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Show IL Embroidered Envelope Chemise for Spring and Summer Wear. . ! 1 I ' ' -'- ' ;- n -. OxO 7 2o-xV " ' &': . l; . jS " , I O r N V 7 , .--' iA"L"'f "' made up of ' f . fe j S C - J W Y l II y l IX v " .. . de fcliiuu or uiualiu material. The bands ," V- ' - -fJBBHE'', , J Y tU P X V arc t0 embroidered in outline and eyelet ?& ' f ' y - Vw T . VA l ( M WsT N ' ""' Pitches. In using the printed designs from ' &-1 C T ' ( A I yf j ' , ( ) Vv X- the paper the directions are as follows: If W V ' , -' WW WW r- 'V .y v. the material is sheer, the easiest way is to !a . -w r, f yAy ' . WW W 1 y 3 x k f y i x i ' - I ) V Skr Ifc 0VGr tbC design which wlU show through 4 7 ' 1 ' ' ryi VW . SS U ,,' Vy ' . - plainly, and draw over each line with a hard. A JS?' v- ' f ! i,- 'v '-?' : ' H vS' VV' IS , C ' A -,r sharp lead pencil. If your linen is heavy, buy ' , . ' A9-"" i (y( ' I v k i 11 ( jVOl . ,JjL i . a piece of impression paper the kind that will J- 'A' f vJ ' 1 '' ' N 'R V 11 h u r'- not off" lay ifc over your ,natcriaI' p,nce P tj" J I "" W A " -f II J l tb desigQ over k' and trace wIth a bard , jK ' ' f 1 ' ) I u W v!" "if v - TKgf PencU- ou will find the design neatly trans- 'hK1". CXikx- N v' II J , BUTTON-HOLE, STJtJ, OUT- - V''' 111 " V A EYELET I " ' ' . VS i V TX n- .4 rrcy . Bgr U V A tt X j '" JjSfr . " v r ( 1 - 1 8 Hi 1 ( N- , ; i -- - - VsA L 1 L : J I T TT I IIIISi The Home Harmonious Chintz Wardrobe Novel and Useful By Anita de Campi Washable Toys 1 1 ' A re the barest. : AT this season of tho year It Is a great temptation to lay In a supply of pretty drapery fabrics and to begin to make them up and have them ready foi the spring redecorating. redeco-rating. Many lovely domestic cretonnes can be had for 25 cents a yard and even less. The season offers a number of novel utes to which the new fabrics may be put. particularly In bedrooms. One of tho nicest things I have seen Is a chintz wardrobe ward-robe It Is so simplo that any ono who has a knack an easily fashion a home-fflado home-fflado copy of It Make two shallow wooden boxes, Just a trifle larger than an ordinary millinery box cover. One with the open face turned down forma tho top, and the other with the open faco turned up forms tho bottom bot-tom of tho wardrobe. These are covered on the outride with chintz and aro joined together by flva foot lengths of chintz. That is, chintz Is tacked on all the way around, hanging straight down. The bottom box Is heavy tnough to mako it hang In a perfect iuare. At the front only the chintz overlaps. over-laps. Hero It Is adjusted with snap clasps and Is trimmed with a binding and two tig tassels. To tho box on tho Inside of tho top a mall clothes polo (mode of an ordinary curtain rod) Is fastened, and tho clothes are hung to this lod by means of shoulder hangora. Tfte chintz wardrobo may bo left hanging hang-ing out In the room on a bracket hook from the side wall, or a hook from tho ceiling, or If there Is a good sized closet In the room It may be hung on tho clothes rod In the closet In any case It lo an Invaluable In-valuable adjunct of the toilet, as It protects pro-tects light dresses from dipping on tho floor and cocrs them from the dust r Party Bllppcrs to match tho gowns may to Kept In the bottom of the case. At the left of the Illustration Is a sketch one of these useful articles. At tho fteht Is a set of chintz covered millinery koxes in a stand made to hold them. On top of tho stand 1b another novelty. It Is a Dresden dolllo all drc30d up. Tho Wrt of tho doll Is made ovor a wlro lamp "hade. Tho cunning Dresden body molded mold-ed only to tho waist line comes In a variety vari-ety of shapes and sizes this year, at prices t ranglng from 75 cents to ?C or ?0 In tho one pictured hero a chintz band lias been SeWn around the base of the wlro frame, Wd Tussor silk Is used for the full upper rt of the skirt What Is It used for? "Well, w 1th an electric elec-tric light under It it Is used for a lamp had, or it may. b0 dipped over. a a cover or the telophono, or supplemented with R almplo undercover made of asbestos clth It may be pressed Into service as a tea cozy. It lo a fad of tho moment to havo tho flreescr doll to dress and undress. Sometimes Some-times her coBtumo is made of brocade, Mmethnes of silk trimmed with gold lace, j ' &na sometimes of chintz and taffota, but 1 fhe ls nver allowed to become passe, and ell n ln,JcnuIty that Is exerted by nimble ffl Angers to keep hor ficshly and fashlon-3J fashlon-3J ably clothed adds a touch of almost cblld-tM cblld-tM femlnlnlty to tho room. MM Casement curtains are a charming sub-M" sub-M" MlUte for window shades. It Is well to M havo them finished on both Bides, bo that A they may bo rovorsed on occasion, chang- . i L:: m ''- ',,,,' E !'' ii -i i li- J ' ' ' ,i ' ' " i' ' - -l ' ' ' -i ' ,' i ' ' r'' ' ij r 'i V ' "',---1 i ' L ' ', '- i i ' T , ! , ' ,', ..Til lng tho wholo