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tion These cut glass flower pots are
trimmed with silver and the glass pot is
lined with white paper before the earth
Is put in.
luncheon during Easter week will
have four of these glass pots with lilly
trees" at the four corners of the table.
and in the center will be one of the
branching candelabra with eight candles
shaded by pierced silver shades over thin
pale green silk Innings. Cut glass and
silver dishes of green candies. olives and
sailed almonds will be grouped about the
candelabra and at each place will be a
small white pasteboafd slipper with the
guests name.
Wicker hampers of white lacquer are
ready at the florists for Easter giving.
The baskets will be filled with wet sand
and beneath the propped up lid will be a
mass of blossoms. forming solid bank
within the top of the basket. N1olets
usei in this way are eXquisitely lovely !:
yellow. jonquils also are springlike and
attractive in the white lacquer baskets.
When the flowers have faded. sachet
may be put in the bottom of the basket.
which will make an admirable glove or
handkerchief receptacle.
1t is quite the fad to present work
baskets disguised as flower or bonbon
holders, the daintily lined and fitted bas-
ket being, Of course, very carefully pro-
tected by oiled paper before the candies
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Fancy BIouses.

THERE is no end of odd designs IN
! fancy blouses. some of which look
just as if the maker had run short of ma
terial and the garment had to be pieced
out with other goods and patched togeth-
err with scraps of odd lace. Persian de-
signs with red in combination with soft
light shades are used with plain white
and give a stunning effect. Sometimes
the upper yoke OF the design forms a sort
of yoke with the entire lower waist and
sleeves of plain white material. Blue
over white is a favorite color scheme.
Some of the new dress garnitures are
really net boleros. Respondent with jew
els, spangles and beads They are 50
elaborate as to suggest the glitter of the
stage dancer, but are not overgorgeous
when worn with the dark gown of simple
lines. A good device in making over the
last years dress is to use the little boz
lero of embroidery. 1t will make an old
waist look very smart Oriental embroid-
cries may be used In this way to good adj
vantage.
The most economical and satisfactors-
way OF obtaining a hand-embroidered
shirt waist is to purchase a readymade
waist with machine embroidered design,
and work over the embroidery by hand.
thus saving stamping. padding and MAX
ing the waist. A blouse embroidered in
this way is just as truly hand-embroid-
cred, with the added advantage of being
quickly and accurately done.
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The Spring Silhouette Does the New "Godet'
SkirtForetell a Change in Fashions? Taffeta
Undoubtedly the Summer Silk in Favor.
DaShing Hats With Domure Suits.

unsophisticated folk are at their wits
end to know what these unfamiliar terms
may mean.
But the cut-away coat, the set-in
sleeve, the caught-up skirt and the one
side opening will all be important fea-
lures of the Atlantic City Easter pageant
this year. for these effects have been
adopted indisputably not only by the
Paris couturiers who brought out the
spring styles, but by all the lesser min
ions of Queen Fashion who follow these
great ones from afar. Every woman
knows now that the cutaway coat is the
thing, and-unless her hips are hopelessly
prominent-has determined to have one of
these dashins, chic little coats. Four va
rieties OF the cutaway are shown on to-
days page: three in tailored suit models
and the fourth in very elaborate satin
luncheon frock designed by Paquin for
an American bride, who will wear this
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ming which holds the tunic in good lines
This costume will he worn hv a vouns
widow and is all in subtle gray tones
bit somher and subdued. but not too
Somber and subdued to be interesting.
The tunic of black shadow net. We ghtei
with its pearl trimming, is Dire ped over
a skirt of pale gray taffeta. The sclrf
dIapery on me bodice is OF crepe char
meuse lined with pearl gray satin. TIE
hat OF stone-coiored chip Is trimmed with
black velvet ard white hydraneca Bead
and metal trimmings weight the dia nha-
nous fabrics of which evening gowns are
made. and the effects are clinging ana
classic and very, very glitteriDg. for
diamante effects are the grande chic.
and rhinestones and other flashing stones
are sewn thickly along the edges OF
chiffons and satins, and are wrought
also into wonderful border embroideries.
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Trimmings and Braids.

