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Show THE CHIUDREN'S CLOTHES. It Ib not the expensive clothes that look the best on children. The first thing to consider in children's clothes is their design. Even more than In clothes for grown-ups, line counts for everything. The next thing is color, for a pretty child's prettiness can be easily offset by a frock of an unbecoming unbe-coming color. And the next thing is material; not judged according to the price paid for it, but according to texture tex-ture and finish. All white is usually becoming to children, but there are some children to whom it is positively unbecoming. It is usually lovely on the fair-haired, blue-eyed child with pink cheeks; but sometimes a darker child, with vivid coloring and bright, dark eyes cannot wear it at all well. Voile and net are two fashionable fabrics that, in white, will be much used this summer for children's clothes. Cotton crepe, too, is used. Jersey cloth is used for coats, and so arc various checked wool fabrics. Galatea, Ga-latea, pique and other heavy cotton cloths are a good choice for the frock for daytime. Crepe de chine is used for afternoon frocks, and so are lawn and batiste. Whipcord and serge are used for the heavier frocks and coats lor spring, aiiu jjuuh auu culluu poplin are used for both girls and very small boys, just as galatea and pique are. Smocking has really become very popular in the last few years, and surely there is no prettier trimming for the child's frock than this stitch-ery. stitch-ery. It is no longer difficult to accomplish, ac-complish, for there are transfer patterns pat-terns that mark the fabric to be smocked with dots through which the needle Is drawn, and so long and tedious tedi-ous hours of shirring are avoided. Lovely and very simple frocks can be made of lawn with a little smocking smock-ing at the shoulders or waist. If the smocking is done in mercerized cotton cot-ton of blue in any shade, or of pink or rose, variety is gained. There are many charming frocks that can be made in this way, as simple or as elaborate as one chooses. FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. In Ironing a garment on which hooks are Bewn, care should be taken not to close tho hooks. You can prevent pre-vent this by placing flannel or anything any-thing soft beneath the hooks. If there Is no maid to serve tho dinner, put a tray cloth on the wheeled tray and stand It beside you at the table. Dessert and side dishes can be easily served from this tray. Onions should be taken out of the ground as soon as they are well formed form-ed Let them He on the ground until they are well cured in the air, then spread them thinly In a dry place. no |