Telegram-herald., 1890-03-21


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much beautiful eating swees SQUAD
ing table bells % cut glass are ths
fashion. the sh4ps being thas 0f COB
let inverted AMI aigh the elsgper hung
inslas. A fes days agO I saw 4 huge
punch bo4l lllsd for the hr.t tine st =
studio reception IL was almost oig
enough Tor tEs christening u baby.
coss = slall fortune and CLEANED and
fzshei like the Qaeeu % al The d IA
moaas. A5oa- the TOP IL Ras scall0ped
in huge fans Individual fruit baskets
IN cut glass Tor the breakfast table will
give yOaF guest = certain Indication
that you folio. hard upon the heels o.,
the times. II you would win their rev.
erentiai regard put In each a half dozen
strawberries, an orange, = bunch of
grapes snd an apple.
A unique afternoon tea-set was used
the other day In upper bohemia IL
was etched glass throughout. the tray
being hugs lotus Leaf and the sugar
bowl cream pitcher and cups shaped
like lotus lowers. while the intertW ned
stems formed the handles and the fret
velnod leaves the saucers. The pretty
lady who dangled the tea ball, remarked
that she had been driven TO and fro on
the face OF her library al winter by a
pernicious literary activity, bat having
had one story accepted and having pur-
chased with its proceeds the desire OF
her heart in the tea SGT she would nov
relapse peacefully into her normal
quietUdo
II is ths proper thing al The moment
70 have the mGltifarious furniture OF
ones toilet table in richly cut crystal
IN place OF silver. Itfully entities one
TO an honored place in the ranks of the
toilers 10 have the cage OF silver toilet
articles. The crystal. moreover. throws
over the dainty drawn-work cover OF
the toilet table and over the tinted
hangings OF tho boudoir. fickering ir-
ridescent lights whenever a stray beam
OF sunshine touches them. The bed
room candle-stick corresponding with
its cut glass base and colored shade.
There was flne exhibit OF Russian
glass enamelled in colors in New York
fortnight ago. This Russian glass Is
wonderfully graceful In shape, and like
all Russian art it recalls old Byzan tine
designs. Perhaps the most famous
single specimen OF old Byzant glass is
the Luck OF Edenball, which IS not q
goblet tall" and was never broken,
but is cup of richly enamelled glass
still preserved by the Musgrave family
of England, in It's stamped leather case,
where il has been kept since the four
teenth century.
New York has many fine cabinet col
lectiOns OF old glass. Especially priced
by amateurs ate the seventeenth cen
tury vessels OF the Low Countries.
There is much old Dutch and Flemish
glass preserved by the Knicker bocker :
families Nothing can be more delight T.
iul than an afternoon spent in a certain
stately old masiou not far from Wash
ington square. when a heavy mahogany
cabinet, which shows the highest work
OF .bs carver's art is unlocked. and a
slender, stately lady with soft, white
curls and blue eyes and withered
cheeks and figure like a girls lifts
one after another with reverential care
the beakers and TASKS and bowls, honey
yellow and pale olive green and aqua
marine blue. some gilt and some
cracked like ice frozen in the winds.
The pink comes in her cheeks and ber
eyes sparkle with excitement over the
fanciful and fragile complexity of
dainty Venetian winged and twisted
glasses. the old French candlesticks,
and old barrel bottles, and wine glasses
with armorial tablets in gilt. and glass
plaques with figures aud shields in
color, and French vases with handles
in brass, and gilt and enamelled lamps
that cleaned among the g1ories OF me-
diaval Cairo and Damascus. The most
beautiful OF these lamps IL in the shape
OF a thistle flower and has smaller
lamp. also glass inside.
Glass is cheaper now than it was
when Roman citizenship was sold Tor
two cracked drinking glasses" and
We may yet realize Lucian's jest in his
burlesque history OF the moon, where
he SAYS. "the rich among them have
garments made OF glass but very soft "
But glass is costly also. and when
uatsrfamiliss spends $500 for an ice
cream set ard paterfamilias drops one
OF the plates and breaks it-you eat ice
cream from plates now, you know
taers may De no scOlding administered
before company. but II is quite likely
that In the depths OF their souls both
srs repeating the anathema OF ST
Clement OF Alexandria. who said in the
second century: This passion for all
sorts Of glass belongs only 70 fools
yes. this pretenuoIs. useless vain
glory OF engraving on glass. which
tends 70 nothing but 20 break them and
cause 20 tremble those who carry them
% their lips, ought 70 be crushed By our
Institutions T-uly there are com.
forts in being unable TO have things.
ELIZA PUTNAM HrAToS.
v,dca-ake for Busfne.s.
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