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Show I Ratine Popular In Solid Colors WINSOME FOR LITTLE MIS! I With Larao Figures. I ICotton Crepes Available In Many I Weave and WelghU In Wonder. I ful Range of Shades. I If you would cliooso your summer I Ifrocks early this is tho way tho wind I .of fashion blows. H Ratlno Is tho fabric Is tho word that fata forth In regnrd to tho frocks of I Spring, that Is, of course, In tho way of jcotton fabrics. Ratlno was Immensely I popular last year, but It scarco Idreamed how many frocks It should I take this reason. Tho notv patterns m jsre fascinating. Thcro nro col Id colors, I fTflth largo block figures Interspersed I let Intervals, all-over check and corded I Ipatterns, ratines with a border In I fcLcckerhonrd effect, and, new this sea-M sea-M json.ratlncs with n drop-stitch or open-I open-I (work check nnd stripe. H And next to ratine, says fashion, there are tho cottoa crepes. Nor Is tho H cotton crepo which goes by tho namo at present anything llko It used to be. H frhere are as many weights and weaves I as thcro nro of silk crepes, which I como In n wonderful rnngo of solid colors. Ono of tho smartest of theso I heavier crepes Is of English weave, I faith nn open-work Inco Btrlpo about I jtbrcc-qunrtcrs of an Inch wldo at four-I four-I Inch Intervals. Another rather heavy (new crepo has a wcavo almost llko I "corduroy. H A silk and cotton pebbly crepe, with I Ian olmost Invisible stripe wenvo would jmakc very smart tailored cotton frocks. (Then thcro Is a cotton canton crepo iwhlch Is very popular. It Is shown In la big range of solid colors. A rather I jconrscly woven pebbly crepe, almost as Iheavy as ratlno Is 40 Inches wide. I As for tho sheer Imported crepes In I dellcato pastel colorings well, vollo, I lit Is said, has a wonderfully big season A SMART THREE-PIECE SUIT TM t . . This charming little drew for child of ten Is a fashion direct frc Paris. It Is of rose crepo maroca plaited and girdled with tiny roses. after several years of comparative u popularity but It has a dangcroi rival In those sheer crepes with shada check and cross-bar and stripe deslgi but ono may buy Imported voiles ar cotton crepes strewn all over with ci broldcred designs. Tho popularity of tho printed fabr Is nbsoluto for spring, a fnot ban out by rovlows of lines of all dcscrl tlons. Blouses, dresses and thrco-plei costumes all take advantago of tl many possibilities offered by U printed surfaces and employ them 1 tho best advantage. Tho plain fabrics are not ncglecte however, for In many Instances the aro brought Into play through comb nations with the printed number Thrco-pleco suits for summer wet show blouses of a plain material, wlill tho Jacket and skirt cliooso a prlntc crepo. In eomo Instances tho order I reversed, but In any event tho utmoi |