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Show Nothing Like a Spencer for Chillv Mornings riE woman who likes to wear a fresh white tub blouses about . BL tho house, but whose house is too cool for comfort unless arms and shoulders are better protected than by linen or madras, should have a knitted spencer to slip on under the blouse. It will keep her cosily warm, will not be bulky, If made of fine worsted; and will give her a much neater appearance than the sweater which so many women draw on when 1 the temperature Indoors Is low. However How-ever smart and charming a knitted sweater may be on the golf course or tennis court, It always has a bedraggled bedrag-gled look, worn about tho house mornings morn-ings in company with an apron. It suggests to the friend who happens to drop in, also, that either one's house Is Inadequately heated or one is too ' pressed by poverty to burn the proper amount of coal in the furnace. The maid who works about In a print dress I will look much neater and more at- I tractive, also, if sho keeps warm with a spencer under her bodice than if she goes atyout the house wrapped In a knitted sweater and tho sweaters that housemaids affect are nearly always al-ways a dingy gray in color and mo.it depressing to look at. Spencers, which used to be an Indispensable article of feminine wardrobes, are very handy little garments indeed particularly If one lives In the suburbs where houses are apt to be colder than in town and during tho trying between-season time when it is too warm for furnace heat yet not warm enough for summery sum-mery airs to come In at tho windows, thero is nothing like the trim and tidy spencer, worn beneath the housedress. These little garments come with or without long sleeves and if desired, the fronts may be crossed and tied with ribbon at the back, giving a smooth line over the bust and beneath the shirtwaist |