The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16

huge lotus leaf and the sugar bowl, cream
pitcher aud cups haDed like lotus flowers.
while the intertwined stems formed the
handles and the fret-veined leaves the
saucers- The pretty .sdy who dangled the
Tea bail remarked that e had been driven
TO aud fro on the face of her library all
winter by perniciOus literary activity, but
having had one story accepted and having
purchased with its TrOceeis the desire CT
her heart IN the tea-sst, sne would row re-
laI Sc PEACEFUL 70 er normal quIetude.
It Is the proper thing at the moment to
have the mulifariOus furniture of ones
tollet table IN richly cut crystal in place of
silver. 1t fully entities one TO en- honored
place in the ranks OF tne toilers TO have t. g
care OF silver toilet articles. The crystal,
moreover, throws over the dainty drawn
work cover of the toilet table and over the
tlntel hangIngs of the bOudJir Pickering
lrldeScent lights whenever a stray beam of
sunshine touches them. The bedroom can
diestlck corresponds with its cut glass base
aud cOlored shade
There was a fine exhibit of Russian
glass enamel in colors in New YORK a
fortnight ago. This Russian glass is won
deFfully graceful in shape, and like all
russian ART IL recalls old Byzan Inc de-
sig $. Perhaps the most famous single
specimen of old Bryant glass is the Luck
OF Edenball," which is not goblet tall,
and as never broken, but is a cup of richly
enameled glass still preserved by the Mus
grave family OF England, in lis stamped
leather case, where IL has been kept since
the fourteenth century.
New York has many fine cabinet col
Iecuons OF old glass. Especially prizsd by
amateurs are the seventeen century vessels
II the low countries. There is much old
Dutch and Flemish glass preserved by the
hnlckerbocker families. Nothing can be
m N1lf rA.rf, Il
certain stately old mansion not far from
Washington square, wnen a neavy mahog-
any cablne5, which shows the highest work
OF the carver's art, is unlocked, and slender,
stately lady. with soft, white curlS and blue
eyes and Withered cheeks, aud a figure like a
glrls, hits one after other with reverential
care the beakers. and TASKS and bowls.
money yellow and pale olive green and aqua
marine blue, some gilt and some cracked
like Ice frozen in the VIVID. The pink comes
IN her cheeks and her eyes sparkle with ex-
element over the fancful and fragile COM
plexIly of dainty Venetian winged and
twls ed glasses, the Old Ere Oh candlesticks,
aud old barrel bottles and wine glasses with
armorlal tablets in gilt. and glass plaques
with figures and shields in color, and French
vases with handles in brass, and gilt and en-
ameled lamps that CLEANED among the
glorles OF medieval Cairo and Damascus.
The most beautiful of these lamps is in the
share OF thistle fl ,wer, and has smaller
lamp, also glats, inside
Glass is cheaner now than it was when
Roman citizenship was sold for ''two
cracked drinking glasses" and we may yet
realize Lucian'S jest in his burlesque history
OF the moon, where he says, 1.-The rich
among item have garments made of glass.
but very soft" But class is costly also.
and when mater fanilias spends $500 for
an ice cream SCI, aud pa.erfamiIias drops
one of the plates and breaks it-you eat
Ice cream from plates now, you know
there may be no scoldiug Administered
before company. but is quite quite likely
that in the depths of their souls both are re-
paating the anathema of st. Cement of
Alexandria, who SAID in the second century:
" This passion for all sorts Of glass belongs
only TO fools; yes, this pretentious, useless,
vain glory OF engraving on glass, which
tends to nothing out t. break them and
cause to tremble those who carry them to
their lips, ought to be crushed BY our insti-
tulo7s Truly there are comforts in being
unable to have things
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.