILDREN'S DRESS.

^PICTURESQUE §TYLES GIVING WAY TO SIMPLE DESIGNS.

Ofrl* and Boya Now Have Fashions of Thai* Own—These Admit of Freedom of Motion and Are Otherwise Suited to Little

People.

It is rumored, and the early autumn styles accentuate the rumor, that ohil dr_u are to have fashions

DRESS FOR YOUNG GIRL.

tractiveness of children. Most deplorable of all, however, are clothes that impede the freedom of movement. This is a point that cannot be too seriously considered. It is quite depressing to see a little child so dressed that she cannot run and jump. The first essential in the child's costume should be its ease. And a curious indifferenoe to the advantages of civilization is shown when the lace or silken drapery, tight oollar or intrusive belt stand in the way of a good skip.

The reefer jaoket and plain serge skirt so popular this season is one of the best possible styles for children, especially when oompleted by one of the popular blouse shirts with turndown collars and bows. But even in the case of the skirt and ooat style individual appropriateness ought to have a hearing, for this style is more especially suited to children who are thin. For those who are stout the loose dress with the yoke may be adopted with complete success, while those who are awkward in their movements should be oarefully dressed in a blouse made in the old fashioned style, with three box plaits from neck to hem, neatly belted round the hips with a leather or suede belt This style, of course, when all made in one piece, is only suitable up to the age of 7, but the jacket bodice, cut on the same lines, worn with a plain skirt, may be induced to do service until childhood merges into young womanhood.

For dress occasions simple designs are readily made ornate by a dressy sleeve and the application of extra triraming. In illustration may be cited a costume in fine woolen material, with a bodice fashioned with a short crosscut basque. The turndown collar opens in front ovor a vest trimmed with bands of embroidery. The double puffed sleeves are also divided with an embroidered band, and collar and skirt are similarly adorned.

For little boys not yet in trousers the three piece Buit of jacket, underblouse and skirt is simple, convenient and comfortable. This model may be made entirely of cheviot, or the skirt and undorblouse may be in flannel. For dressy oocasions silk may be employed.

In Now York many little girls still wear the guimpe dress. This consists of a tight fitting bodice, out square back and front, reaching to the waist, onto which the full skirt is gathered, while the guimpe, which is often white, is mado with full slooves gathered into tight ouffs. The bodices are trimmed in various ways, sometimes bearing braoes of ribbon to tie on the shoulders, at other times giving evidence of the in-

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us try of the mothers, with hand embroidery in the front, the embroidery again appearing on the hem of the full skirt*

But it ia not alone the children's frocks which claim attention. Their petticoats are matters for thought. The white petticoat is par exoellenoe the petticoat of childhood, and a pretty but by no means economical way of making this is with a deep bodice and a flounoe trimmed with abroad band of torchon insertion, a hem of cambrio and a frill of torohon, the torchon to be

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PIECE8 AS STUDIES.

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Secret of Rapid PrafNH In Piano Playing Is Versatility. Experienced teachers agree that the jilaying of

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pupil accustomed to spend

all or pearly all her time upon exeroiaee and studies having merely the form of pieces without their spirit is far less musical and spontaneous than that of those accustomed to playing a variety of well written compositions.

Nevertheless tbe study has certain advantages which oome more easily to it than to a piece. A study is taken as a duty and practiced as duty. Apiece is primarily pastime, and if practiced as pastime but little more than pastime will oome out of it. What is the solution of this difficulty? Is it that we must go on relying upon studies for all the serious part of the pupil's work? "Not at all," is the reply of a writer in The Musical Record, who sayB:

We must contrive to bring to the aoquistion of pieces the same qualities of mental attention and seriousness that oome of their own acoord in the oase of studies. When this is done, and when the subject matter of the leesons is intelligently diversified for shaping the playing in order to modify it in this direction or the other, the pieces will, be found to afford much more profitable material for study than "Etudes," by no matter how many eminent writers, always excepting the Chopin works. The teacher who undertakes to forward the student by the use of pieoes, without other help than the technical exercises, immediately onoounters the difficulty of collecting a suitable repertory of material.

There are pieoes which the student likes on first hearing. These, as a rule, are of but little use to him. There are other pieoes of a hidden beauty, suoh as the works of Schumann, Chopin and the like. To expect a student of tender years to like one of these is wrong. What we need is to select the pieoe with reference to its compatibility with the student's temperament or possibilities and then assign it as study at the proper moment. As study it will hold the serious attention. Later, when its inner correspondence of spirit shall have had time to make itself felt, the student will find himself liking tbe pisoe, whkli at first he regarded merely as exercise. A student rnoonsciously learns many points about musical form by memorizing pieces of different kinds.

