‘Ttor RURAL NEW-YORKER 
973 
Two Jumper Frocks 
The Jumper Frock. —Few styles have 
come in so suddenly, and proved so imme¬ 
diately popular, as the sleeveless jumper 
frock. One sees this style everywhere in 
serge, silk, tricolette, linen, ratine, cotton 
homespun and gingham. It is cool and 
comfortable, easily laundered, and becom¬ 
ing to all, except an extra stout figure. 
In the usual type, neck and armholes -arc 
finished with a white piping, and there is 
a narrow leather belt, but some have a 
narrow girdle of the same material, with 
long ends. There are no fastenings, as 
the dress is easily slipped on over the 
head. The neck is cut low, and usually 
rounded; the armholes are large. The 
dress is worn over a blouse or guimpe. 
Any white waist may be worn under it, 
but there are various styles of .short- 
sleeved guimpes made for the purpose. 
White net guimpes with short sleeves are 
very often worn. These sleeveless slip- 
ons became almost a universal uniform 
for women in New York during the pres¬ 
ent month, and the fashion is cool, com¬ 
fortable and sensible, 
besides being quite eco¬ 
nomical. One of these 
is worn by the model at 
the right in the first pic¬ 
ture, this being lavender 
gingham with a very 
narrow patent leather 
belt. It will be seen 
that the dress is quite 
as plain as an apron, 
and it is quite possible 
that the popular bunga¬ 
low aprons suggested 
the style. The guimpe, 
worn with it is white 
organdie, with a Peter 
Pan collar. This dress 
is pretty, modest and 
sensible. The little sport 
hat is made of very nar¬ 
row ribbon, fawn shad¬ 
ing to creamy white. 
These dresses are worn 
by women of all ages, 
though we think them 
most becoming to girls 
and young women. The 
growing girl looks very 
well in such a dress, and 
50 little material is need¬ 
ed that it offers a fine opportunity for 
making over a woolen material. 
A Pongee Slip-on.-—' The’ dress at the 
left, in the same picture, is another slip- 
on. This is pongee in natural color, 
trimmed with a narow braid woven to 
look like wool embroidery, in dark brown 
and bright blue. Natural pongee is much 
used *this Summer for dresses and jacket 
suits. It is cool and pretty, but we do 
not advise it for hard wear, as it soils 
quite easily, and does not stay fresh so 
long after laundering. It repels dust, but 
seems to get a rubbed look when worn 
steadily, so our own experience leads us 
to prefer light-weight linen to pongee. 
The hat shown is corded brown taffeta, 
trimmed with a large flower of fawn 
Georgette. 
Three Juveniles.- 
ture the small girl 
at the left wears a 
ruffly frock of white 
organdie, all of the 
ruffles being bound 
with lavender. The 
deep, round neck 
was filled with a 
tucker of lavender 
tucked o r g a ndie, 
and the neck and 
sleeve ruffles were 
set on with a fol< f 
of lavender. We\ 
think these ruffles 
take too much time 
in laundering to be 
considered for the 
small giii’s ward- 
robe in a busy 
household, but the 
same model could 
be used in Fall and 
Winter for dark 
materials; for ex¬ 
ample, dark blue 
challie with a red 
dot. each little ruf¬ 
fle bound with red 
silk. In the case 
of a dark di*ess we 
prefer the tucker of white organdie, basted 
so that it could be removed for washing. 
Organdie and Gingiiam. —The dress in 
the center is white organdie trimmed with 
pink check tissue gingham. The tunic has 
inset pleated panels, and is plain at front 
and back. A band of the check forms a 
panier over the hips, and there is a similar 
deep band at the bottom, while a narrower 
band finishes the tunic in front and back. 
Little squares of the check form a pretty 
trimming for the sleeves, and the waist is 
further trimmed by a rolling collar and 
vertical bands, closing being effected under 
the trimming. This model suggests a pretty 
way of using check trimming on a plain 
dark dress; the use of the tunic will be 
helpful in lengthening an outgrown dress. 
