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 BORDER

NETTING

IN

AND

DARNING.

BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. In the front of the number a pattern is given for a Border in Netting and Darning. Short window-blinds for bedrooms look pretty, darned in stripes like this illustration ; it also makes a pretty border to an Anti-Macassar. Care must

BOY'S

be taken in darning not to pull the thread too tightly, or the work will have a drawn, puckered appearance. Trafalgar cotton should be used for darning. There are few things, so easily done, which are so pretty.

FRENCH

BLOUSE.

BY EMILY H. MAY.

A

THE diagram for this popular dress (for which see next page), gives the proper dimensions for the complete dress to fit a boy two and a half years old. The dress is to be made of gray silk poplin, trimmed with black or very dark blue 76

velvet ribbon two inches in width. The front is in one entire piece, opening diagonally from A to B, closing with hooks and loops at the shoulder, or with a button corresponding with those upon the strap reaching from the shoulder