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ticularly attractive for spring wear. 1t is
cool in suggestion. does not show the
dust and looks especially we'll with
shades of violet or green in millinery. But
while all shades OF blue are satisfactory
N street suits, gray must be chosen with
caution. Some grays fade badly: Others
are trying To the complexion. and only a
few have a smart look when built in Sc
we're, tailored styl2.
Hairlined mohairS. in black or navy
grounds with white stripping. are being
made up into exceedingly chic little suits
BY the French taiors, and there are also
some gray mohafr suits with trimmings
of seif-colored braiding which are dainty
and charming. Mohair is an ideal ma
terial for spring and summer wear and
when well made such suits have a more
dressy suggestion than the utility suit of
serge or homespun.
x x
The white molair suits with wide white
braid trimmings are especially pretty.
White tailored wear is to be the fad this
summer. and the tailors who have been
making Palm Beach outfits have had
many orders for white serge and mohair
coat and skirt suits, white serge and rat
Inc Norfolk suits for outing use and white
polo coats for motor wear The Norfolk
outing suits, with short. simply made
skirts ard hip-Iength belted jackets. are
delightful. OF course, the jackets are
we'll provided with pockets. as outing
toys should be. With these white suits
are worn white panama hats and white
buckskin shoes and gloves.
1t seems like getting little ahead OF
the game to talk about white linen suits
vet. but the model pictured on today
mage was so dainty and pretty that IL
was tucked in with the darker street suits
as a little promise of things to come. The
suit is built of white linen in the new
straight and rather scant lines. the sklrs
heing trimmed with panels of embro.d-
cry and drawnwork, and motifs of the
rdrawnwork decorating the coat, which is
scalloped all around the edge. With TINS
adorable little suit is shown White
panama hat, whose brim is covered with
velvet and whose crown is hidden beneath
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batistes and mulls with exquisite hand
embroideries. The Byron collar fits closely
around the neck at the back. like the
Dutch collar. but in front 1t points down
in a sharp V, which shows the throat
somewhat more than the round Dutch
style. These deeply V'd collars, however,
are vastly more becoming than the trying
Dutch affairs, which were pretty only on
the youngest and loveliest threats.
A beautiful French Trouville collar, en-
broidered in q Partisan convent, is illus
trated. This collar is attached to a deeper
collar and flchu which is intended to cross
in front of the bodice in surplice effect,
one end Of the flchu being passed through
the little embroidered strap on the other
end. This collar and fichu are made of
very fine batiste, embroidered by hand in
g. scallop, dot and eyelet design, narrow
val lace being flilled under the scalloped
edges.
Another convent collar is shown. This
model is one of the large shoulder collars
which are much the fad now in Paris.
These big, delicately embroidered null
collars are worn over short-waisted en-
pire bodices in very quaint effect, the
hugs collar coming to the waist line of
the frock at the back.
F1cht of every sort promises to be q
fad of the summer, and every woman
should rejoice; for nothing more distract
ingly allurng to masculine fancy. more
appealing in it's feminine charm or more
universally becoming than the fichu has
ever been devised III woman's dress. Some
of the new tichus are made Of fine null.
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smarter with a high well boned stock
than with the bare throat, which is quite
permissible in summer weather.
Irish and ciuny insertions sewed to-
gether by hand make the smartest and
most durable stocks for street wear.
These laces are strong and may be worn
and washed through a season without
pulling apart, as the finer walls do. Such
a stock. with a little yoke attached. may
he done up over night in ones bedroom.
the lace being Well soaped and left soak
Ing for ten minutes in warm water then
washed and well rinsed in clear water
and afterward pinned out flat on a pill
low. once in so often fine neckwear
should be well dampened and laid out on
d pillow, or. better still, on the grass in
the strong sunshine to bleach snowy
white.
There Is no heater smarter neck
finish with the tailored suit of Worsfed or
mohair than the tall stock and small
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The Dark Corners.

