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Show HINTS ABOUT LITTLE GIRLS' FROCKS. A serviceable material in white that is a good substitute for linen, when linen seems too expensive, is a sort of heavy muslin which goes by a variety of names, one of them, "butcher's cotton." showing its resemblance to butcher's linen, best of all. It is wide and costs about 12 cents a yard, wears about as well as linen, and looks very much like it. ' For little girls lots of mothers are making up the gay, or dark, plaid ginghams ging-hams into guimpe dresses, the material of the dress being too well colored to show soil easily, and the little white guimpe relieving the dress from seeming seem-ing too heavy a coloring for summer. For summer coats some of the cleverest clever-est little ideas have been evolved loose coats, of course, of white flannel or serge, or of heavy linen, even, although al-though the cloth is usually preferred. An attractive coat a most interesting little girl wore the other day was of white serge, rather a light weight, the coat cut to hang loose from the shoulders, should-ers, gaining fullness in the back from a wide inverted box plait just between the shoulders. That coat would serve for almost every purpose a child needed an extra wrap for, could be cleaned and cleaned. Soft tan cloths are almost as well liked as white, and clean about as well, and red and blue are worn more than any they're so durable. Most of the coats for little girls are trimmed with lined or pique collars and cuffs, which are adjustable, of course. And these sets are made in a hundred weys. from the simplest edged with the plainest little scallop to the most exquisite ex-quisite of broderie Anglaise or blind work on the sheerest of linen. The Globe. |