appearanco of the room-Figured room-Figured chintz can be used on one side, and dotted or striped cotton taffeta on tho other. Often a valance, like the one In the plc-tui plc-tui c, is used across tho top of several windows win-dows when treating tho bevoral windows as one. The valance should always be on a separate rod, not to Interfere with the drawing back and forth of tho casement case-ment curtain. If the addition of the valance gives an unpleasant Impiesslon of shortness to tho windows, either do without tho valance, va-lance, or raise It well above tho window frames, letting the lower edge just cover the casement cur tain rods. When leaving off tho valanco anew noto this season is to cover the curtain rod with tho curtain material. This makes a connecting lino of color between the curtains. cur-tains. This fad ls notably popular In tho hanging of portieres. Nearly all of tho bet decorators advocate covorlng tho cui tain poles w 1th the fabric usod for tho hangings. Curtain pulls are also counted among beat selling pernuloltes of drapery departments. depart-ments. They ai o In pairs, made of heavy cords nnd taoselH, or are straight strlpB of embroidery or brocade. They aro stitched securely tt tho curtain at the top and they lmng loosely down to within easy reach of the hand. The curtains aro Joikcd back and forth by theso pulls. Thoso In tho illustration aro of cords and Ueeels. matching other trimmings In the room. Tho Idea Is attractive of repeating tho wholo color scheme of whatever chlnt Is employed, In a number of small different dif-ferent colored cushions thrown on the window bench or scttee.Usually tho Uttld gathered cushions are xnndo of silk. Onu small black velvet ono may bo among tho lot. Too much boldly figured cretonno In unplcjsant unless It 1 backed by large Huacos of neutral tone. In other woidd, an abundance of cretonno Is best In a room with plain sldo walls and simplo rugs. Theru ls a vaHt difference between domestic do-mestic and imported prints. The former, i to begin with range from 10 cents to a dollar a yard in price, and tho latter from $1 to $5 a yard. Without going too dooply Into tho matter, ono distinguishing mark Is easily recognized that is the difference In the length of tbo repe ted patterns. In the domestic stuffs tho pattern pat-tern must be repeated at least once In every eighteen Inches, becauso they aro all printed on eighteen inch rollers. It ls this that makes them monotonous. The Imported fabrics aro done by means of block printing, and tho repeats aro limited lim-ited only by tho number of blocks uaed. Tho Homing ls usually larger, and consequently con-sequently moro dlfllcult to turn into successful suc-cessful decoration. Small conventional Patterns are nearly always safo. A blmp decorator's rulo should be kept In mind in making a selection of chintz, nnd that ,1s that three elements of tho room must be considered the wallpaper, wall-paper, the upholstery and the drapery. Ono of these three must bo kept free of decorative design. Conservative taats auks that two of thn thiee be fieo of embellishment. em-bellishment. If all three are covered with figured BtufC the effect is bound to bo nothing short of atrocious. Answers to Inquiries. L P : I fhould suggcbt you use cream enamel woodwork in y our bedroom. Use chintz for hangings and oover on drest box- A dahlia de-slgn In the neutral ahadeB ranging from a faint pinkish, lavender lav-ender to the deep purple ehades would look well w 1th the oak furniture Have a. deep purple pottery bowl In th room to bring out tho color scheme. MRS. T. R. s : Since you havo dccldpd on cretonne curtains for your bedroom, let tho sunfaat inside curtains In your parlor and dining room and jour portieres, por-tieres, if you win use them, bo of what-oer what-oer shado predominates in tho chintz you choose. Have an hour glass chair in our living room, one or two Windsor chairs, and one comfortable fireside chair upholstered. I think Spanish leather and fumed oak rather severe Wicker Is a good material for inexpensive inexpen-sive furniture, and is light, pliable, and attractive It is charming when propel prop-el I fitted with pietty chintz cushions, which you can doubtless make yourself. MRS. A. J. K.: As your woodwork and furniture will be oak. I would suggest that you hae jour walls stained a lavender lav-ender gray tint, using the same thioughoul the hall, living room, and dining loom Have your draperies a deeper shade of heliotrope, a nun fast material ma-terial In the lhlng room, with velour portieres, por-tieres, unless jou wish to use chintz throughout. In which case be sura that tho heliotiope shades predominate In the How cis or figures. Or you might use tho chintz Sn the dining room onlj', as you prefer. Have rugs of deep plum color. For the bedrooms I would prefer tho white or cream enamel, and jou can use fine net curtains throughout, halng j-our draperies of different colored chintz, to suit jour