MANY housewives in tho cites COM
AvA plain that one of their main troi-
bles is IN getting light in many Of the
rooms. The problem has been onl$ slish,-
ly touched when artificial! iiSht : keat
going during the entire day. This i bad
for the eyes as we'll as the purse. Much
can be done to make room light ~ to
use of white paint sunny yellow pa
per- or thin curtains against the Will
dows and no shades. Thin yellow silk
curtains are very pretty as we'll as su,-
able in the way of lighting.
A room that is naturally dark should
not be fitted up with dark furniture Al
though dark picture frames are the latest
fad they do much to make a room LOOK
darker. Bright gilt frames or while ones
are much better. Mirrors are also good in
q dark room, giving an effect Of light. 4
very dark corner can be llghtened to a
considerable degree by the introduction
OF a long mirror. This can be framed in
gilt and hung with bright tapestries.
Brass ornaments also aid
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Salads Easily Contrived.

Here are suggestions for several salads
a little out OF the ordinary and easily
prepared. Canned cherries and pecan
nuts tossed up with we'll mixed French
dressing and served on lettuce leaves
are pretty to look at and good to the
taste
The canned Spanish red peppers conf
bined with celery. lettuce and mayor
naise make delicious salad. Fill tue
peppers with the cut celery or cut the
peppers in pieces and toss with the eel
ery in mayonnaise, but in either case
serve on lettuce.
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waistline But the fit at shoulder and
hip is SO perfect and the sleeves so ex-
quisitely fitted and set into the body of
the garment that the little coat seems
nodded to the figure, and the figure it
self seems sienderer and more supple than
it often really is. Sometimes a straight
band Of the material is set around the
lower edge of the coat, making the fit at
the hips appear even more snug and close.
Oblique front fastenings are seen on
many Of the new coats. and often these
are used on collarless models. a strip of
braid or other fat trimming passing
around the neck opening and down one
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Pear Custard.

Drain the fruit free from juice, and
cut into small pieces. Mix one table
spoonful of cornstarch with two of
cold water, add half cupful of sugar
and stir we'll. Put into saucepan.
add one pint Of boiling water and one
teaSpconfUt butter, and stir until thor
oughly blended. Beat the yolks of two
eggs smooth and mix with them one table
spoonful OF cold water. Turn the two
mixtures together. and cook three min
utes. Take from the fire and chill thor
oughly. Add the pears and garniSh with
little mounds of whipped and sweetened
cream. Serve at once.
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Coats Shorter But Skirts Longer--No Collars the
Smartest Mode1s--Never Were Braid and But
tons So Popular-Navy, Gray and Pore White
the Smart Colors-The Small Belongings.

The ordinary models are twenty-four or
at NEST twenty-six inches long, and the
Paris arrivals are still more abbreviated.
there being hints of Etons and little en-
pire boero effects for later on when the
more dressy suits come forward.
At present. OF course, the chief inter-
est is in 1tilitarian mOdels-the clever
little knockabout and trotabout affairs
which are donned with the new spring
hat for frs: shopping and general street
wear, and which, bit later. serve for
travelling use. Women of fastidiouS taste
prefer rather simple styles in suits or
this sort, smartness of flush and per-
lection of line being the chief require
nlents. Often as much as a hundred and
fifty dollars is paid by the ultra-fash-
ionable woman for a little two-piece suit
of this order. a suit fashioned from five
yards or less of material and having abb
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yards and yards OF airy tulle putting and
pleatings.
More dressy in type than anything Yet
spoken Of is the coat and skirt suit Of
satin--or rather of the new cloth-backed
satin which has invaded the tailor :
realm. These satin suits bear To woman
dress the same relation borne by the
velvet suits OF the winter. They az"
wonderfully attractive for special coca
Sions and for afternoon promenade a.
calling wear. but are entirely unsuitah'e
for travelling or hackabout use. The satin
suit pictured Is very dark shade OF
crows wing blue which CLEANS richly IN
the lights while being almost black IN
the shadow. Width is given to the skirt
by the side pleats set in under the trim
ming band. The short jacket has a huge
sailor collar extending down the front IN
surpliced shawl revers, this collar being
embroidered with the small milk white
beads that now SO fashionable. This
white beadwork shows up strikingiy on
the dark surface OF the satin.
Some of these dressy short coats have
a peplum arrangement below a belt or
girdle. and this new style note-only limited
at here and now-may be watched care
fully. for 1t heralds the coming Of new
styie period
The smartest coat and skirt suit may
be spoiled utterly in effect by wrong
neckwear, shabby gloves, handbag or
shoes. or an out-of-date hat These little
things are more essential than the suit
itself in producing a chic appearance. IL
the coat opens low in front-Hke the satin
model illustrated-the blouse beneath
should he Of harmonizing style anil
color. With such suit a guimpe and col
lar OF rich lace at the throat makes the
best effect. White pleateb lawn jabots
with trimmings Of Cluny or Irish lace are
always neat and correct. and this year
there are a multitude OF dainty colored
neckbows variously knotted that make
the neck look smart and trim.
With the spring suit white doeskin
gloves will be worn: or glace kid, oue-but-
ton gloves, in shades of pale fawn, tSln
or cream.
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Salmon Soume.