All playing and all music writing may be divided into about three categories—theuatic, wherein the discussion of a theme is the question lyrio, where the proper delivery of melody is the question, and brilliant, where it is a question of passages of one kind or another. There might well be still another class, which, for want of abetter word, we might call effect, where tone coloring and keyboard command are the essential elements. To specify, fugue is the type of all pieces in which a theme is discussed. A Chopin or Schumann nocturne or a Beethoven cantabile is the type of all high grade melody playing. Liszt's concert pieces and those of Tahlberg are the types of brilliant pieces for the pianoforte. There are some of these which turn upon what is called effect. Liszt's "Waldesrauchen" is one of these. To teaoh music is primarily to familiarize the pupil with the great types of musio mentioned and to exercise him over and over again in each one of them until he beoomes himself musical in turn.

Cushion For Travelers.

A cushion, light and portable, adds not a little to the comfort of travelers, whether the journey be by rail or wa-

EMBROIDERED TRAVELING CUSHION. ter. On a sea voyage a cushion of some sort is almost indispensable, and the one here described and originally designed for The Housewife is well suited to the purpose.

The cushion is about 24 inohes long and 16 inches wide. Two pieoes of kid or material of this size are therefore required. Only one of these is embroidered. The other side is left plain. The cushion is filled with down, and the edges are finished off with silk oord, a handle of the oord or of ribbon being joined to the cushion on one side. The cushion, especially if covered with kid, is exceedingly light and portable.

The Weapon of Silenoe.

Of course the tongue is a weapon, but not so sharp as silenoe. A woman who nan hold her tongue* can hold any other thing, but one who wears her heart on her sleeve will let all other things slip through her fingers. Silenoe is self preservation at every point Too often a ready, sharp tongue is a fatal gift to a woman, and men fear it, for it finds out the rawest spots in their natures and wounds them there. As for a bad tongue, it is whetted on a bad heart, and women who willingly say words crueler than blows have the weapon of an assassin.

A Parsnip Stew.

Parsnip stew is not a new dish, but it is so old that it maybe new to many. Boil 3 lean slices of salt pork hours scrape 5 large parsnips cut in slices add to the pork boil one-half hour add half as much potato, sliced thin as parsnip boil all together until potatoes axe soft. There should be about a cupful of liquid in the stew when ready to servo. No exact measure of water oan be given, because it boila away so much faster somfe days than others. Begin with 2 quarts of cold water and add more wans if it beoomes neoMwtj.

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As a rule, these cozy corners are made to order, so that the oushions, enamel of the woodwork, eta, may harmonize with other furnishings of the apartment far

whioh it is destined. A popular size for these oomers is 4 feet by 2 feet 8 inohes, outside measure.

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BED CANOPIES AND CURTAINS,

Beoeat Revival of a Popular Fashion of Bygone Days. Fashion* oome and fashions go, and dow we find the pendulum is swinging back again, and a desire is shown for canopied beds. The popular expression & the present, however, does not run in direction of the full tester, but is mther for that known as the half tester If-l a, abed provided with a oanopy at {fee headboard, from which the curtains are suspended.

The beds of brass are the ones most in favor for draping. The usnal gray coloring of cretonne harmonizes with the high lights of the burnished brass.

Deoorator and Furnisher delineates a simple method of draping, a mode ohar-

EMPIRE STYLE OF DRAPING.

acteristio of the empire style now so much in favor, the beds of the Napoleon era having been usually placed in the manner here shown, with one side to the wall. As will be seen, the curtain is made in one long strip and is thrown over two projecting poles fastened to the wall. The front swag and jabots should be attached separately and may be omitted entirely. Sometimes one pole in the center is used instead of the two, or a oanopy may be employed in the usual manner, from which to suspend the curtains.

The variations in methods of treatment are numberless. Artistic effects fortunately are not dependent upon expensive fabrios. Among low priced fabrics suitable are silkaline ohintz, plain and tamboured ^muslins and dotted swiss. When muslins are used, ribbon trimming may be employed. Handsome spreads are in order, and those gifted in the direction of embroidering have here exoellent opportunities to exeroise their talent. ,,

Portable Cosy Corners.

A great deal has been said and written concerning cozy corners, and yet many readers are doubtless in ignorance of the fact that there are portable cor-

HANDSOME OOZY CORNER.

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Ribbon Trimmings.

