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Show 'CHARMING COLLARS OF IRISH LACE WHEN hot weather returns and the day are spent In tennis, rowing, golf and the thousand aud one other modes of glorious summer fun and exer-j ci.se, then a low turned down collar iiinyj be worn once again. In midwinter, in a schoolroom, however, n Buster Brown collar col-lar is anything but smort; it is too inappropriate inap-propriate and also too generally unbecoming unbecom-ing to be In any way attractive. It Is comfortable, of course, but so are low-shoes low-shoes and slippers and a treat many other things which worn in their proper time ond place ore all right, but which can also go under the heading of "bad stylo" if. their pure comfort is taken advantage of and they arc worn at unsuitable times, A Dutch yoke is charming for a party frock, nnd on' a dainty summer bodice a Busto'r Brown collar of lawn and lace i extremely extreme-ly pretty, but certainly a long expanse of neck appearing above a coat collar Is not nnd never ran 1? tcomB;r, no matter how beautiful r ' how piquant a type is the wearer. f-If f-If a stiff linti co"'"' is uncomfortable for school wear then a bund of Irish la;e or of embroidered l'"en, finished with a mall jabot in ront is Buf to be becoming. becom-ing. lrih 1 "ttcr thnn any other kind of lace, as It washes so wcl. n,,, c( this lrce cun best he made from a strip of Insertion, cut the right length and fastened fast-ened with small linen covered buttons aud thread eyes. It should be basted to a foundati6n of sheerest batiste or lawn to preycut it from 'tearing or pulling when washed A small tab made of n three or four inch piece of the lace will finish . this collar in front and serve as a jabot. '. Irish lace by the yard can generally be lought cheaper thnn If a regular collar piece is purchased. The mado collars, too, arc, not apt to lit the neck so well ns a straight strips of luce of just Ihe right w idth for the. neck. On a remnant counter bits fjf lace 'often can be found most in- j expensively.' thirteen or anyway fourteen Inches bring sufficient for a collar. Washed carefully with a good lace soap, two pieces of lace will hist through an eutlrc- winter worn every day in the week. ' If curefully boned with the strips! of celluloid. , which fit Into little tape I cases, the celluloid being sllped out when the collar is washed, a lai-o collor of thisj kind is" lefs trouble own than a stiff linen j collar. No matter what the waist, a collari band of "bnby" Trish or heavy point is Ijound to look well ; nor w ill the two lace eollurs cost more in the end than tho nuinberlcs embroidered collars which it is necessary to have in the course of a ainter, so quickly do the collar pins tear the, starched lineu. |