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Show Autumn Styles in Handkerchiefs end to form a handkerchief corner. A girl who has fallen heir to four medallions or motifs of rare old lace should endeavor to match them us nearly us possible in a half yard of modem lace, and have some expert needlewoman fashion the various pieces into a border for a handkerchief to be carried upon state crcasions. CO.smi;i:Al'.LY more color I Inn white is used in the new handkerchiefs handker-chiefs designed for rooming, shopping shop-ping and travelling use. Most of those which are quoted as exceptionally smart and the lust cry from I'aris ure so con-spiruoiiH con-spiruoiiH of design that few young gills of retinement would care to rnrry one of them, but amoug the few patterns which are possible is one show ing a small snare centre of solid navy, dark green or brown, a w ide border composed of a tiny checking of white with u color and a narrow plain hued edge. The same pattern is reproduced repro-duced with a striped instead of a checked border, nud the whitest of ull these handkerchiefs hand-kerchiefs bus a solid tint centre and 11 broad white border edged with double j hair stripes. I Senlloi.d. cdo clove handkerchiefs ar.: of tiue linen iu the various delicate tint, I embroidered and initialled in sell color.) I-'or nftcruoous the daintiest of these ac ( eessories ure. of Irish liuen, bavlug a fumy i de.-igu or border of all w hite or done iu a I faint shade of blue, which becomes white;' after several laundering. While scallops ,' arc much daintier us u uuishing for hand- " kerchiefs ihuu a straight edge they an: 1 not nearly so practical as a hemstitched border, since any scallop is certain to tear out ufler u short time, and tbeu the accessory, acces-sory, no matter how expensive, is fit only for the rug bug. j The hemstitched handkerchiefs of super-liue super-liue linen, embroidered all round with a tiny tiorul desigu or marked w iUi a hand : embroidered Initial or monogram, arc quite- dainty enough for almost any occasion, occa-sion, and they are the best of all for a girl to take with her to college or to any place from which sho must .eud her clothes to u public laundress, 1'urty h.iudkerchicfs range from comparatively com-paratively inexpensive squares of sheer liui-u edged with real French Valenciennes Valen-ciennes to the cobwebby trifles of duchessc, rose point, Hrussels, 1'ruges und Vtuise, which are applied to lirv-u centres of infinitesimal size. This centre may take the shape of nn oval, a circle or a -square, and often is cut out in Maltese' cros-j form to suit a lace border done in four m ed al 1 iu us deeply rounde-d at the' inner eud and sharply iointed at the outer |