FASHION is going back to liberal
l. use of trimmings, and these include
all of the braid family, many passe-
menterie and beaded effects, velvet rib
bons, fringes, buttons, contrasting fabrics
and all the old-time arrangements OF
these trimmings.
The trimmings that are favored for
evening wear are those elaborated with
crystal and pearl beads and brliliants
white being the leading shade. Color Is
usually introduced in the form OF nordl
motifs made Of pale-tinted chiffon, or
even satin.
Edge trimmings consisting OF strung
rllineStOneS, pearls or crystal pedcS, dre
among the favored trimmings Tor evening
and dinner dresses. The cut-out necAs
and tunics are edged with trimmings OF
this character. Another novelty on this
order is the floral trimming in vine ef-
feet, which consists OF SILK cord or
narrow ribbon, to which are attached at
regular intervals small roses OF white or
colored chiffon, frequently yelled in metal
gauze These are usually selected to
match the garnitures ana Danonss SHOW
ing similar floral MOTHS
Ertnpes are seen in all varieties. The
beaded effects and gold and silver ball
fringes are for evening garments, Whie
the silk cord and the ball drop varieties
are for day wear. There are cotton
white and champagne tints.
New open and other fancy braids are in
black, black-and-white, silver gray, ecru
and tan, and are in lacey styles that are
SO light that they will add no more
weight than the ordinary guipure or tor
chon laces which they initiate. and they
have the advantage of added durability.
There are also fringed braids and fancy
rattaiI cords In colors and ball edgings
in pastel tints and in gilt mixtures, all of
which will prove delightful finishings on
dressy costumes.
There will be some braiding done on
Il ox,l e,svff
In soutache cords and narrow tubular
braids Braid ornaments Of all kinds.
such as frogs. pendants and tassels, are
SEEN Black silk varieties &se for early
spring and white cotton for late spring
and summer White cotton ornaments
will also be dyed to match the dress or
suit of linen, terry cloth. etc. Cotton
pendant ornaments, cords, buttons and
drop fringes are seen which have a COW
ering of agaric cloth. They are In white
and champagne.
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Short Cuts for the Housekeeper

warm water and pressed dry, but not
squeezed. Lay it upon a sheet to dry, but
do not hang it up. or 1t will drag out
of shape. When dry. put 1t on, pull the
shoulders into shape, stretch the collar
into proper proportions and pull down
the sleeves. Fasten one button at the top,
stretch the hips into shape. and then but
ton from the lowest button upward, get
ting some one to pull the sweater even
around the extreme edge. II this is
done, the sweater will have a good shape.
A dyed sweater should be cleaned in like
manner.
Fine white flannels may be pressed
with a cool iron on the wrong side or on
the right side IL a piece of muslin IL laid
over it first, as this will make them
smoother and show up the work, but
they must be quite dry first, or the iron
will turn the moisture into steam and so
cause them to shrink. Ironing. without
doubt. gives fiannels fine appearance.
but as the warmth Of flannel depends TO
great extent on its soft, woolly surface.
it is pity to deprive it of this by iron
Ing, especially in the case of garments
that are worn. as underwear. They
should. instead, be well shaken and pull
ed into shape. folded evenly, aired care
fully and put away.
* =
Some reasons why fannes shrink:
"a Soap has been rubbed on them in
stead Of soap jelly being used.
CD They have either been washed or
rinsed in water too hot or too cold.
CD They have been allowed To lie about
wet. instead of being hung up to dr..
Immediately.
"a They have been dried too slowly.
60 They have been dried SO close To An
open fire that they steamed.
90 They have been ironed while wet
with very hot iron.
Recipe for soap jelly: Take as much
soap as will be required and cut il down
in shreds. Put 1t into a saucepan and
just cover il with hot or cold water. Al
low the soap to melt slowly over the fire
until il is quite clear and without Jumps.
Do not fill the saucepan too full. as soap
is much inclined to boil over. The soap
may be- put into a jar instead Of a sauce
pan, and melted in the oven. Any scraps
of soap may be used up in this way. 1t
is better to make soap jelly fresh each
week, as 1t loses its strength if kept
many days.
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new WASH MATERIALS
VARIED AND beautiful

