Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-12

cut ruthlessly rather than carried over for
| another season.
| Boys Of the kindergarten and primary
| school age will wear wash suits until Oc-
| tober and even later, with wooden reeferS
| for chill mornings, so the wise mother looks
| first for bargains In these materials. Sailor
| and Russian blouse suits Whlcn solo IN
| June for $40 have dropped to 81, S. or even
| S. while $ suits are cut to S2lS and S25o
Naturally the market is still flooded with
the regulation bargain SUITS for boys,
made from cheap material, stiff with dress
ing and sewed with stitches which pop
open at the first suggestion of wearir &
These are not cheap at any price.
Mate! ials from which deft-fingerei moth
ers still fashion the best-w7Ar ns garments
of all are also greatly reduced Piques.
ducks, linens, crashes and galatea cloth
which sold for 80 cents or more during the
spring are now down to half the price. One
provident mother Of two boys Of kindergar-
ten age has bought length OF dark mot
navy blue linen of extremely good quality
for 25 cents a yard, and is making 1t up
for blouses trimmed with white linen braid
and pearl buttons. This being the duli sea
son in town. she induced a tailor to make
I'D two pairs of wee trousers for each OF
the boys at 50 cents each. The wash trou-
sers will be worn of very warm days, ana
on chilly mornings the boys Will don WOOL
en- trousers
Never Varies.
The sailor suit is gaining rather than
has been logged out all summer in one
piece or two-piece linen suits built on the
Russian blouse order with wh,es socks and
patent leather trimmings" welcomes with
effuslcn a school suit on simple sailor IHlss
A pretty fall model shows galetea cloth
in black and white shepherds PLAID, with
shield sleeve insignia done In scarlet. win
this Is worn a brilliant scarlet tle DARK
red dark blue and brown linen sailor suits
are trimmed with white braid and white or
naments while pretty suits are SHOWN II,
all-white linen or white ground, striped
with dark blue dark red or dark green, and
made up with cuffs. sailor collar ana belt or
the dark coiored linen, stitched with white
or trimmed with narrow, fiat white braid.
With most of the sailor suits straight
knee-length pants are worn but with the
Russian blouse the trousers are full, ZouaVe
fashion, and held to the knee with rubber.
For early fall wear mothers who make
blouses at home are using non-shrinkable
flal mel, rather light in weight, that will
wash This comes in gray, tan and dark
blue, and the trousers can be ordered from
80 cents. Two blouses should be made for
each pair OF wee pants.
Like Home Mades.
Mothers who have the time to make fall
and summer garments for their small boys
Insist that one homemade suit will out
wear two ready-made suits. and the max
ing is largely matter of mechanical &C
curacy. Once the pattern fits the child the
success of the garment depends upon its
neat finish.
One wise mother who has not the gift
of fashioning raiment for small boys never
allie VS. her youngsters to don new suit
bought ready made, until she has run up
every seam which she can reach with her
ma chine, and sewed on al buttons, and re-
cast all button holes. In this way she pro-
longs the life of the garment and forestalls
frequent repairs
Thinks He is a Man.
AS soon as boy passes the kindergarten
stage lie longs for trousers and coats like
papa's." and these sturdy two-piece suits
in tweeds and cheviots are. after all,
much better investment than more fanciful
tcggery. When the coat is worn only to
and from school, during early fall days,
AMI cast aside on particularly warm ones,
blouse with a colarless shield is worn.
Later on a soft neglige shirt Is substituted.
This has a narrow turnover collar of the
same material.
The Windsor tie promises to be the thing
for boys this year, instead of the moro
boyish string tie In which the average
ycuEgster fairly revels. Wash Windsor
ties are offered as low as Is cents, or two
for quarter. In plain and striped zephyr
gin ghams and In myriad colors. They are
infinitely more tidy than the silk ones,
which soil 50 quickly. And. lastly, the boy
Is right IN his demand for a cap for school
wear. No hat has yet been built which yiIi