Wichita eagle., 1889-06-14
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.
Some Dainty and Choice Things in Table
Ware Provided for This Season.

Some Dainty and Choice Things in Table
Ware Provided Cor This Season.
Delicate china and fine glassware possess a
perennial charm for the housewife, and they
are now SO inexpensively made that even
quite modest tables may afford their pretty
show to set forth the plainest fare IN tempt
ing fashion.
The old style of complete dinner or tea sets
of many pieces exactly alike in decoration
having given place to course sets entirely dis
similar in design and ornamentation there
results a pleasing succession of beautiful
pieces Of china during the progress of meal
There is such great variety in the assort-
ments of dealers that every taste may please
itself, and anything that has the intrinsic
merit of beauty may be considered in fashion.
Some distinctive features, however, are no
ticeable in this seasons goods among which
Coos Housekeeping mentions the following:
The newest colors, as seen in samples OF
pieces for exhibition at the Paris exposition,
are shaded rose, English red, a rather warm
tone, blue and green, each varying In tint In
a single piece, from the lightest hue TO the
deepest, richest shades; a cool, lobster green,
the exact shade of the uncooked lobster;
deep, rich royal blue, called bleu de four, or
furnace blue" very expensive and therefore
very much sought; and lastly, the delicate
cream, rose and light greens, with unglazed
mat finish, of rare beauty, and most likely to
be chosen by art lovers.
The decorations of nearly ALL except the
mat finish colors, are in metal, and the de-
signs very generally unconventional.
Dainty oyster plates for ladies' luncheon
parties are in rose color, with four shells, in
stead Of five. Oyster soup sets, it may be
said, in passing, have small. rather deep
saucer shaped plate instead Of the broad dish
or deep bowl so long in use.
For salads and entrees there are odd, grace
full designs in china of the finest finish, the
wide, straight sides being seen In all the large
dishes. A very handsome set Of salad bowl
and plates was of delicate rose color, with
the dull mat finish which imparts to this
color peculiarly melting effect, and deco
rated with a spray of wild roses in gold which
were dropped gracefully upon the beautiful
surface. OF almost equal beauty were the
similar sets in English red and FAINT sea
green.
The newest breakfast coffee cups are
ribbed, with straight sides, rather taller
than formerly, but or the whole consid-
erably smaller, and have small saucers, to
accommodate the numerous other dishes III
the matter of space. These same cups are
used for tea as well, the low, shallow teacup
finding less favor this season, and the after
dinner coffees are similar tn all respects, but
of more elegant designs and altogether more
fascinating in appearance than ever before.
Chocolate pots are both round and square
and increasing in height. The taller ones
are quite Frenchy, and the Parisienne likes
to have long stick in the center Of the pot
with which 70 stir the fragrant beverage.
lie Proper Costume.
Boston SWELL understand, Miss Bangor,
that you had a Maypole celebration in your
town this spring.
Maine Grl-Yes, and l was queen of the
May.
Boston Swell-You must have looked
charming. What did you weari
Maine Girl-A Macintosh and rubber
bootS-Burlington Free Press,