■Che RURAL NEW-YORKER 
905 
A Becoming Pink I.inen. —The figure 
,at the left, in the second picture shows a 
simple dress of pink linen. The plain 
waist was cut out like a man’s evening 
waistcoat, in a deep rounded opening, 
showing a white linen vestee with at¬ 
tached collar. The waist was fastened a 
little at one side, an extemsion folding 
over like a belt; this had two large 
pearl buttons in a line, the buttonholes 
being bound with white. A belt stitched 
straps extending from the upper edge, 
and cut in one with the pocket, pocket 
and straps being piped all around with 
old rose silk. Each pocket was trimmed 
with a little bow of old rose ribbon bor¬ 
dered with black and blue stripes, the 
ribbon being about three-fourths of an 
inch wide, and passing through two slots 
buttonholed in ro.se color. The plain lit¬ 
tle waist fastened in front with a double- 
breasted effect, the real fastenings being 
Summer Styles in Cretonne, Foulard and Gingham 
flat to the waist had a large pearl but¬ 
ton at the back. The long coat sleeves 
had no trimming except turnback white 
cuffs. The skirt was buttoned all down 
the front with large white pearl button.s, 
and had a panel of side pleats at each 
side of the front and back. Around the 
hips were two stitched bands, held in 
place at back and front by button.s, but 
otherwi.sc loose around the skirt. This 
trimming is quite often employed; the 
bands are not sloped at top to follow the 
contour of the figure, but straight, so 
invisible, but a double row of white pearl 
buttoms, three in a row, formed a trim¬ 
ming. These buttons were sewn on with 
rose-colored silk. Instead of merely go¬ 
ing through the holes in the center the 
silk was sewn outward from the holes in 
the buttons to the outer edge, radiating 
out like .si)okes. This sewed the buttons 
down at the edge instead of the center, 
which rendered them useless as fasten¬ 
ings, but very pretty as trimmings. The 
elbow sleeves were plain except for a 
turnback cuff of white organdie, button¬ 
holed^ along the edge with rose-colored 
silk, and held together at the ends by 
bows of rose-colored ribbon, passed 
through buttonholes finished with rose- 
colored silk. The novel feature of the 
dress was the deep cape collar of white 
organdie, finished along the edge with 
rose-colored silk, and laced together at 
A Useful Pink Linen and a Juvenile Challie 
that they stand out a little at top. This 
model would be excellent for a plaid ging¬ 
ham, such as is now so popular. , 
, A .luvENiLB O 11 AI.LIE. —The little girl 
at the right, in the same picture, is 
wearing a simple but pretty challie. The 
original model had an all-over floral pat¬ 
tern of blue, with a little touch of old 
ro.se. There was nothing unusual in the 
laittern of the dress itself, but it was 
given a novel touch by its trimming. The 
straight gathered skirt had a pocket at 
each side, attached at the waist line by 
one side with rose-colored ribbon, which 
passed through buttonholes, not eyelets, 
finished with rose-colored silk. Thi.s col¬ 
lar would give a smart finish to a dress 
that was not itself new. 
Sl,U>-ON ITnai-’Okes. —There is a fam¬ 
ous shop that makes a specialty of cloth¬ 
ing for young people and a recent dis¬ 
play consisted of most attractive dresses 
and slip-ons of flowered cretonne, for 
cliildren from about two to ten year.s. 
Cretonne play dres.se.s and aprons were 
used a good deal last season, but the 
little slip-on fipired at the loft in the 
first picture is new, and .so easily 
made that it recommends itself to the 
home seamstress. It is .simply two 
lengths of cretonne, .slightly gored at the 
sides, so as to slope a little towards the 
top. These two pieces are left open at 
the sides, but are joined at the top by 
two 3t/^-inch straps which go over the 
shoulders. At the top the garment is 
gathered with several rows of shirring, 
so as to draw in the fullness to the right 
width. Shoulder straps were pointed at 
the ends, and bound all around with a 
solid color, while top, bottom and open 
sides , of the little garment were also 
bound. There was a .‘C/^s-iuch belt of the 
cretonne, al.so bound all around, fastened 
in the back with one large button, with 
some of the .slip-ons; others like the pic¬ 
ture, had a little band that buttoned .un¬ 
der the arm. The little garment could 
be laid out flat for ironing, and the 
same style could be used in gingham, or 
chambray, though the flowered cretonne 
is prettier. The little garment slipped on 
over the head without any fastening.s, be¬ 
ing worn over, a dress. The little slip- 
on was of blue-flowered cretonne, bound 
with piTik, and was accompanied by a 
little sunbonnet to match. Plain little 
dresses of the cretonne were made like 
sleeved aprons, buttoning down the back ; 
the square neck, short sleeves and little 
imekets all bound with a plain color. 
They were meant to be worn without a 
dross _ underneath. Both sun hats with 
drooping brim and full crown, and little 
sunbonnets are made of the cretonne to 
match the dresses, and if a little draw¬ 
string bag or basket covered with cre¬ 
tonne is siipplied to match it will com¬ 
plete the picture, and add to the small 
girl’s pleasure. 
The Sports Dre.ss.—A sports dress, 
the.se days, does not neces.sarily mean a 
dress worn for athletic sports, but rath¬ 
er any outdoor costume of informal or 
semi-dress character. The figure shown 
in the center of the first illustration 
pictures one of these dresses, of the usual 
coat-blouse and skirt type. In this case 
the material was dark blue foulard, 
trimmed with little pleatings of the ma¬ 
terial. Both the skirt and lower edge of 
the blouse had a deep hem turned up on 
the outside, a narrow pleating standing 
up from under this hem. The loose coat 
blouse shows a double row of small cro¬ 
cheted buttons from neck to waist, but 
shows no fastening.s below the girdle. 
The round collar and turn-back cuffs of 
foulard are trimmed with the pleating, 
collar aiid cuffs of white (leorgette crepe, 
hemstitched, being worn over them. The 
narrow sash looped in front pa.sse.s over 
a broader folded girdle. The hat is sand- 
colored lisere faced and trimmed with 
blue velvet. 
A Littee O 1 RL.S’ GINGI^A^r. —The girl 
at the right wear-s a gingham skirt com¬ 
bined with a white nainsook blou.se, 
forming a youthful .shirt-waist dress. 
The skirt, of blue, white and black ging¬ 
ham in a shadow plaid, is box-pleated, 
the top standing up in a frill above a 
stitched belt of white linen fastened by a 
large pearl button. The white blouse, 
ha.s gingham collar and cuffs. 
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Gasoline 
Automobile 
Its construc¬ 
tion, o p e r - 
atlon, main¬ 
tenance and 
repairs. By 
Victor W. 
Pago. 
6x9. Cl, 693 pp. Over 
400 Ills. 
Lt gives' 
Up-to- 
date In¬ 
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on the 
construe - 
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gasoline 
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