livery WHERE in the stores one sees
Z the smartest of wash fabrics, some
SO glorif1ed in appearance that they seem
almost to have lost their identity. WASH
goods once meant lawns. batistes, or
candies, calicoes and lightweight weaves
generally, but the times and fashions
have changed all this, and the heaviest
of piaues and crashes are now grouped
with cotton chiffons and voiles.
There are heavy linens with their more
mr. less fancy weaves and f1let or en-
broidered borders, dainty voiles with a
border at one side, or both. and with
or without an additional center panel
design, filmy chiffons. plain or pencil
striped and powdered all over with eN-
auisite buds and blossoms, French mar
uuisettes in black and white yarns, with
ribbon effect borders, imported piques
in madras stripes. some with the ribs
or cords running lengthwtse, some cross
wise, agaric or ratine. or Turkish towel
ing varieties, new for dresses and trim
mings In white and bright leather color.
the soft rose. blue, wistaria, yellow. tan.
cerise and old blue tints Of all these fab
RIGS.
Bordered wash materials of all textures
ana weights are exquisite III ocslsh dhu
beauty, as we'll as practical. Many are
bordered in black and colors on white.
some are embossed with velvet in discs
and dots, others are block printed in
fascinating designs and colors, and many
have drawnwork borders IN imitation of
filet, the latter being more especially
shown In coarse linen crashes and ratine
Weayes While the background is usu-
ally white some exquisite shades Of pink,
hl,a raSeda tan. heliOtrOpe. gerantum
and other reds are seen. Ecru will be a
fayorite color of summer. Many beau
tiful gowns of embroidered batlste are
i'm this tint.
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son are pictured here, both of these ar
rangements showing roses apparently
growing in dainty white porcelain Jars
with empire decorations in silver. OF
course. so many roses could not possibly
blossom on a plant set in one of these
small receptacles-there would be no room
for the roots, to say nothing of the
branches required to bear SO many large
and perfect roses. The roses, on long
stems from which the leaves have been
stripped, are massed together in the COM
pact shapes pictured; the stems are tied
firmly and are set in the earth and moss
which hold the structure from topping
over. Until ready to be used on the
Easter dinner table the roses are Kept IN
a cool place and well sprinkled with
water. The sphere of roses is made of
pale pink La France blossoms. and the
cone shaped bush is formed of tea roses
with pink arbutus massed at the base.
There is something very smart about
these new dinner table centerpleces of
roses, though the stiff arrangement OF
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To Wash Wooden Goods.
VIE washing of wooden goods is quite
an art. The cumbersome and I'M


