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Show Pretty Night Dresses Easily Made L THK newest modol for a night dreds is delightfully eaiy to make and is delightfully pretty when made. Thcr are no sleeves jo be put in, no yoke to be fitted. The only work is the running up of two side scams, hennaing the cud aufl -whipping on luce and bending at the top. Tnis uight dress is fashioned from two widths of line nainsook, joined their full width nt the feet but nanowed toward the top, and then mandarin .sleeves being cut all in one piece with the rest of toe gown. Each piece of the material allows for half a sleeve, which when the two pieces are joined make the whole short mandarin sleeve. For u slight, straight figure the paru for Trent and back can be exactly similar in dimensions. It is always safost to cut from a pattern, however, nnd It is now possible to procure a paper jmttaru uf this newest night dress for a figure of any size. . J This model can, of course, be elaborated ', by any .amount of hand tucking and embroidery em-broidery and ornamentations of hicc dp- ' sired. Intdoud of beading for the ribbon j about the top, worked buttonholes for the j ribbon to be run through are always I smarter and will insure a far longer life to the gown. A band of scalloping at the top makes an effective finish below the hico edging- j There is opportunity on this gown also for a design in hand embroidery below the beading at the top, and also at the' edge of the sleeves. A square rather than a rounded yoke is fashionable for all night govyiu.s-r Jhe moment. Low neck 'and shorl sleeve Xowus ars worn pratty nuiuirftlr'w)nitr and summer, and tho square neck gown .Uli ril'bun liuitdicd at cub -idt iu .1 pretty rosette or bow knot is tho favorite H model for cambric as well as sheerest H embroidered batiste. The mandarin IH sleeve is quite wide, reaches not quite to IH the elbow and is finished "with u border IH of luce and beading or embroidery to IH correspond with the neck of the gown. JH Thevery smartest night dresses always have a four to six inch rullle tucked and IH edged with luce or embroidery. Irish luce IH is moic in vogue for underwear than the jH more delicate Valouciennes, which is IH charming when now, but loses much of IH its beauty ouch time it is laumlured. Lland IH embroidery is preferred by many lo uuu jH the costliest lace trimming, and tho girl IH who makes for herself a half dozen night IH robus of Ibis new inudcl simply liiushid H at the nccK aud sleeui aUIi a narrow J edgo ol scalluiiiug cau rubt content iu the IH knowledge' lli.it hu could jioabes no H prettier gowns at any puce. Ribbon, ot jl course, tlieie must be un all iiudeiweni lH For this simple model the bulonhoKs H might be uuuie large enough lo allow ot H an inch wide ribbon both in the sleeves fWm and yoke, and the delicate piuk or blue IH satin will give bettor c-tfcit than an H amount of lace that is not of the vei. IH rarest. Satin ribbon is now used aaiu IH instead of the wash ribbon that was first WM iu favor for no long a time, and it mu.si H be double fated satin, too, to bo quae 1 correct. H |