Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-23

give the correct stitch and the proper col
oring for filing in violets on doiley, but
she knows all about broderie d'Anglase OF
eyelet work. She show half a dozen
patterns in Eardanger lace. She knows
just where the monogram should be en-
broidered on her big brothers shirt and
she can take the cheap look off the SIM
plest of homemade frocks by bit of hand
work which she designs and executes in
the cool shade of the porch, while some
good-looking chap Tolls in the hammock
and thinks how jolly nice the domestic little
woman is after all.
The embroiderer, born and not trained.
Is positive genius. She scorns set pat
terms and follows her own sweet will, trust
new gown is to be planned, or new bertha
or stock is required.
For Mothers Dress.
The mother of four grown daughters,
each of whom considers herself something
of critic on dress. recently purchased for
her best summer frock a simple checked
silk in brown and white, with five yards of
ecru lace for ruffles in the sleeves.
Mother cried three of the girls in
chorus. how could you get anything SO
cheap-looking, and for best, too?''
The fourth girl sat with her head on one
SIDE studying the silk and lace, and said
nothing. She was the family embroiderer.
But when the house-to-h house dressmaker
appeared on the scene to make up mother 8
gown she found, among the trimmings pro-
vided, a vest and stock of -colored
chiffon, embroidered In small silk disks,
shading from cream to golden brown and
dashed here and there with gold. To out
line the vest was a galloon of ecru lace,
showing daisies, the hearts of the flowers
embroidered to match the disks in the
chiffon. The lace for the wrist ruffies had
the principal design run In gold thread. A
crush girdle with a gold buckle was added
and. thanks to the family embroiderer,
transformed into CONNECTION" merely by
well chosen and excellently executed hand
work.
She is Adaptable.
The up-to-date embroiderer is above all
things adaptable. She can make the best
Of things and the most of them. One of
her kind came home from a weekend party
recently to find her younger sister in tears
The family dressmaker had come and gone
and left an unsatisfactory memento of her
stay in the form of linen shirt-waist suit
for the younger sister. The color was por-
celain blue and the decoration hollow
squares built of the machine embroidered
dots, which can be purchased at eighteen
cents yard-dOts less than half an inch in
diameter and detachable, a very popular
mode of garniture for linen frocks this
summer.
"It does look so cheap, just as if it had
come off a bargain table, walled the
younger sister.
The elder sister could not contradict and
be truthful, SO she did something better
She babe the mourner wipe her eyes and
buy two dozen skeins Of mercerized floss
and the two set to work.
The family embroiderer filled in the hol-
low squares with the simplest of basket
weave stitches, the floss woven coarsely in
and out, until each square was solid mass
of quickly wrought handwork, with the
machine-made dots softened by the floss.
AS result, the younger sisters suit lost
its bargain counter air, for at the head of
each plat in the skirt, on the box plated
band down the front of the blouse, on cuffs,
collar and belt were what passed for hand
worked motifs in silky floss.
For Porch Work.
For porch work the family embroiderer
delights in marking handkerchief and In
here she INDUCES fad. Instead of having
a monogram or conventional letter stamped
on the linen, she stretches the handker-
chief over her embroidery hoops, and in
the very center. or in one corner, she writes
in delicate hand, the Christian name of
the owner. This she covers with solid
satin stitch In white mercerized cotton, if