Cook three-duarters Of cup Of milk
and the same amount OF bread crumbs ia
a double boiler. until the mixture is
smooth. Take from the fire and add the
contents of can Of salmon drained free
from oil, freed from skin and bone amt
faxed Season with a teaspoonful OF
lemon juice, salt and pepper and fold il
two eggs beaten until very light. Turn
into a buttered mold steam thirty-iive o.
forty minutes and serve with creani
sauce mixed with cupful of canned aI1
heated peas
EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD.
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stitching and. perhaps. silk or velvet
collar. But the cut of these suits, And
the chic of them. And the wonderful
things they do In giving svelte and slen-
der lines to even heavy figures.
Such a little suit, made of ratine in
pretty shade of blue violet, was seen in
a 9TH avenue tailors last week. The
rich, soft material, light as a breath and
soft in texture in spite Of It's rough finish,
the exquisite color, and an entire sim
plicity Of design made this little suit very
charming The skirt was quite straight
and plain, except for twelve-inch fold
which was set on near the bottom Inc
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cost was twenty-four inches long and,
though fitting snugly at shoulder and hip,
was uncurved at the waist. There was a
small mannish collar faced with blue
violet velvet and small lapels of the
ratine. The front closing slanted across
from right to left and the buttons were of
violet colored horn.
Though the tailors call the new coats
box styles, they have none of the loose
clumsiness OF the regulation box coat.
which. OF course, hangs perfectly straight
from the shoulders. These new boy
coat was twenty-four inches long and
that there is no inward curve at the
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Baked Pears.

Lay the halyed pears In a baking dish,
and just barely cover with the liquor
taken from the can and made quite sweet
with brown sugar. Set in steady oven
until the strip has thickened, and is of
rich golden brown color. Take from the
oven aud cool Al serving time put the
fruit in glass saucers with little of the
Juice and cap with whipped cream.
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Glazed Pears.

Boil two pounds of sugar with two gills
of cold water until the strip forms hard
bhlls when dropped into cold water
Take at once from the fire. cut the pears
drained entirely free from juice, into
lengthwiSe strips, and dip one at a time
into the hot strip. Spread on oiled paper
To dry.
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NEW METHOD OF PRESERVING FOOD.

TO a smooth dough just soft enough to
handle. Divide into two equal parts.
roll out to the size Of an ordinary PIE
plate and place on buttered tins To nah
Split and cover half of the ca Scs wI-a
the fruit. sliced evenly, sprinkle N,tn
sugar and cream, lay on the top lees
with the crust down and cover with h.oIe
Sugared fruit and a garniSh of cream.
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Spiced Pears.

Dissolve one pint OF sugar in one quart
Of vinegar Add one teaspoonful whole
cloves and one tablespoonful each allspice
and cinnamon. Boil two minutes. Drain
the strip from can of pears, drop the
fruit into the spiced sirup and cook gen.
tly until it turns red. Serve cold with
plain cake
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Pear or Peach Shortcake.

Canned fruit is almost as good as the
fresh for this purpose. For the cake, sift
together one quart of -four. one teaspoon
full of salt and two teaspoonfuls baking
powder Rub i'm two tablespoonfuls of
butter, and with pint of rich milk mix
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which has been rinsed out with cold
water. Have ready an ounce or geiatlne
which has been dissolved in cold water
to cover, stir this into the strip. Doll up
once and strain over the fruit. Stand on
the ice to become firm. Turn out and
serve in a ring border of whipped cream
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Pear Brown Betty.