hygienic underwear of the past has
been entirely superseded by neatly fitting
garments Of lighter and more generally
open material, yet affording the neces-
sary warmth and absorption of perspira-
ton. For want of a little knowledge such
goods are easily spoiled.
An excellent way Of washing woolens
and blankets is to use boraX in the water.
1t keeps wool from shrinking and colors
from streaking and not only cleanSes
thoroughly, but also antiseptically. The
following is the best possible modern way
of washing blankets and fine woolens:
FIJI a tub full of warm water. Add two
large tablespoonfuls of borax and enough
soap jelly to make good suds. Throw a
blanket in and squeeze it gently. Do not
wiring with the hands. and by no means
should a. board be used, else the feecy
surface will mat into hard little Jumps
and the blanket be ruined. Rub between
i the hands gently, and send through rub
Der wringer into a second tub of water of
the same temperature. and with borax
md soap added. Each rinsing water
must be of the same temperature. and
even the last must contain borax and
little soap.
>; !;
To prevent shrinking, wooden goods
must be dried very quickly. and much OF
the moisture can be shaken out. The
shaking also raises the pile of the wool
and makes it soft. See that such things
are pulled into their natural shape be-
fore they are thoroughly dry, and hang in
the air, but not in the sun. II drying IN
doors must be resorted to. do not hang
too near the fire nor in too great heat.
If the slightest steam rises from woolens
when they are drying there is too much
heat Shawls ought to be pinned on
sheet or carpet or on a felt or blanket
and thrown over the line. Wool when
wet is plastic. retaining almost any shape
into which it may be drawn; hence special
care must be taken to keep wooden gar
ments in good shape during the process OF
washing and drying.
4 white sweater should be washed in
tepid suds with white soap, then rinsed in
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Easter-white satin is a bank of purple
parma violets arranged for a corsage
bouquet These violets are not real, but
are the expensive imitation sort which
are fashionable just now. and which add
such an effective touch to any indoor
costume. Another heart-box, of light
pink satin, has decoration of satin roses
and loops of ribbon. The third candy
receptacle is in the shape of a mild-eyed
Easter parrot with white and dove gray
plumage just tinged with rose pink. He
stands in a bed of -pansies. and is evil
IDENTIFY enjoying a meal of the same flow
ers which make a charming color har-
mony with his rosy pink plumage. The
parrot comes apart. and inside is space
for over a pound of chocolates.
There are attractive boxes covered with
artistic prints and cretonnes, in which
Easter flowers may be sent; and If one
cannot afford to send her a ten-dollar
corsage bouquet to wear Easter morning,
one may send a delightful Easter bou-
tonn'ere of eardenias. violets or moss
rosebuds combined with maiden-hair fern.
TINS VIII be lifted from it's fascinating
box of cretonne to adorn my ladys tai
iored coat or her muff on Easter day.
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nineteenth century. from the time OF the
youthful queens coronation to about
1850. 1t is part of the Victorian fad
this craze for taffeta. and though the
new taffetas are so wonderfully soft and
SUI pie there Is certain crispneSS in the
softest taffeta that foretells the doom
of clinging fashions. 1t has been clever
ly said that the new fashions ARE early
Victorian in everything but width" but
already skirts are beginning to show
''gcdets''-an old-fashioned name for in
serted cores giving fullness-and the set
in sleeve. full at the elbow, is the fore
runner. the wiseacres insist, of a de-
c.ded bell shape soon to appear.
The dinner gown Cor Atlantic City wear
hints at this fuller skirt effect in a
tunic slightly rippled around the bot
tom, but the ripple is kept in subsection
by the weight of the bead border trim
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Rhinestone Flowers Now.

THE craze for diamante effects does
not abate. and now appears new
hat pin even more blaZingly brilliant
than the balls and disks which have been
in favor for a year or so past. The head
Of this new hat pin is widely opened
rose, with petals made of small rhine
stones, and the three tiers of fiery petals
are exceedingly brilliant I'm sunlight or
gaslight. These new hat pins come from
Paris and, by the way. are much shorter
than the dangerous long pins which have
protruded from women's hats this winter.
A season ago, when huge hats were in
fashion, hat pins were also foot in
length, and it seems to be the unusual
woman who will go to the trouble and
trifing cost of having one of these long
pins cut down to suit the smaller head
gear worn this season.
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modish toweling, and the cuffs reach part
way between eiDow and "rIst, u.sf-,.s 80,
long gloves of champagne silk embroid
cred with white. Though this mohatr
suit is quite demure in style, the hal is
very dashing and is made of chantilly
lace over gold tissue, with a plume in
pale tan draped along one side.
Nobody thought women would think
we'll of early Victorian styles after the
slinky. snaky draperies that have been
in vogue for the past season or two; but
everybody goes into raptures over the
cunning frocks with quaint puffings, pip
ings, ouillings and other trimmings of
the Victorian era. When one says Vic
torian'' of course early Victorian is inn
plied-the days CT the beginning of the
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- 1T would be too banal nowadays TO
send her mere noseSay OF Vio-
let's or a box of roses or even a
81 growing azealea on Easter morn
ing, no matter how many dollars
the floral offering might represent. The
Easter gift to be worthy of my modish
ladys favor must have an originality
an eccentricity about it that marks it as
something above the commonplace re-
membrance of mere blossoms that any
body might think of.
The florists rack their brains at East
er time TO evolve new and unusual eff
fects. and. needless to say, one pays a
substantial sum over the very sub
stantial cost OF the flowers them
selves, for their fashionable mode of ar
rangement.
Two new conceits for this Easter sea-
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or sand for flower stems are added. A
large two-pound bonbon box of light blue
satin is square in shape, though only two
inches high. and on the cover of the box
is a Vatican copy in delicate tints. When
the cover is lifted off the box is seen to
be partitioned into FIVE sections, one
small, triangular section across each cor
ner and a square section at the center.
Each section has it's cover or flap, which
may be lifted by loop of ribbon. Such
a box when the various sorts of candies
have been enjoyed, will make an ideal
workbox for all sorts Of belongings may
be tucked away conveniently and neatly
in the corner cupboards while scissors.
spools and pincushions are ready at hand
in the padded center portion.
Flower and candy gifts in most attrac-
tive combination are shown IN a second
Illustration. On one heart-shaped box of
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in anything but a bathing suit The satin
skirt of the Oriental fantasie" is in
lovely dull blue shade, and the gay cut
away jacket is made of cerise chiffon en-
broidered in the same shade of blue and
trimmed with crescent-shaped motifs Of
white silk, on which are embroidered
suns and stars in this dull blue and a
much darker Indian blue. The embroid-
cred cerise coat fastens at the bust and
then slopes away over a full cream net
vest to form the square position at the
back. High over the cream net vest is
folded a soft cerise taffeta sash and at
the back this sash is drawn down and
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A Dainty Easter Gift.

