The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-07-05
Artistic Eating and Personal Comfort.

The feast of the Barmacide to the hungry
guest must have been most tantalizing, for
imag inary food, although served ON dishes
of silver and gold, ornament with rare
gems, cannot satisfy the carnal appetite,
any more than i badly cooked and unsca-
soned meal can meet the requirements of
orr digestive organs from dishes of richly
decorated china. hut properly prepared food
and appropriate tableware seem really to
belong TO each other, and the very best meal
loses giSt eaten from broken stone-warc,
upon an untidy table, with blurred glasses
and Soiled linen.
y few years ago handsome table decora-
tions, we'll us the necessary furniture,
cost too much to admit such expensive
services into ordinary households; but now,
everyone can afford Il plain white china set,
complete In It's appointments, for dinner,
breakfast, and tea, with enough decorated
pieces to make Il charming and appetizing
picture of the dining-room table. One or
two pretty vases, with a tiny bunch or
spray of flowers, or Il single leaf and bud,
adj much to the artistic beauty of the table.
Toast hocr, il log If lalab or other strong
meats and appropriate vegetables, with rich
deserts, demand serviceable sets of Wedge
wood or Copeland but it is too warm for
substani;ils, and from them, even in thought,
we turn to the seaSonable delicacieS and
tbStFitp lHEtl i!lNS NC SUI Ntt-
w hat is more delicious tiuin the pure Phil
adelphia ice cream on the dish formed of
embossed glass leaves, and served on leaflets
to match? or berries and cut fruit from the
same set, with the addition OF cream pitcher
and sjigar bowl" Who can portray the
the delicate loyciinoSS Of the LAKELAND fruit
set, comport, and plates, hand-painted in
exquisite fruits and flowers, or others with
nectar-loving bees butterflies. ami lumming
htrlS
bursting blossoms, OF less refined bat etfcc-
tive beauty ur tho ina.iolipl frNit setS; with
fruit, BIRDS fishes, and insects in relief in
various colorS Indeed, to fully appreciate
such ware, one must see it, and ut John
Wanamaker' : Grand Depot Il large space is
dayateh 10 table furniture, where complete
sets ana odd hic.:cs tra % arranged that the
vista is a beautiful artistic pip,LrG.
One or two pretty pitchers also serve
table garniture and these useful little beau
ties come in all manner of shape, ware and
painted, embossed, or in
relief, and with or without covers. The
VASES too are most exquisite: some are of
sulrhurated glass, li'tnti i,,iHted il flowers,
fruit, and figures, or OF irideScent glass,
silver-mountcd, while the rather more solid
aqnreits are in Limoges, Maiolica, and other
substantial xaFe. with eo!nre'l decorations,
AMI bowers, IeliGS; aiin &int:' ~ +ellGf.
In direct connection with China Il refer
cncc to the fashion IN large establishments
of having Il lunch room for the comfort and
convenience of guests is admissible, and the
Grand Depot lunch room is, indeed, Il bless
ing 10 ,.uasr- shoppers, while Just beneath
is the most an:iir:tiie t.:;,ii.ls fl vary
buyers, that is, the beautiful reception and
reading room where half the day can be
pleasantly passed. if country customers
wan i, take Il late train for home, or ladies
with cludrep cap teoeif,. al desirable at
tention from the qbliGins yaptg ladies in
waiting, who will also take charge Of pack
ages while custoncrs visit ar make pHr-
chases elsewhere.