A Simple Linen.— The little dress at 
the right was green linen, with black and 
rose trimming; there was really no more 
making to it than to a kimono, and yet it 
Was very pretty. The short sleeves, were 
cut in one pieces with the dress, -kimono 
fashion ; there was a little fullness at the 
neck, gathered into a narrow bind, and a 
-In the second pic- 
Tliree Summer Styles for Juveni 
short opening at the back, fastened in¬ 
visibly by snap fasteners. The trimming 
was heavy black and rase embroidery 
forming epaulettes on the shoulders, 'and- a 
vertical band reaching up from the hem 
to above the waist line on the skirt. 
The narrow girdle was of the same ma¬ 
terial. This would be a pretty dress in 
serge or other woolen, worn over a white 
guimpe, with colored embroidery in bright 
wool. It would be quite economical in 
cut, whioh must be considered these days 
of cheap wool and dear woolens. There are 
some heavy cottons very desirable for such 
dresses, such as ratine and cotton home- 
spun ; they often appear in the bargain 
sales late in the season. 
.Sewing Room Notes. —Slips of hand¬ 
kerchief linen, white and colored, are of¬ 
fered for wear under sti’aight-line frocks. 
Dimity organdie is one of the fine cot¬ 
tons used for blouses to be worn under 
jumper frocks, both plain and in checks 
and stripes. Net guimpes are also much 
used for such wear, usually with short 
sleeves. The more elab¬ 
orate of these are trim¬ 
med with Valenciennes 
lace, the short sleeves 
being covered with rows 
of the lace. 
Some of the prettiest 
new frocks for tiny girls 
have frocks and bloom¬ 
ers all in one piece, so 
that they cannot come 
apart. The bloomers are 
more properly knicker¬ 
bockers, drawn in at the 
knee, and sdiow beneath 
the frock. Some dainty 
little organdie frocks 
have ruffled or laee-trim- 
med knickers that seem 
a survival of old- 
fashioned p a n t a lettes. 
We still see many little 
girls’ frocks made, after 
the French style, of 
black sateen with knick¬ 
ers to match. 
Little girls’ frocks for 
seaside wear are seen of 
gingham with sunlbon- 
net to match. The frock 
is a plain smock with 
bloomers, sensible as well as pretty. There 
ax*e also pretty play frocks of flowered 
cretonne, or. of plain material with cre¬ 
tonne trimming with a cretonne sunbonnet 
to match. Such a frock is sensible as 
well as pretty, and just right for country 
wear. 
We see some very attractive dresses for 
women now made in dotted challis, which 
is apparently more popular than it has 
been for several years. These are usually 
simple one-piece models with short sleeves, 
to be worn with # or without guimpes. 
One of the very popular sport hats is 
made of narrow stripes of felt, pinked 
along the edge and stitched together like 
straw braid. These hats are chiefly white 
or light colors, and are pretty and com¬ 
fortable. Velvet bats have not appeared 
this Summer, felt or ribbon having the 
preference in sports 
styles. In dress hats 
there has been a 
sudden appearance 
of transparent mod¬ 
els in black maline. 
both crown and 
brim being trans¬ 
parent. There is 
such a great va¬ 
riety in millinery 
this season that no 
one need' wear an 
un be co m ing hat. 
There seems to be 
a decided revival of 
wide brims for dress 
wear, and we see 
many of these pic¬ 
ture hats of lace, 
maline and fancy 
straw, trimmed 
with gay wreaths 
of flowers. 
\ Favorite Summer 
■“^silks are crepe de 
chine, $1.95 to 
$3.95 a yard ; crepe 
meteor, $2.95 to 
$5.95; Canton 
crepe, $2.50 to 
$5.50; Georgette, $1.25 a yard up; faille 
crepe, $5 a yard, and sports crepe, $5.50. 
All these are 39 to 40 inches wide. These 
crepes are especially fashionable in black. 
Canton crepe is in high favor; it makes 
up very gracefully and wears well. 
New Fall styles now appearing in the 
exclusive shops show long sleeves pre¬ 
dominating, which seems almost too sen¬ 
sible to be stylish. A favorite model 
shows a bell sleeve three-quarters long 
with a full under sleeve gathered in at 
the wrist; quite similar to some of the 
sleeves that went with crinolines. 
