Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-11
as TO CARDS.
These Used In Social Life for Waiting,
Weddings and the Like.

These Used In Social Life for Visiting,
Weddings and tho Like.
Invitation cards are now decorated
with designs suggestive of the nature
of the reception or entertainment. only
rough finish being popular. For mu-
sicales they are inscribed with an en-
bossed harp, piano, guitar. violin. or
one or a group of warbling cherubs,
picturesquely attired in a sheet of
music.
Terpsichore. with 3 following of
fairy, airy maidens, bounds the top of
a dancing card. The summons to a
course dinner is attractively prepared
with fantastic, seasonable sketches, as
indicating the edible productions of the
different chimes. Daintily painted
clusters of rose-buds, with the binding
ribbon wildly depicted adOrn the front
page of debutante's invitations.
Cards for euchre, poker and whist as
semblies may be any two cards in the
deck, prettily bound together with
gilded cords; the aces and court tickets
are most favored; however. These are
not made up from actual playing
cards. but prepared and sold especially
to serve as invitations, the first inner
side bearing the date, residence, name,
etc.
For the literary inclined are cards
with appropriate quotations. and neat
sketches of wOrld-renOwned characters,
in prose and poetry. The entire
atelier is exhibited in detail on the sta
tionery prepared for artistic commune
cations or invitations, the more rude
and ridiculous the design, proportion
ately so the satisfaction of host or
hostess.
Invitation cards for silver, gold, tin,
wooden, glass, sugar and every other
anniversary that may be substantially
recognized, are as near as possible a
sample of the desired token; thus tin
silver and gold foil, finely drawn
glass in geometrical forms and every
conceivable color and mixture, and
wood and sugar preparations to re-
semble as far as possible the conven-
tiOnal pastebOard, are inscribed with
the desire OF the tO-be hostess and sent
either by mail or messenger.
The preparations at silver wedding
recently celebrated were, to say the
least, artistically novel. The white,
glistening metal, or substitute, per-
yaded the decorations of every room,
odd forms served rs the receptacles for
the abundance of ported plants and
foliage grouped in hall and reception
rooms, and also received the fragrant
cut flowers adjoining mantel and table.
Tin-foil concealed the brass compost
ton of the chandeliers and other metal
concentrations, even hiding the gilded
picture frames. The hostess wore a
close-clinging princess robe of silver
gray velvet, with diamond ornaments,
and was betting climax to the sup
portable, a bewildering mixture of
white and silver, with an occasional
dash of yellow furnished by the indi-
vidual favOrs, punches of yellow roses
tied with white ard silver ribbon. Cut
glass aud silver dishes only were used.
Either end of the long table was
iraped with heavy table scarfs of silver
satin, a mirror under each center
piece duplicating the same, also the in
Vulnerable lights supplied by the cam
delabras. Each guest, on departing,
received piece of bride s-cake silver
done up in little tin box, monogram
med and bound with white ribbon
Louisville COSrier-JOurnat.