Ribbons play an important part in the trimming of youthful gowns also on dinner and ovening dresses for all ages. Ribbon 2 inches wide is required for this garniture. Moire ribbon is preferred, but satin is also used. The collar and belt are of ribbon to match. Black ribbon is most used with black, blue or brown dresses, white with gray or beige, and delicate colors are chosen for white muslin and light lawns, batiste, eta A popular garniture is in form of bretellas, starting from the belt in front under a horizontal bow, passing over the shoulders* where they are tied in fanciful knots, then down the back to meet two rosettes at the belt This much is familiar. The novelty is in the continuation of the ribbons, two behind and two before, to the foot of the skirt, where each end is tied in a smart square bow.

A Novel Tomato Salad.

Numbered with the many other excellent recipes sent out by Good Housekeeping is the following: Take as many firm, ripe, round tomatoes as there are persons to serve. Pour over them boiling water remove the skins and place tomatoes on ice. Chop fine two onions and grate a cucumber. Mix these ingredients, after salting and peppering, with a small quantity of thick mayonnaise dressing. Scoop out the cores of the tomatoes and fill with she mixture. Place on lettuce leaves and pour over the red tomatoes the golden dressing. This makes a nice course served wit'i wafers or cbeeee straws.

ISngltoh Fruit Fte.

When it is desired to make a fruit pie, by all means adopt the English fashion of an abundance of frail and very little uastry.

For suoh pies a deep dish, filled to the brim with fruit and with no lower artist, is the ideal. It far nurpasoos the tonal plan of a thin layer of apples, berries or other fruit between two crusts. This, by the way, is not accepted in Hingiand as a pia, bat is called a tart, no matter what its drcumfereooe may nxapttra.

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FAULTS IN PLANO PLAYING.

Common Sense Bemediee Suggested by an Experienced Mujde Teacher. With many pupils the two hands do not strike together, the left hand usually anticipating the right. It produces a bad effect and is in a measure caused by a sluggish, singing way of oounting time. To remedy this common fault Professor Held says in The Etude: Set your music nerves in strict rhythmical motion by counting aloud a measure or two before playing. Make your counts short and crisp, imitating the click of a clock, or, better, of a metronome, and accent strongly the first beat and in double time slightly the middle beat of a measure. Scales and unison passages should be practiced with varying acoent in groups of 8, 4, 0, etc., notes, watching oarefnlly by sound—not by sight— the simultaneous striking by both hands.

In playing pieces with bass notes and chorda accompanying a melody in the right hand, do not consider it graceful or sentimental to anticipate the notes of the melody by the accompaniment It is bad taste.

In playing broken ohords beyond one ootave, two serious faults are frequently enoountered—viz, disconnecting the sounds at the crossing of the thumb under the fingers or of the fingers over the thumb. In correcting this, have the thumb always ready for its work by bending it as far as possible under tbe palm of the hand with the wrist turned outward, but guarding against the akimbo position of the elbows. In descending, or left hand ascending, hold the thumb on its key until the crossing finger touohes its key. A good preparatory exercise is to practioe with only four notes—the two preoeding and the one following the crossing. Continue this practice until the four notes sound as even and well oonnected. as when played without crossing.

The second fault in arpeggio playing is striking the thumb note too loudly in oousequenoe of the superior strength of the thumb compared with the other fingers. For a betterment the second part of the above exercise will overcome this evil. Oscar Raiff, the renowned teohnique master ?f Berlin, drills his pupils to use the thumb in crossing without sounding the note going up, and even with alternating thumb and second, then third and fourth fingers.

Another fault is that pupils forget to continue an accidental through a measure. It is distressing to hear even somewhat advanced players making this mistake, whioh is a Bure sign of a lack of knowledge of elementary harmony. A beginner should, if this forgetting of accidentals becomes habitual, make it a rule to stop right short in meeting an accidental, search for the same note affected by it in tbe same measure and impress the rule upon the memory.'

For Stoat Figures.

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JACKET WITH LOOSE FRONTS.

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Recipe For Rice Padding.

Here is a recipe from Good Housekeeping: One quart of milk to make it nice,

Only nine toaspoonfula of rice, Nine teospoonfnis of Kugar, too, Also a pinch of salt mixed through Two teaspoon fills of any flavor Of which you want the dish to savor. I, by my own idea possessed. Consider lemon is the bent. s= "j Bake for two honrs—not fnst nor sknr.

Bat in a moderate oven—so When it is done, it ought to seem Thick as the richest- kind of cream.

Recipe For Flam Preserve*. Make and clarity a sirup of clear brown sugar and pour it, boiling hot, over the plums. Let them stand for two days, then pour off the sirup, heat it to the boiling point, skim and pour it over again. Let the fruit and sirup stand for a day or two, then put the whole in a preserving kettle over tbe fire and simmer gently till the sirup is thlok and rich. A pound of sugar is to be used for each pound of the fruit

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