Show TO IMPROVE CHILDS FROCK dainty touches touche of hand embroidery will give distinction to little ones bought dress it you have not time to make the little ones short dresses at home and tn roust st buy them at the shops do not i despair your childs dresses can be made quite dainty by a very few ew added i stitches when you get them home for that matter the daintiest daintie st and finest of 0 embroidered and frocks can Is ie purchased at shops it if your purse Is well filled but it if you must economize more than two or three of 0 these ex r pensive little fro frocks aka are out ot of the question therefore when you buy i the simpler ready made garments see z t that they have upon them places where t j a hit bit ot of hand embroidery can be placed when you get them home the em brol dery may be the tiniest of 0 sprays lut 0 U t the very fact act that it Is hand em j troi dery will give an entirely differ ent atmosphere to a bought frock there is a pretty custom now ot of em Irol dery frocks for children in colored silks the dresses are of course invariably in agite when they are small enough to be babas first short gar ments the embroidery may be about the yoke yoka or simply at the front and the i back in the tonn form ot of a spray some t times the embroidery Is run the entire length ot of the little frock in panel form when colored silks or mercerized zed cottons ore are used they must be in very pale shades these colored silks work fat D beautifully inthe in ithe lazy daisy stitch ind french knots whereas these same It itches especially the lazy daisy are js lalit pt to look insipid and characterless in main white it if white embroidery 1 Is de sired fired the stitch must be one which consumes a little more time such as tor for instance the satin or solid stitches briar stitching in white between tucks Is another pretty way of giving the hand touch to bought frocks inexpensive shirt waists can be ba glorified into very desirable and becoming blouses by these same touches of 0 handwork it if the blouses already have a touch of 0 machine embroidery this only offers the best kind of 0 padding for the solid stitch tor for in a very short time the machine embroidery will vill be entirely concealed by fever ewer stitches than you would think for the blouse embroidery it Is well to use a heavy silk ellk or mercerized zed cotton the heavier the materials the more quickly to la the work accomplished |