Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-13

| ming herself since my huSbandS salary
has been cut from 81 400 to 81, 300 a year We
have had to plan every way to dress the
girls in the style that they have been ac-
| customed to; we have lived close, so far
as household expenses are concerned, that
! there is possible chance to cut down
| there. / gave up my summer outing to
save the money for the girls winter outfits,
but even then I'm afraid I can't get all
| they want. How much did you say this
! piece of silk is?' picking up as she spoke to
| the clerk the end of a handsome white
| taffetd silk.
! Zone dollar and twenty-nine cents
| madam. 1t is a lovely quality reduced
| FROM"
| Mercy! Don't say reduced to me again.
| / don't hear anything but reduced from
| morning to night. 1t wouldn't make me so
mad, only nothing is really reduced but
salaries and the wherewith to buy
| What are you getting for Rose" she
| asked me as we moved down the aisle
| stopping at the various counters to look at
the array of pretty things
| Nothing just now" / replied. She is not
| in need of new frocks, her last seasons
| wear them as long as they are presentable.
| i shall have one or two OF the oldest frocks
| freshened up a little first"
| Mrs. Brown looked at me in amaZement
| You don't mean to tell me that Rose will
submit to wearing her old frocks second
| season! Well, 1 am surprised
| What IA school Girl Requires.
1 assured her that 1 had not consulted
Rose. That l considered girl just turned
fourteen too young to dictate the extent
or the style of her wardrobe. A girl of that
age is but a child, though she has great
| ideas of being a young lady. 1t is always
i best to consult a child's taste in colors and
we'll perhaps. to let her select from among
| the materials that you have decided upon.
| But i would consider il the height of folly
| to let Rose select her own wardrobe. Mrs.
! Brown continued to exclaim over my
/ methods.
! why, that is what is making me so much
| trouble" she declared. Mildred has set
| her heart on having a white taffeta silk
| for parties. j could make her very pretty
party dress out of an old India silk of
katie's, but Mildred declares she won't
| have old made-over dress. You don't
let Rose go to parties, do your
Keep Her "a Ciriid as Long as Possible.
Now, If there is one thing more than an
other that 1 am strict about, it is that
Rose shall refrain from everything that
savors of society. / want to keep her a
child as long as possible, and she can't be
| child In thought or action very long If
| she Is permitted to spend half her time at
parties and the theater and opera. She has
| her music, dancing lessons at home, her
| French and German and her school studies
That Is as much as she can manage at one
| time. When she has an hour to spare from
these / prefer to have her taking a run
| with the dogs or stroll in the park, a
street car ride or a brisk walk-something
! to live her up and give her new thoughts
Mrs. Brown, having been a slave to the
whims of her daughters all their life
studied the memoranda that she had made
and, striking off the new bonnet, which
she reeded badly, selected two pairs OF the
fiimsy silken things at $3.50 a pair for
her young daughter, who will throw them in
he haeg nd dam md
! as the first hole appears. She has never
been taught to darn a stocking.
| How to Practice ECONOMY.
! 1 wonder what there is degrading about
practicing economy that makes so many
women shun it? They say that women, as
a class. are bargain hunters, and yet one
woman can willfully waste more in a year
than half a dozen men. There are so many
| ways in which a woman can save, too, II
she has the right ideas of economy. and is
not too proud to put them into effect. 1
sometimes think that the knack of PLAN
ming and making over clothes Is born In one
Just as all other artistic ideas are-for the
| renovating sense Is an art as much as
knowing how to harmonic colors on a bit
! Of canvas.
| After the house cleaning is out of the way
| a woman whose finances need cosseting to
make them come out even should get to-
gether all CASTOR garments and the passe
gowns. coats and wraps, and study them
carefully with respect to the needs of the
family. IL 1t is possible to set apart a room
removed from the family for this work, l
! think II is best to do so. Into this room 1
would gather my work basket, with a full
| supply of thread, both silk and cotton,
needles, pins beeswax, buttonhole scissors,
| shears for cutting-and be sure that both
are sharp-buttons of every kind that are
! commonly used in a house where there are
children, cutting table. sewing machine
own sewing should have one for they are
| Northumberland all the other little acces-
| sories or the sewing room, that cost but
little, last lifetime and are invaluable for
| saving time. Economy in sewing demands
the proper tools and a convenient place to
do the work in
The Fall Sewing systematically Done.
In this room, for certain hours each day,
i would settle myself until the fall sew
ing was completed. 1t is not advisable to
wearing, and not as much will be accom-
! pushed as though you spent half day at
the combining work and then rested your
self at some other kind of labor.
| After you have got all the old clothes be-
| fore you. look them over carefully and
study their capabilities. If there are little
| boys, look over the fathers cast-off trousers
and coats. If the father gets good all-wool
clothes. there are grand possibilities in
them after they have got too shabby to
wear in office. Rip them up carefully and
brush them clean: Sponge them carefully
and press them with a heavy iron while they
are yet damp. Then get your patterns and
lay them on carefully. You may be able to
get only plain little kilt for the smallest one
out of a pair of trousers, but one of the
cast-off silk and wool shirts will make a
handsome blouse waist, and out Of the old
coat a neat little jacket can be evolved
which, with its nice new buttons and bind
ings, will make q much handsomer suit
for the lad than you could possibly afford
to buy. Out of the darned- death hose of
yourself and the girls you can cut stockings
enough to last the smaller children all the
winter. That is piece of economy that
women naturally hate. yet, when neatly
done. II IL a job to be proud of. / know
rich women who pay a goodly sum for their
hose who always have them cut over at
least once, yet every day in the week you
can fish out of the rag bag Of working wo-
men long stockings that cost fifty cents a
pair and up, which have not hole In them
except In the feet. and could be cut over
and worn as long again. .,r
| q. For the Younger Girls.
From the cast-off gowns of the mother
and older girls. 1t win be perfectly easy to
make q school wardrobe for the girl Of
fourteen and under. and 1t need not hava a
bit of the appearance Of being made over, I"
either. Two old gowns can be made into b