A binding, like a milliner’s fold, is 
often used as trimming on crepe de chine 
or other thin silk, finishing the edge of the 
skirt, sleeves, etc. Such a binding may 
be from one-fourth to one inch wide. One 
dress noted was taupe crepe de _ chine 
bound with flame color; this binding 
edged the skirt, and extended up the skirt 
from hem to waist in four places, divid¬ 
ing the skirt into panels. White or silver 
gray folds are often used to ‘bind dark 
blue. 
Remedying a Junk Pile 
That collection of old junk that may 
or may not, most likely will not, be used 
in the future, which I have just read 
about in one of your pages, literally 
makes me “tired,” and I feel sorry for 
that man’s wife and children, if they care 
at all for the looks and tidiness of their 
surroundings. I have just such a junk 
collector for my own “better half,” and 
the miles of travel and hours of hard 
work which myself and children have 
spent in piling old boards and stakes 
from the garden, none of which would be 
used for many months, but were thrown 
dqwn,. so as to be handy some time, if 
ever needed again, as were old tin cans 
which had contained plants to be set in 
ground, strings with which vines and plants 
had been tied, and every other kind of old 
trash which might come in play some 
time for something, as your correspondent 
stated. At first I used to let things lie 
where they were until needed, which in 
many cases was not at all, for the 'boards 
and stakes had rotted and become unfit 
for the use intended, the strings too rot¬ 
ten to hold together to tie, and most of 
the tin cans had rusted until our fingers 
punched holes in them when we picked 
them up. The wire used to reinforce the 
cement broke and let the cement crack so 
it was ruined and came to,pieces. A 
pile of old crockery was to be pounded 
up for the poultry, and several old broken 
window panes were to scrape ax and 
other handles if they should break and 
need replacing. 
I was always deadly ashamed of my 
home, and friends were ashamed to teil 
strangers where I lived. A few years’ 
experience taught me my lesson, and as 
our house was on the side of a large hill 
some distance from the'top, I selected a 
large stone pile near the foot of the hill 
on the other side, which was used for 
pasture, and there I made my junk pile. 
The children’s express wagon was loaded 
many times witlx crockery, gjass, old 
wire, tin pails and chicken pans which 
the men had driven over because I didn’t 
get them out of the way, and everything 
that wa3 not really of use went over by 
the side of that stone pile. I didn’t put 
it on the stone pile, because they were 
good 1 stones, and as a new road was being 
constructed the stones might be needed 
and have been used in the road since that 
time. The really “good-to-use-again” ar¬ 
ticles, you may be sure, I saved. I put 
them in a drygoods box behind the bairn. 
In the box I put all the short stakes, 
transplanting cans, seed boxes, good 
strings and bits of wire. Over this make¬ 
shift ‘‘tool house” I placed the old celery 
bleaching, and other boards that would 
hold together, putting the first layer so 
they came over the edge a little, so the 
storm would not drive in. The second 
layer was placed over the cracks of the 
first, not projecting over the edge quite 
as far as the first; the third a little nar¬ 
rower, until I had them all piled on in 
shingle-roof fashion, and as the box was 
oblong, like a piano box, it looked like a 
little house and called forth many com¬ 
ments from all who saw it. So instead 
of the unsightly junk pile, I have a really 
attractive little “tool” house. All broken 
sticks and unusable boards, and there 
were many, were taken to the house, to¬ 
gether with bad strings, and burned. Now 
I have beside my front door boxes on the 
top of which I shall place dishes contain¬ 
ing plants, and plant a quick-growing 
vine to run down over and conceal the 
bare sides, and they will soon be trans¬ 
formed into living green things of beauty. 
I hope my experience may help some 
other reader, for I find there are many 
like situated. jussie. 
Housecleaning Hints 
An old whisk broom trimmed to a point 
in the middle, making the brush V-shaped, 
is excellent for sweeping out the corners 
of stair steps and for some other pur¬ 
poses. 
A little kerosene, used with soap on a 
cloth, will often remove stains from paint 
more easily than scouring soap, and with 
much less injury to the paint. For clean¬ 
ing metal surfaces, nothing equals it. 
In packing away clothing or other ar¬ 
ticles in a chest or other receptacle, make 
a list of contents and attach to cover. 
This may save much overhauling, perhaps 
in pursuit of an article that isn’t there. 
New wallpaper used to repair old 
should always be faded in the sun until 
it is of the same color as that on the 
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