THE fittings for a boudoir writing ta-
BILE or desk are vastly more frivo-
lous than the dignified belongings of the
library downstairs. Ny lady is not sup
posed to indite anything more serious
than friendly notes. dinner invitations
and love letters at her own desk upstairs,
and silver fittings with cut glass ink bot
ties and vases for the flowers that al
ways brighten a dainty woman's writing
table are the appropriate furnishings. To
match these pretty silver and cut glass
trifles there Is a new desk blotter-white.
of course. with corner mountings of fill
gree silver, and in one of these silver
corners Is inserted a small silver-faced
watch which is always conveniently ready
to be glanced at during the half hour
snatched for correspondence.
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A New Bit of JeWeIry.

- AY little cravats and neckties of coll
~ ored silk are all the fad now. with
bodices and blouses that fasten at. the
front. and for wear with these soft silk
ties there. are jeweled slides of repousse
or flligree gold with settings in antique
effect. The tie is not knotted, but is SIM
ply held by the slide, the end falling
over the bodice.
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phrases which any woman can coiiple-
bend, but when the style descrlpers oe-
gin to talk of godets, peplums, positions,
hat brim movements. cravat-boWs on
belts auiIis of roses and the like. many
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AVE you noted
how many Of the
new styles are de-
scribed by hyphen-
ated wordso The
caught-up s X i r t Z,
the cut-away coat,
the set-in sleeve,
the one-side open
ing are all at the
top notch of fash
ion. These are
q uite s i m p | e
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the flowers could never be called grace
full or artistic
:.
Tall ascension lilies are arranged In the
same massed fashion, and with the beau
tiful green and white of the flower ar
rangement a flower pot of sparkling cut
glass makes a very beautiful combina-
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Some handbags of the present are Of
such huge proportions that they might be
mistaken for valises.
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In the universities Of Germany women
comprise AZ per cent Of the students.
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costume first at Atlantic City during
Easter week.

This frock. as the photograph shows,
has a straight skirt of satin, slightly
fulled into natural waistlne, and slashed
away at the lower edge to show the foot.
For American patrons a petticoat of some
sort is always added to these slashed
skirts. for in America there is an uncon-
querable (by the counturiers) prejudice
against revealing the neither extremities
The Irish standard., 1912-07-13
Tho Emigration Question.

The Irish National Emigration
Council are still in communication
with the American Government re the
emigration question. The greatest
danger threatening Ireland today is
the danger Of the etinction of the
Irish lace within her own shores. For
nearly sixty years the flow of emf
grafton has gone on continuously till
the population of the country has re-
duced one-half. Ignorance of the
conditions prevailing in America and
the prepaid passage tickets are among
the chief immediate causes of emf
grafton. Obviously public opinion in
Ireland still requires to be educated,
on the one hand, as to the poor
chances of the emigrant, and to ap-
peal to the Irish settled there not to
encourage their friends at home, by
sending prepaid passage tickets, to
cross the Atlantic.