The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-14
OF INTEREST
 TO WOMEN A Sense of Proportion in Saving-Comparison a Means
 Of Arriving at Value of Things-Hard to Judge Anything When Looked at Just by Itself-The Gro chet Needle Again in Use -Sashes Are Popular.

had s10,000 we Scould save more than if we had $1.O0O, and if we had $500. But the principle is the same in all cases, and the thrifty person always saves and the wasteful person never does, no matter what their respective incomes.
 A lack of proportion is at the bot tom of many of the disagreeable things of life. A slovenly person does superficial amenities of life; friv- olous person places too much. A stingy person over-estimate tes the value of penny; an extravagant person underestimates it.
 The best way to get a correct pro- portion is by comparison. It is hard to judge anything-from piece of broadcloth to a moral action-when we look at it by itself. We must look at the oroadcloth in the piece and in contrast with other broadcloths. and we must look at the moral action in and the one who is effected by it. In other words, we must really care about the happiness or progress of others as much as we care about our own.
 The old lady who remarked. My corns ache. but, what's the use of fussing? A corn is a very small thing. and the happiness of family is a very large thing" was exactly right. She saw that the comfort of tant than the discomfort of one.
 The snob who looks at life only from her parlor windows; the business wom- an who looks at life only over her office desk and the housekeeper who looks at life only from her neatly swept threshoOld, are all in danger of losing their sense of rela tive values, unless they think occasionally about one another.
 A sense of proportion would answer to the definition that the small boy gave of a ie-"a very present help in time of trouble It teaches one that it is bad taste to wear an elaborate coiffure in the morning with shirt waist and skirt, that it is annoying to a business man to be telephoned at his office about some social event, that to complain at the inevitable is waste of breath.
 There are two correlative ways of arriving at sense of proportion. One way is to think of your life as whole-nOt merely by detached incl dents-like the child who wants pie and eats pie and has a pain and never connects the pain with the pie. The other way is to think of the comforts and duties of others as we'll as your own.
 Thinking of our lives as a whole and thinking of other lives in connec- tion with ours-these are the surest ways to that most temperate of all the virtuesta sense of proportion. CROCHET HOOKS AND sHUTTLEs
 Just now the crochet needle is piled induStriOuSly and Old-fashioned borders are being copied for table cloths sheets, bedspreads and the val ances or bedsides that were admitted a nf 70 c furnishings.
 The patterns are fine and elaborate, and to the tyro in such matters the instructions drawn up in print for the guidance of the work are as Ob- scure as Coptic signs.
 But 1t is possible to become an ex- pert crochet worker without much trouble. Patience in the preliminary stages and a passion for accuracy are all that is required as mental equip ment, but the fingers must, of course, be agile and delft.
 BlouseS decorated with crochet are we'll decorated. The fine strong ''lace'' is adapted admirably for making col lar bands, wristletS and the centre front, and also for the medallions that may be required in pursuance of the ornamental scheme. The quaint bird ribbon pattern is old-faShioned and very pretty.
 Tatting is another form of hand icraft calculated to tax the patience of it's devotees. but to produce, if cleverly made an enduring and effec- tive result. It can be used just as crochet work is; and makes even dain- tier edges for trimming baby clothes and exceedingly fine napery, such as tray clothes and doilies.
 Netting is also being revived, and the ham and pie dish fril1s that were never omitted in the cooks final eff forts toward elegance some 50 years ago, are forming a fresh item in the scheme that makes the simple life of modernity so picturesque and desir- able.
 In these four forms of fancy work the needle is superseded. But there are others for which it is required It is needed for eyelet holes or broderic anglalse work, which used to be call ed punched embroidery and was the darling pastime of the mid-Victorian elegante. It is a delightfully."- pretty establishment for collars and dresses, and like all the other forms of handi- craft mentioned already can be de- veloped in color as we'll as in the customary and usually preferred white presentment
 For children's wear it is a specially charming trimming, meet to take a place with shocking and the blind" embroidery, so called in differentia- liOii oI ilS SpTlSS ana 1IOWeretS and the openwork of the broderic anglaise
 The girl who likes copying the peas and punched embroideries
 ant embrOideries of other lands has long delighted in Russian cross-stitch and has abandoned it in favor of the boldly patterned Roumanian embroid- cries now very modish for trimming frocks. and the drawn Hardanger work. which is very handsome also.
 -SASHES ARE POPULAR
 All kinds of sashes are popular. chiffon. satin, silk, velvet ribbon or material by the yard, and the sash that can be worn at the side or in the back, one end must be larger than the other, and even for the young girl the fringed ends are permissible. al. though hitherto fringe has always been included in the grown-up trim m1ngs. Flounced or plain ribbon sashes are extremely fashionable for the young girls wear. not as trim. mings, be it understood. but as a fin- ish and addition to any gown of thin material