taste, in the different bedrooms. bed-rooms. J T B.: I quite approve of jour Idea of do'ng oer the old pine woodwork on the second floor and having It done In white enamel. Instead of graining the woodwork on the first floor In Imitation mahoganj', I should advise you to paint It alike throughout If you do not care to havo it white, make It wme light neutral shade. ML.: In what finish Is the wainscoting wainscot-ing of the dining room now? If It 13 good, perhaps the best thing would bo to leave it alone- As to the bedrooms, finish In while enamel on the second floor, and It would be well to do the doors In mahogany If j'ou like, but leave the windows and window sills In white enamel like the rest of the room. Figured papers In the fabric papers, not too pronounced, arc good, and slrlpcs are also good. Chintz In good designs Is good for draperlee, and I should advlso thin voile window curtains. M G. T : No, I do not think the green taptBtrj' would clush with the surroundings surround-ings you describe. Let the papering on your walls correspond with the coloring piedominatlng in your colored rug. I suggest jou do awaj with tho glass shade? on the lamps and use silk shades Instead. Let tho draperies on the door between library and living room be of simple velour a shade dotper than tho side walls Small window boxes set up on legs are now being used; they aro called window ferneries. Thankw for jour many compliments. D. II.: Wilton velvet seamless In warm taupe would be the best covering for j-our floor. This velvet comes 6, 0, and 12 feet wide In any desired shado and cut to any longth. This makes on excellent aeamlcss covering. Much Japaneso lnquered furniture la now on the market. What Is your room to be bedroom or living liv-ing room? Tho sacking In yllowii or grayish green would not bo bad for your lde walls but I think that you would pra-fei pra-fei genuine Japanese grass cloth (I don't mean the wall paper imitation). CHILDISH ailments are often dlfll- H cult to account for. and ever. do.-. gin1 tors are puzzled at "times But in HI cases like this one medical mail jj with children of in own, alas 11 nks: " Where are the children's tojs'" Mi Then often the probkm is sohtd. and the IH case can eaally be diagnosed as one .f BlKj mild poisoning. jj! Most toF And their way Into the chll SIR drcn mouths, the gaudy pa.nt ls Fucked jll off, and trouble naturally follows Some llll tojs, wooden or tin trumpets, for eam- H pie, have the paint actually on the mouth H II piece o-within an Inch of It. India rubber Ml toj's ar favorites but thej should be un HI colored, ne the paint becomes brittle. lm breaks off, and a piece may be swallowed Jy and cause tc ere Momach troublo iH Washable tojs are always the best Trie IH faorite rag doll may hold danger If the il stufnne hat not been stcrlllztd, and it H HI mould be baked In a hot oven. It won't BWr hurt the doll but It will put anj germs out l of action This Is not mere faddiness IN It's mother being careful, Hju Those .'.ttractlvc little ten sets one often jj(l sees are touched up with paint Scrape it jj off or wash with strong ?da and watrr , i j before you give it to iho children. It ujm best to be on the safe sldo. - H 11 Hlnf Pointers for , the Housewife. 1 Currants hae to be washed carefully. M boln to get rid of the Insect? and to make I (J sure that poison used to kill currant jllj worms Is not on the fruit The quicken way to do this 13 to buy a 10-cent corn J popper and keep It for Jus-t this purpoi JP Put your currants In the popper and clef e djj the Hd. First pour a dipper of salt waUr sj jj oer the ourrants. Ordinary water wl.l U not roako the Insects let go tholr hold on M Lhe berries, but when tho salt water strikes them they curl up and drop or . jLj Th4c hold the popper under tho cold ijl water faucet and sfaake- It gently. The jj p currants will bo washed clean within two minutes. - , n.Ti J fc ' I P Wben cooking meat that ls inclined to be tough, add at least a tcaspoonful of lit vinegar to the water. This will make It n! tender and will not Impair the flavor In Vu tho least nil! V I Ono of the most methodical of houad- iflil wives tells how to fold tablecloths in a jfjl ' way which lengthens the llfo and insures mw tho linen being absolutely fiat upon "tho mil table. Tho Idea Is to fold in three length- ill J wlso, and so avoid the man j squares made ft jg. by folding across In tho -usual way. Tho j ju parts that wear drst aro always whero Jj2 croasca are. Tho strongest threads In ijjjt damask run horizontally, and aro there- ( W' fore tho ones that should stand tho strain. ( Tho thrco folds arc arranged as a screen, a and to put away the cloths aro rolled up i lightly and tied with lino ribbon or.sof,t , ' 5 twine. rvf It may bo useful to know that whwi jj . you have oversowed soup tbica be co'un- I HI teracled by drojplng an uncooked" "ptJ- w W tato Into K. A.iow the oup to continue Jjj boiling' until th potato I cooked jj |