The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24

dress, but the expense comes in the en-
broldering. There are women who make
a business of embroidering these little
dresses for nice occasions and they get well
paid for their work-though not excessive
ly so. Three dollars a yard is about as
high as they ask for embroidering a skirt
with a hand of roses and rosebuds, and
surrounding them with leaves, suitable for
a maid of honor to wear to a wedding.
The stitch used in bingham embroidery
is invariably the cross stitch and the whole
square of the Bingham is taken in at
stitch, so that the work goes rapidly on;
but it must be done by a practised hand,
or it will full and not lay fiat. If well
done 1t will have the appearance of a band
of brocaded silk on the bingham back
ground.
Cheaper bingham such as some at 10
cents a yard can be treated in precisely
the same way with excellent results. Take
the common brown and green bingham,
such as IS used in a Bingham apron. Make
up this bingham into little gown with
round waist and gathered skirt. Row take
the skirt upon your lap, run rapid chain
of cross stitch embroidery around the hem
and you will find that ycd have suddenly
made the dress a pretty and fancy one.
Use for brown and green Bingham q
bright scarlet linen warranted to wash, or
if there is no other scarlet in the dress
perhaps. green or brown linen would be in
better taste. If you use the scarlet you
must embro.der a scarlet band for the belt
and for the neck. This Of course washes
like IRON as they say in the country and
is neither too cumbersome nor too nice
for the little maid to wear every day in
the week.
1t is an unquestioned fact that children's
pInthiOer r0adW fc ell iG
impossible to get delicate hand work with
out paying for it. Dressmakers say that it
is harder to twist and turn a little garment
than to manage the big one, and they
much prefer TO work upon dresses for
grown up people. Nevertheless you can fit
out the little maid with her summer ward
robe for $500 per dress. You will now and
then find one at 81 or IS, and on the other
hand you will often have to pay $40 or $12.
As you need at least twelve dresses to take
her through the summer, you will find the
buying rather expensive.
Prudent women, even those who have a
great deal of money, often prefer to buy
but one or two dresses which serve as
models for those they will make at home
No less a parsonage than Mrs. John Jacob
Astor, who has more money to spend than
either you or ], buys small garments for
the purpose of ripping them apart and US
ing them for patterns. She then purchases
nice materials upon which her seamstress
works.
Women whose health is not such as to
warrant fine needlework can buy very
plain lawn. dimity and pique dresses ready
made and afterwards embellish them al
odd moments.
The same may be said of underclothing.
Many women buy a cheap corset cover.
paying but nine cents for it. They take the
innocent corset cover and put insertion In
1T. edge il with needle work and dress it
up until it is worth $1.5O. They run baby
ribbon through the insertion and they tie
it around the throat with the same ribbon.
They set band of embroidery around the
waist and run tiny ribbon through the
band. These they tie in front, giving the
corset cover very smart appearance
When they have finished they really own
an article that is worth the money. Their
reasoning is that the professional corset
cover maker gels better fit than is possi-
BILE at home, and that they are willing
when the first work is done to add IN tt
themselves by their own exertions rather
than pay the corset dealer for fine hand
work.
so with children's undertaking. You
can save great deal by buying plain
garments and adding 10 them yourself.
The sisters in the convent make tba
most beautiful hand work known. Time
is no object 10 them and neither is money
When they work they work for God. NOT
for man. This may seem an Idle state
ment, but II you doubt It's value. inst r,,t
a little of your work out 10 the convene
sisters, wherever you may happen 10 live
and note what they will give you. The
price you pay for Il may seem exhorbt-
tant compared 10 sweatshop price. bur n
you viii make a little tabulation in yonr
note book OF the work and Of time II
wears mink you viii find that you have
not lost "a great deal through the GOOD 49,
ters
There is a curious fact about this years
dresses for children that while more clan
crate, they are cheaper. ana that. ybge
apparently more elegant. they are -
hne' They are not simple. because thero
u embroidery ana lace upon them. bYt
lsey eet thsF elegance from the han1