The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-08

Brighton hotel, where 400 women sat down
to tables heaped with roses. daisies butter
cups, peoples, every posy that was in sea-
son. Where 3 dozen long tables are spread
luxuriance and variety in decoration are
desirable, but for the usual course dinner
IN private dining-roOm a mass of single
variety in a yellow bowl or jardiniere Is
much the safest form Of flower ornamental
ton. If two colors are wished for, it is al
ways good taste to choose contrasting hueS
OF the same pOsy, as pink peonleS grouped
with white ones, purple aud white wlsteria,
yellow daisies in vase with white ones. If
more than two colOrs are ventUred on,
care must be taken that they harmonic.
Wild flowers should not be used with gar
den favorites, nor dollhouse beauties mixed
with either.
The table cloth becomes the object of
more and more attention. At one grand
dinner given this past season the cloth was
of silver brocade on a pearly background.
At another dinner strips of yellow silk were
laid up and down the table and over these
were displayed pieces of rare lace almost
priceless with age. More accessible to the
ma jority are the white damask and cOlored
wash silk dinner cloths which are also
splendid in decoration. A fine heavy quail
ity of sheeting linen is as good material as
can be found for cloth on which drawn
work or embroidery is to be lavished Many
of these are made to order and fit the table.
The ninety-inch width is always to be rec
commended, and if the table be of good size
should never be cut but allowed to fall as
low on the ends and sides as pc sible. You
will finish the edge with plain hemstitched
border three inches wide, reSolute4y eS-
chewing fringe. Then, leaving a space of
from an inch 20 Two inches, you will set
in broad insertion of rich looking Greek
guipure or will work as handsome a band
of drawn work as your patience is equal to.
If you mean to use a central scarf either of
white or of some contrasting color nothing
more is necessary II the single cloth is to
answer it is made more elaborate by repeat
ing the drawn work pattern in an oblong in
the middle, leaving an open center IN which
the basket of ferns or low pan of flowers is
to have room.
For an embroidered cloth either'white or
colored sheeting linen or wash silk of any
color is in order, and in the best examples
corn flowers or chiccory blossoms or any
pOSy that suits you are dotted over the mid
die, making closer border near the edges
Washable silk threads or the real Scotch
linen hOsses in the soft blues. plnks, creams
and colds which are called for in needle
work are beautiful on white linen, or if the
color effects is objected to, the effect of
white silk on white grass linen is especial
ly dainty. Napkins are three-quarters Of
yard square for dinner, fourteen inches
for lunch, and are white invariably, with
hemstitched border and spray of flowers or
embroidered initial. Doilies of wash silk,
with cut-work embroidery, are the most
effective. Tea cloths, table scarfs, corn
napkins, carving cloths ETC., furnish much
occupation to the summer needle. A vel
low pongee table scarf may be Ornamented
by vine in Mexican embroidery, the de-
signs being first sketched, then buttonholed
in yellow floss and cut out, the interstices
having first been crossed with floss threads
SO as to leave cobwebby tracery. Corn
napkins are made of cream white wash silk
embroidered in yellow with stalks of maize
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.