Show spring wash dresses for children s A 7 j X 4 P earl in january the new things for spring in children s wear are present ed by their designers and the home sewing is soon under way fabrics and styles are at hand for the consid aeration of the home dressmaker and she may anticipate the spring and earn leisure in summer by getting much of the spring sewing out of the way in the middle of winter there are many pretty new models in frocks tor for little girls including school and play dresses and those for afternoon and little party frocks that it Is more of a pi pleasure asure than a task to make A ginch gingham tra dress for every day and a linen euit suit for dress up de signed for the girl of ten years are shown in the picture given here and they are well worth while copying ex acely as they are the gingham dress is a small plaid pattern with tan and soft darker col brings crossed with very narrow bars in black it Is cut with a novel yoke which drops at each side of the front and slopes down to the waist line at the sides the shape Is the same at the he back I 1 I 1 the skirt portion is plaited into the yoke at the back and sides and partly across the front but at the center the fullness Is taken up by stirrings shir rings neck Is cut round with a low V opening at the front and fin fished with a small sailor collar ot of plain tan linen the edges of the col lar and the cuffs that match it are fin dished with buttonhole stitching in heavy linen floss deep blue and black are the colors used for the stitching and they repeat the blue and black of the fabric A girdle of narrow black velvet ribbon is worn with the frock slipped through narrow straps of the gingham which are sewed to the dress below the waist line the girdle is fastened under a small bow at the back and is simply slipped out when the dress Is laundered the white linen frock has a plaited skirt with a panel at the front and shallow plaits at each side it Is set on to a plain waist of organdie cut with round neck finished with a nar row band it fastens down the front with small crochet buttons the short linen jacket is scalloped and ered by hand about the edges and the sailor collar and narrow turned back cuffs cuff s are made to match it the gir die dle Is of black velvet fastening at the back under a small flat bow colored linens as wel vel as white are used for this model but white la Is the most satisfactory in the I 1 ing run |