Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-28

or mahogany, with four or FIVE
shelves running up the wall to height
In proportion to the height of the room.
These shelves offer capacious and suita-
bic place for the display of heirlooms of
china or glass, or the decorative china
picked up here and there iaterspersed
with choice trays, silVerware and what
not, which are never quite at home in
any part of the house save the dining
room. - Philadelphia Record
TABLE DECORATIONS.
Cut glass still remains the most fash
ionable table decoration. the cutting be-
ing much more elaborate than when it
was first introduced. Plain white is most
generally used, although it is shown in
all colors. Though equally expensive it
has common look not associated with
the pure white, with its ever varying rain
bow tints catching the rays of light cast
upon 1t. Few persons know how to clean
1t properly, and it soon becomes dull
looking 1t should be rubbed with a
damp sponge dipped in whiting; brush
this off with clean brush and wash the
piece In cold water; you will fad if thus
careG Tor 1t Will retain all its prlsmatic
beauty.
not as popular as they have been, as
many floral embles are used perhaps, but
they are scattered over wider space and
various small vaces, bowls and fiat dishes
occupy the corners of the table and the
intervening space instead of all being
massed together in the center as former.
ly, All varieties of one flower are chosen
In preference to variety OF blooms.
Square dinner plates grow in favov. and
the newest are perfect study of artistic
decoration. Dresden tea cups are In V
shape, as thin as tissue and almost too
dainty to use. Never has china been as
eXquisitely beautiful as at the present
time, nor In as great variety. The i'm
portations this season have included
many varieties never before brought to
this country.
Mats for tables are made of brown
cardboard perforated In one large pattern
covering the entire square. They are
lined with satin and the edges worked
with pure silk in buttonhole stitches
They are thick and substantial. and ey.
cellent to put under warm dishes where
the table is spread without a cloth, as Is
COW the custom for all meals except din.
ner. N''
ornamental doilies to put upon the
plates under finger glasses are Of the fin,
est lace work, more delicate than the
SPIDERS web They are, of course, moi
intended for use, bat to protect the hand
some painted plate from being scratched
oy the hnger glass being placed upon IL
ihey veil and do not hide the beauty O
lhe plate, being so thin and transparent.
HOME ORNAMENTS.
Snowberries are among the fayolite IN
Bile decorations.
Curtains Of warm tone should be se
lec'ed for a room with northern OK
posture.
Trailing plants are mingled with IN,
flowers held by she'll flower receptacles
now so popular.
a SILK, velvet or plush bag attached I,
gllced palm'leat fan is a pretty reoepfsel
work. "a i"he
AT recent dinner party the lesd,n,
noral decoration was piece Of sod heay
WIN grass, with here and there a dAisy
hordered with red roses.
IL Is we'll 10 see the warmth we esnno
ieel, and we know OF no moro ffeetIv
way OF gratifying the eye fhan TO Mae
pAnes OF ruby glass in or over the door
me enect Of the sunlight through III
medium In hall is very beautiful.
Even the old Kid gloves NAV be tran,
formed into an article OF beauty the Al
Eerless ones are not excluded. a. n ,
: only 'ne backs that enter into the many