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-—^——i_ ■ A DOTTED SWISS BLOUSE. Here is a blouse that is simple and in expensive, yet dainty, and has a great deal of style. It is made of dotted Swiss box-plaited from the shoulder down the back and down the outside of the sleeves. It is trimmed with very sheer Swiss em broidery inserting. The blouse is pollar less, with the inserting forming a little I square arouud the neck. Shoulder straps, cuffs and straps across the front are made of embroidery, from under which the material is cut away. The hat is made of nifties of Valen ciennes lace and faced with inserting to match it. It is trimmed on the outside with thin pale pink satin rosettes going straight across th3 hat TWO PRETTY LINEN FROCKS. I These frocks noticed on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City, were conspicious for their extreme daintiness and for their very good style. The one trimmed with lace squares was of heavy white butch er’s linen, the squares beiug of a heavy ooarse-mesh heavy antique lace. The vine embroidered around them and down the front seams of the skirt was done in a rather coarse working cotton; The •boulders were tuoked to give fullness, also the tops of the sleeves. The hat worn with this was a fine black straw, the crown outlined with gardenias and two white plumes hauging over the brim on the left side. The other frock was al so of white linen, but of a finer mesh. In this there was a yoke of white dotted Swiss, over which was sewed bands of the linen, shaped, and piped on the edges with pale blue lineu. The oufts wore made in the same way. The hat was of natural-colored straw, bound with paU blue velvet and a quilling of the same crown. i * A PRETTY EVENING FROCK FOR A GIRL OF SI XTEEN. . This is a simpl e,rdainty’little frock for a young girl to wear to an inform al dance, it should be made of some clinging fabric in white or a very pale color. It is tucked in groups of pinch tucks and trimmed with squares of a heavy white lace—an imitation Irish point is pretty. Thesej^are joined together with straps of a creamy Valenciennes inserting. It takes a dozen sauares of lace and a piece of the inserting. It is pretty to briar-stitch firmly in between each row of the inserting. This should be done in No. 50 O. N. T. crochet cotton. This frock would be lovely for a fair-skinned fcrunette, made of the ordinary batiste, which can be bought at most of the Perth Amboy stores in the most beautiful pale blush pink. TWO VERY EFFECTIVE BLOUSES. This first blouse is very dainty and rather out of the ordinary, being trimmed with Dale blue. It was no ticed.in an exclusive French shop, and was ’rather an exorbitant price, but any one a little clever with her needle can easily make one very inexpensive ly. The blouse is of white handkerchief linen, with a yoke made of very small hand-run tucks. The tops of the sleeves are done in the same way. This is not difficult if a thread is drawn to mark each tuck. The straps are made of pale blue handkerchief linen, which are put on oy hand, the edges being whipped over and over with helios floss. The white linen is then cut from beneath it, and a flower embroidered in the same floss at the top of each strap. When laundering,first soak the blouse in salt water to retain tlie bine in the trimming. The second blouse illnstrated here is very simple, just bring trimmed with a Valenciennes inserting; but this latter is put on in A rather novel and pretty way. The# yoke is first finely tucked and the lace then sewed on like i4 the illustration. 1 l FOR THE EARLY SEPTEMBER DAYS. This is a rather plain but exceedingly pretty, also quite dressy, irock for the first cool days in the early fall. And for the mountain, seashore or country very suitable for either morning or afternoon wear. It is made of white foulard polka dotted in bright red. No trimming need be bought for it, as bands of the same fabric make it sufficiently elaborate. The bauds coming over the shoulders are fagoted together with red twisted silk. The waist is a simple blpu^e and the skirt seven-gored w ith a strapvetilcbed down each seam. The hat to beVcurs with this should be of chip, the color of the dot in the frock, with a garland of poppies around the crown. A parasol of red should be carried with the costume, which when completed is very attractive, yet quite inexpensive, including everything SOME DAINTY LINGERIE. There are many who would not at tempt to make a frock or even a blouse, but who always make their own lingerie. For the real dainty and fine garments such exorbitant prices are usually asked that, unless one has plenty of money, they must content themselves with inexpenisve things or make them one’s self. A corset cover can easily be cut from one’s shirtwaist pattern. The one in the illustration is cut juts to the waist, wide beading put on for a waitsband, and a circular tail put on it, The inserting is braid ed on in diamond shapes. The coat ruffle is extremely pretty and launders very well. The shapes are all cut out first and bound all around with inserting. These are whipped together the edge by so doing makes points. A rather wide lace is then sewed on with a row of the inserting. The sleeves in the nightgown are very pretty, having the seam entirely open and not drawn in to any band at the elbow. The edges have a ruffle < laoe all around. The little sha, vote has three Swiss embroide motifs appliqued on it and a des in briar-stitching. It is edged ai te top with a little ruffle of la