Lay the pears drained from juice in
shallow baking dish and dust we'll with
powdered cinnamon and pulverized sugar.
Cover with buttered crumbs. dust with
cinnamon. mosten with little of the
fruit liquor and brown in the oven.
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Potato Fish Balls.

Fish balls made from the dehydrated
riced potatoes are delightfully."- easy to
prepare. To a half pound of the salt
cod cooked and picked up fine allow one
cupful of riced potatoes which have been
cooked in boiling water for twenty min
utes. Season with two tablespoOnfuls
butter, one-quarter tcaspoonful each salt
and pepper, one-qlarter cuTful milk or
cream and one we'll beaten egg.
Combine potatoes fish and seasonings
and beat the entire mixture until very
light. Shape into cakes, or, better still
drop from a spoon into not fat. If shaped
into cakes they may be placed on a
buttered baking dish and baked to a
golden brown, instead of being cooked in
the deep fat.
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l. there was a dig
nifty and grace TO
I n e long-coated
suits, the youthful
launtinesS of the
short-coated models
amply makeS up for
their loss. one feels
positively frisky
try ing on the
smart new spring
suits. with their
snap and briskness
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Something New in Fish Balls.

Mix a can of salmon drained and freed
from bone with an equal quantity Of
mashed and seasoned potato. Dip the
balls in melted butter and broil under
Il gas flame.
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A CONVENT-ENBROID COLLAR
IN THE NEW LARGE SIZE.

lace: OF handkerchief linen daintily seal
Hoped and embroidered with dots, or OF
val Or calais lace in creamy tint. When
made of sheer lace or alloVer net the
stock collar is always reinforced with q
lining of plain net. which gives durability
and also lends a trimmer, smarter effect.
With black andwhite hats and dark
gray or black coat and skirt suits black
and-white net nechwear Is sometimes
seen 4 woman wearing coat and skirt
suit OF black English mohair hairlined
with white and black cabbage straw
hat with white satin ribbon trimming,
wore a very smart stock and Jabot OF
combined black and white net, which was
noted and mentally initiated in prospect
by every woman In the same Broadway
car. The high stock was of pintucked
black net over white net. The jabot was
composed CT three pleatngs, the upper
one OF black net, the next of white net
and the lower one of black net. Between
the stock and jabot in front was perched
a short, plump bow of airy black malines.
White and black tulle bows are again
being worn by smartly dressed women,
but these are much more full and not as
wide as the tulle bows fancied a short
time ago. The bow Is, moreover. made
entirely of soft loops of the tulle many
times doubled, no edges being visible.
Many styles Of colored neckwear are Of
fered in the shops; that is, of white neck
wear decorated in color. Sometimes the
color is added in the way of tandem
broideries, sometimes in tiny beads. Much
fagoting is seen the new neckwear
trifies, and dots seem also a favorite
decoration.
With the summer blouses turned down
Byron coIlars-or Trouville collars, as
they are called in Paris-will be much
affected by younger women. These collars
come in starched linen and also in sheer
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Shrimp and Canned Bamboo Sprout
Salad.

Cut the bamboo sprouts in thin slices,
mix with an equal quantity canned
shrimps and serve on lettuce leaves with
a French dressing.
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Pear Salad.

Take halves OF preserved pears, roll in
ground English walnuts or pecans and
serve on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise
dressing.
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Compete of Pears.

Prepare a thin strip in the proper
ton of one pound of sugar 10 one pint
of the pear liquor. Add the juice of
two lemons, the rind of one and the
fruit from a quart can of pears cut into
lengthwise quarters. Cook gently until
the strip has permeated the fruit, then
skim out the fruit and place in mold
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hand-scalloped and embroidered: some are
of net, trimmed with lace and pin tuck
ing: some are simply of plain null with
pleated frills at.the edge. and some are
like the fichu illustrated-of white net
with motifs of hand-embroidery set in
and more hand-embroidery done on the
net itself.
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If styles and their pretty trimming details
hat are SO essentially feminine and at
.ractive.
Coats are undeniably growing shorter.
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Delicious Dishes Made From Canned
Pears.

