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Show THE WINTER SUIT. It seems as though the ever changing chang-ing fashions had paused for a brief i spell at last. The rumor that short: jackets are to be very popular need iot be disturbing to those who have! long coats, for the long coat is too comfortable and useful to be cast nrirle so easily and will maintain its place alongside of the jaunrier short ackets. The Y-neck of past seasons Rhowi its influence in the front opening open-ing of the new high collars. In suits and street costumes the waistline is more definitely pronounced than it has been for a long time, but the very wide girdle, formmp the bodice, makes a dressier evening gown Very oark shades of brov n. green blue and gray are the most favored for the winter suits The lipht touch is given to the costume by the blouse of lace or fine lawn, with slight trimming in bright-hued velvet or gold lace New lints to wear with ihese suits are fawn color THE PERFECT WINTER NIGHTGOWN NIGHT-GOWN Certainly it was either a mother or a thoughful and observant nurse who UVented the nightgown with teet : i roperly speaking, i suppose, it is not 1 8 gown hut highl drawer?;, but I' is admirably spoken i by innumerable little people as "my Teddy Bear J nightie!" It is an adorable little gar tnent for. no matter how much the I siless small person may kick about, 'here an be no bare spots to become -hilled, and the youngBiers love them USt because the are different, per haps. Almost the same in the iipp" part a;- rompers, they are easy to make. The unusual addition of the ' to. km T-shaped foot however, makes the lower part a little unusual In biiape THE KITCHEN WORKSHOP The new housekeeping mean- in many homes .in entire rearrangement ! of the kitchen This is the workshop o! tio family ; and a workshop, everyone ev-eryone recognizes ought to te convenient, con-venient, equipped fo: the work to be done in it One does not expect the modern kitchen to be a sitting-room, a laun dry. and a bukeshop. It is expected first and foremost to be a workshop :'',r the preparation and service ol food The new housekeeping implies new methods for doing work anil an abandonment of old-time processes, when they are shown to be wasteful of time or energy. Efficiency is the watchword in the new kitchen as well a in tin- new manufacturing plan: ; Take a concrete illustration from aj '-ecnt book of a new light on an , cid process: Usually after dinner, 1 vash forty-eight pieces of china, i LWenty-two pieces of silvei, and ten I atenslls and pots, or eighty pieces : in all. and for years I ner realized that I actually made eighty wrong motions In the washing alone not ounting others in the scalding, wiping wip-ing and laying away. Like all other omen, I thought that there couldn't be much improvement in the same old task of cashing dishes." Tlie writer was greatly surprised to find in a friend's home nineteen rules for dishwashing posted over the kitchen sink. She said. 'I never j knew you did nineteen things when sou washed dishes I just wash! ! them." But since that time, when other people have washed them, she has wished those nineteen rules wen .there for referonc Isabel BeVier, in ( Woman's World for .January. COLD FEET. I Warnings, come from all sides to i keep the f t warm find dr, and Qt how often the) are disregarded In ' the old weatiier you can put a hcav j coat over your evening dress to go out. but rubbers do not fit over the light slippers, it is too much trouble 'o wear shoes and carry the slipperi and so you fare forth in thin soles Jong the slushy pavements and wet streets. If you realized how much ol your foot trouble is due to this carelessness you would reform im mediately. Hut now that yon have ignored the warnings, and i hilblains have resulted, we must find a cure. U the first indication of this irritation irrita-tion when the toes appear inflamed aid the feet itch nib them with warm spirits of rosemary to which a small amount oC turpentine has been added it' the trouble has advanced and the Iresii lotion cannot conveniently conveni-ently he applied often enough, wet a bit of absorbent cotton xith CamphOl or podeldoc and bind ou the affected parts Camphorated vaseline is also soothing. See that your circulation Is ;jood Do not expose the feet to extremes ol heal or cold. oo |