NORTE SHORE GBR ER AE 
Jan. 14, 1916. 
JUDY O’GRADY’S PAGE 
Fashion and Household Suggestions 
I’here and When to Use Smocking. 
F all the new trimmings the last 
year has brought, none has been 
more quickly recognized as worthy of 
wide use than smocking. Taken from 
the English employment, it is. still 
very applicable to our American 
clothes and may be used on almost 
every possible sort of a garment from 
baby’s frock to mamma’s lingerie, !t 
has these advantages, that it is a trim- 
ming that is at once effective and 
simple, that it is easy to do, and that 
it is not injured by laundering. 
It seems that children’s clothes 
were never so dainty and charming 
as they are now—and on almost all 
of them there appears at least a touch 
of smocking. One delightful little 
frock for the wee lady is, in fact, an 
exact reproduction of an English car- 
ter’s smock. It is made of a sheer, 
white material, fastens part way down 
the front, and has a round collar and 
long sleeves. The smocking on this 
little gown is in a wide band just be- 
low the yoke in back and in front, on 
the sleeves at top and wrist; and 
feather-stitching adorns the collar. 
Gaily colored threads are used for 
the smocking and the feather-stitch- 
ing is done in the most prominent 
color. 
Another play frock is hand-smocked 
on each side of the front fastening, 
and has collar and cuffs of white. 
Rompers, too, may be given original 
variations by a discreet use of smock- 
ing in blue or pink. Tan chambray 
rompers were quite “dressed up” with 
smocking in darker brown. 
For the little sister, who is going to 
dancing school and to her first parties, 
the question of pretty dresses is no 
unimportant one. Her frocks must 
be pretty—or what good in parties? 
For the mother who does not want to 
see her little daughter wearing the 
trimmings and irodels of the older 
sisters, smocking solves the problem. 
One little model for the girl up to 
sixteen years old was smocked around 
the low, round neck and the short, 
puffed sleeves and the raised waist- 
line. There was no other trimming, 
and the dress, which was in itself of 
charming, soft material, was very suc- 
cessful. The smocking in this case 
was of self color, but many times a 
contrasting or harmonizing shade of 
thread may be used to advantage. 
Since the rousing welcome garden 
smocks received last summer at the 
hands of fickle woman, smocking has 
been used on all sorts of blouses and 
gowns as well. It is a well chosen 
adornment and shows every indica- 
tion of remaining in favor, at least 
through the coming spring and sum- 
mer. 
Feather-stitching and  smocking 
come hand in hand to make an other- 
wise ordinary blouse of batiste quire 
distinctive. Triangles of the smock- 
ing in blue have been done on the 
shoulders in front and about the 
wrist to head the full ruffles that fall 
over the hand. Feather-stitching has 
been done up the fastening band :n 
front and around all hems; that 1s 
on collar and wrist ruffles. Colored 
blouses, smocked in self shades have 
appeared in the smart shops and the 
typical garden smock of last season 1s 
again on the books for spring and 
southern wear. A smock of shantung 
silk, worked in brown, and. with a 
brown belt is especially practical and 
becoming. 
Lingerie, Too 
INGERIE, too, has come under the 
spell of smocking, and chemises 
and nightrobes are more than usually 
attractive when this simple trimming 
is used. An interesting crepe de chine 
robe has smnocking about the empire 
waistline and on the shoulders. The 
deep V neck and full, short sleeves 
are finished with bemstitched bands, 
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LADY 
and here and there a bow is fluttering, 
One of the new black crepe de chine 
chemises is smocked in white. There 
is no other trimming and the garment 
is quite effective. A nightrobe ‘is 
found to match the chemise. It is not 
alone in the expensive garment “of 
silk or satin that clever designers have 
made use of smocking, for American 
designers have turned out some chem- 
ises that are worthy of comparison 
with their Paris rivals. They are ser- 
viceably simple, inexpensive, too, One 
envelope chemise of nainsook was 
picot edged everywhere it might have 
been hemmed, and the only ornamen- 
tation was across the front where sev- 
eral rows of smocking were finished 
at either end with a flower design 
done in cross-stitch. There was a 
nightdress to match. This American 
work is not to be overlooked by the 
shopper who must add her two and 
two many times over to be sure that 
they do not equal six, for it is good 
Jooking and practical and bears the 
label of a league that offers much 
protection to the woman who will 
avail herself of it. 
The Why and How 
of Using Sour Milk. 
MILK has long been known as a 
food rich in thee nutritive values 
most needed by the system. Its com- 
position is largely water with mineral 
iratter, lactose, fat and proteid in 
quantities ranking as in order given. 
The fat is about the only varying 
quantity and upon its presence de- 
pends the quality of the milk. A 
gern floating in the air attacks the 
lactose in the milk, producing lactic 
acid, which in turn acts upon the pro- 
teid and precipitates it, and the milk 
has, as we say, “soured.” The curd 
and whey thus formed are . valuable in 
cooking, the whey containing water 
salts and sugar. Many a delicious 
and economical recipe has been con- 
cocted from sour milk. 
The principal saving in the use of 
sour milk in cookery is in the number 
of eggs necessary. The following 
rule for Graham Muffins contains no 
eggs: 
11-4 cup graham flour, 1 cup flour, 1 
cup sour milk, 1-3 cup molasses, 3-4 tea- 
spoon soda, 7 teaspoon salt. Mix and 
sift dry ingredients; add milk to molasses; 
and Lombine misttures: si 
For those who do not care. for. td! 
lasses sweeting in muffins, the. follow- 
ing is an excellent recipe: BG: 