The pear is one of the fruits which
does not sacrifice its flavor during the
canning process. Further. it lends it
self when canned. as readily as when
fresh, to the preparation of many de-
lectabe desserts, a point TO be considered
at this season of the year when fresh
fruit is high and scarce.
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jabot finished with handsome brooch or
small crisp bow of black velvet or
satin. This style of neck finish, which
has been in favor for several seasons. Is
still adhered to by the best dressed wom-
en- in the street. The stock and jabot
may be of fine null combined with heavy
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Menu, Sunday.
BREAKFAST.
Cereal with Dates.
Salmon Fish Balls.
Toast. Marmalade.
Coffee
DINNER.
Tomato Soup. Croutons.
Olives. Spiced Pears.
Roast Chicken. Mashed Potatoes.
Dehydrated Spinach.
Cherry and Pecan Salad.
Cheese Biscuit. Pear Brown Betty.
Coffee.
SUPPER
Chicken Salad. Dreamed Potatoes
Bread and Butter.
Baked Pears. Warm Gingerbread.
Tea.
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PURGE of Spinach.

Take. for instance. a PURGE of spinach.
which every housewife will recognize AS
reouirine much time in its preparation.
To prepare. soak three cupfuls of the
debvdrated spinach in nine cups of cold
u,ta- for two hours Heat slowly to
boiling point-and after cooking twenty
minutes add one-haif teaspoonful or
salt and cook gently for thirty minutes
longer in an uncovered kettle. Dram
we'll chop fine. Melt two tablespoons Oh
butter in a saucepan and when bubblinS
hot add two tablespoOnfuls of -four. one
half teaspoonful of salt and olse-eighth
spoonful of pepper. When well combined
add three-fourthS of d cupful OF stock
and stir until thickened. Then add the
fine chopped spinach Mound i'll hot
dish. sprinkle with grated cheese and
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date housewife who wishes to provide
her family with pure food-requirlng d
minimum of labor in its preparation, VIII
do we'll to follow suit. These products.
which include nearly all vegetables ana
fruits gathered when at their best. are
preserved by the elimination of water
without destroying their delicate havor
or distinctive volatile OILS. IheS CONF
in cans-reduced in weight from one
eighth to one-twenty second the natural
green weight. When ready to use. all
that is required is preliminary soaking
IN clear cold water, to restore what was
taken out i'm the preserving process. A
great boon this to the woman numbered
with much serving.
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side Of the obliaue front fastening One
OF the suits illustrated shows this arrange
ment OF braid trimming around the neck
and down the front This suit. which is a
new model OF navy blue serge. emhodies
most OF the new style notions for spring
over the stra ght. We'll cut Skin: is a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. coat, attractiyCly YET not
too elabora tel. trimmed with braid and
buttons. With the suit - worn che Of the
pew straw turtauS made ~ raSnberry
pink straw with hria trimming OF
shlrred tareta III the same shade and
quill in he pinlsish raspberry shades
smartiy slaHted acFeSS the crown
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HIRE Is enc time in the year
when il is absolutely essential
that the neck be dressed
smartIy and we'll. This is in
the spring when furs are laid
aside and the new spring coat and skirt
.rlit is donned. With dainty spring hat,
smart splinS suit trim new low shoes
snd spoiiess new gloves the neck dressing
also absolutely must he faultleSsly fresh
" the entire effect will be spoiled.
T.y the same token. high neckwear is
usually affected even by women who
saliy like Dutch and round effects best
IL these early spring DAYS, for the throat
long swathed in furs. is extra sensitive.
and the April and MAY hreeZes are apt
to he bleak and searching. The tailored
costume also srokS much trimmer and
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The Dehydrate Vegetables and
Fruits.

1t goes without saying, however that
none but the best recognized brands of
canned goods should be used. And just
here in the between season of fruits and
vegetables. do you know of its new de-
hydrated method of preserving vege
tables and fruits? If you do not, Uncle
Sam does. and the United States Navy
has just ordered them in quantity for
their battleShips TO be used in the tours
around the world. The big steamships
on both the Atlantic and Pacific lines
have also added them to their list Of
Constants; that is, food supplies in
constant use. which can be kept on hand
without deterioration-and the up-to-