Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-18

EHE NEW LACE CLOTH.
snmmer Roses are Made Of Lawn.
MULE, Dimity and Other Thin
Naterlals-Pale Shades are Very
Popular.

Inc good mafronS OF old New York
when It was d.st.nctively thrifty Dutch
town. took the month of February for
their summer sewing. As soon as the
holiday sweets were digested and the
house cleared of the festive greens, they
brought forth from chest and drawer,
yards and yards of white goods out Of
which they Fashioned the summers wear
Ing apparel.
Nor was 1t Of home spinning. Mulls
were brought from England, ginghams
from Holland, and, off in the hills of Rip
Van Wrinkle, back of the Palisades, stood
fine mill, turned by a natural stream,
where was woven many a yard of French
tarletan, thin goods as fine as a fairy
wing, to be worn next summer by the rosy
checked girls Of Manhattan.
This custom has descended, and to-day,
II you happen of a morning In the homes
OF the best matrons of Greater New York,
you will see cheerful sight. In the lar
gest living room In the house, with her
materials spread out around her, sits a
bustling little seamstress. while surround
ing her are the members of the family,
mothers and daughters, assisting and do
ing her bidding. The seamstress measures
the goods and cuts them out to. be bested
by one of the daughters; after which the
little seamstresss does the fitting, leaving
the finishing for the willing fingers of
mother and daughters. In this thrifty
way dozens of light summer dresses can
be turned out and the cost of making ex-
tends little beyond the first, price of the
goods, for the seamstress works at So per
day and less
Getting Them Ready.
There are visiting dressmakers in New
York who command IS per day They are
expert filters and are well posted In the
newest modes One Of their qualifications
Is an annual trip to Paris They call
themselves "tailors," and their services
are sought for the most elegant of tailor
made gowns, as we'll as for very elabore te
wedding and reception dresses. They are
worth their price, when you reflect that
for similar work you may have to pay the
price of 500 at any very fashionable lad
les tailoring establishments.
But for the summer dress the little
seamstress answers every purpose and If
she be a graduate of large house, as she
should be- she will do her work well.
The selection Of the materials that are
to be rebuilt into August dresses is a SER
fous one for the person who undertakes
IT.. Ones own taste Is scarcely reliable,
for the goods of the coming summer are
90 new and so strange that it is impossible
to picture them ma de up 1t is much safer
to observe the ready-made models, to
study the fashion pictures, and to follow
the regulation lines adapted them slightly
to figure personal coloring and purse.
Lace cloth Is the name given to the new
summer fabric which will be most worn.
1t has openings, regularly cut in the mater
3al, and so resembles lace. Lace cloth can
be worn over a silk SIP. Or ribbons can be
sassdc ~over>a SIX lining. 1t is capable
of such variety of treatment!
A Favorite Style.
A modiste, when asked what would be
her favorite model for summer lawns, re-
Piled that if she were making one thous-
and dresses for the summer girl she would
make nine hundred of them with separate
waists and skirts Then she explained that
the waist would be cut upon the round
pattern, without yoke in the back and
with only the very slightest bag in front,