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Show Oriental Bags for Dressing Room stitching. These bags look very pretty , and wear a long time. There nre some wonderful bits of old brocade and striped silk which can bo bought now at bargain prices and made into charming little bags for holding ribbons, rib-bons, hnudkerchlefs, gloves, &c. Thesci are invaluable to the girl who must livo in small quarters and who cannot tak all tho time necessary to keep her belongings be-longings laid out In Deat rows and piles In her dresser and chiffonier drawers. The prettiest of these bags are trimmed witb narrow old gilt or silver galloon. NEW JABOTS AND VESTS. SMALL vest of linen or pique can be bought now, which for the jackets cut open to the wAist line ore almost indispensable. Tho plainer tailor made waists, with wide ruche down the centre, are pretty with tho coats cut in a deep V or U shape, but the lingerie bodices which have not tho frill are too flat to be pretty with a wido open jacket. WIIKN" at boarding sctiool girls are apt to acquire the bag habit, more from hasty attempt at neatness than from any real fondness for these attractive receptacles, but the habit remains re-mains with them usuallv, and even when grown to womanhood the sex finds new uses for bags and new ideas iu the making mak-ing of them. In the outfit one young girl is getting 'ready to take on her first term at hoarding hoard-ing school this fall is a dressing room set vhicn will stand many trips to the laundry laun-dry nnd will look ns fresh at the end of the Kemester as when it was laid carefully care-fully and tenderly in her school trunk. This is n FOt of Oriental bngs, one large bag for laundry there are two of them just alike so that one can be washed while the other Is in use a smaller one for soiled handkerchiefs nnd one of a different shape to hold the neckwear that is to be freshened for another wearing. The largest bag is made of four pieces of Chinese cotton, the design being a white ground with the figure of h Chinese woman in the centre. She wears richly colored ihe Iittle white vest slips on under the jacket and has a piece of the material ncroiis the back, which, standing up Just a trifle above the coat collar, protects the collar band of the waist from soiling. This vest is double breasted, fastening with ivarl or crochet buttons. Small gilt buttons are often seen, but gilt buttons must be used with care ond diseretiou, ns they have tho power to make or mar the effect of nn entire costume. ' Jabot.s of all designs und materials are more worn than ever. There are the double jabot nnd the single jabot, jabots of equal width their entire length, and those which are very wide ut tho thronl, narrowing nar-rowing into nothing toward the belt. garments and looks like a Japanese print. The four lengths of cotton form tho two sides of the bag two for Ihe front and two for Ihe back. They are fastened together with heavy white cotton in a fancy stitch, herringhone or feather stitch, and a threo inch frill Is left at the top, w here a piece of tape is Inserted crosswise to hold a narrow strip of wood which has holes in the end through which to run a pair of white cotton wiudow loops to hang the bag up by. An opening Is left in the front section of the bag, hetweeu the two pieces of cotton cloth and just below the cross-piece cross-piece of wood, so that there is a place Some jabots arc placed ut one side of the waist, others down the centre Some are of finest lawns bordered wilh l.uc. others entirely composed of lace. Net and sheer laco are often combined, and again tho jabot is made of embroidery edging. If the lace cannot be really goijd iu quality it should not be used at all. a plain hemstitched law 11 gathered or plaited pie. e being preferable. The frill is beat when fullest jus. t the top, its length being decided by tU cut of the jacket wilh which the bodice Is worn. With n colored limn coat fnll or jaliot bordered with tho sjme shade is always ntiractne. Vests of col- to slip in soiled clothing. When the bag is hung against the dressing room door r the wall it looks much more attractive than some of the flowered ones that are more common than tho novel Japanese print effects. For the soiled handkerchief bag twr strips of cotton, two towels they are, are sewed lengthwise together with n fancy stitch and Ilia ends urn hemmed down over an embroidery boop which has first been wrnpped with embroidery beading. 'Chi; top of the bag gathers over the hoops, 'and where the round haudle emerges fromj the fulness a bit of the embroidery bead- ing is used to tin a pretty knot nnd toj keen the printed cottoji from slipping.; Wed linen, light or dark l.lue, piuk, green land tan, arc worn frequently with tho iall white suits, w lulu for a cloth cout I the w aistcoat may he of a contrasting 'tone. For a white serge costume the Ismail waistcoats of pastel blue moire are ; elm rniiog, and give just the necessary additional warmth. j Hut at the top of the vest must fall the soft jabot. This is the principal 'touch at t lie moment which gives such-Ij. such-Ij. smart air to every Fnuich gown. V I'rho sides of the bag arc not sewed up ill tho way. It is mote convenient to leave them open for at least three inches. The neckwear bag is the simplest of all. It is. in fact, a miniature laundry bag, one strip of tho cotton towelling sutticing for the length and width. The frill ut ihe top is narrower In proportion to the length of the bag, and a slim bit of wood per j haps four Inches in length is slipped into the casing made by two rows of fancy |