Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-15

othe setn In its place has come the divis- into small sets, according to use; thus, the soup set of tureen and dozen plates, the salad set of bowl and plates, the oatmeal set, the berry set, the fist set, the lunch set and tea set (either useful for the family breakfast and teal, and, lastly, the roast set.
 To buy all these separately and entirely gives the housewife an array of dishes more numerous than the old single set, but the lnnch, tea, and roast sets can be bought to supplement each other, and reduction in numbers ss well as in cost easily brought about. The conventional roast set con- sists of twelve dinner plates, twelve butter plates, six platers, six casseroles, covered vegetable dishes, six baking or coverless vegetable dishes, and the gravy or sauce boat. This is lavish, end the number can be lessened, or some of the pieces can be used for the fish set, or at other meals be- sides dinner. The teapot, sugar bowl, cream-pitcher, slop- bowl, and butter dish, so long part of the regulation tea set, are no longer supplied except for country trade. These are replaced either by those alike in china, glass, or silver plate, mak- ing tiny set in themselves, or each can
 be different piece, as rare, costly, odd,
 or rich in coloring as the taste and purse
 of the buyer may admit. All this makes
 it possible to be continually adding to one's
 store. It helps the builder of a new home
 to begin moderately, even cheapfy, with
 out destroying the taste for harmonious
 furnishings, and gives the pleasure of
 measuring each fresh addition and the
 chance to buy daintier ware than whole
 sale first purchase would allow.
 Porcelain" is the ware between china
 and the ugly coarse ssiron-stone." It is
 fn11u Iurab1a aa ttiron -afnDa y and ia
 thinner and more agreeable, refined in tints
 and decorations, and is the best and pret-
 tiest ware for ordinary use. A so-called
 dinner set in the cheapest grade of porce-
 lain can be bought for fifteen dollars, while those in delicate coloring and dainty shape can be readily found for twenty-five dol
 lars. Such set makes an admirable nu- cleus for a service which may be extended ad infnitum.
 Trenton porcelain is excellent, and comes in all grades and shapes, both plain and decorated in white or cream tint. Wedg- wood, an English porcelain, is often seen in blue and white designs, but comes in all colors and grades, some being highly orna- mental, while the less costly is usually beautiful in form Copeland ware, anoth- CT English porcelain, has @ cream ground, and is generally tasteful in it's decorations, while it's thinness makes it pleasant to touch without lessening it's strength. Thin porcelains are carefully annealed and glazed, so that they do not crack or break as easily as the coarse, stronger-looking earthen-ware.
 To have best dishes ready for use when company comes is not altogether so ridicu- lous as it seems to those who contend that
 'sthe best is none too good for the family, and "what's good enaugh for me is good IL T-fo afa1x- the saying that "the picture that goes often to the well at last gets broken" is equally applicable to every dish that is in constant use, and it is a comfort in any well-regula- ted household to know that there are deli cate, tasteful, unchipped dishes ready to set before guests, which could not be
 easily replaced if subject to daily break ages.
 Trenton china comes in all grades of fneness, plain and decorated, and dinner
 set of it can be bought for about the price
 as the well-known Hsviland china. The
 manufactory of this latter china is in Linn oges, France, and it produces dishes of great beauty, from the dinner service for fifty dollars to that for fifteen hundred
 dollars. The gold banded china can yet be found, but the call for it grows less. In
 it's place is the dull gold irregular banding,
 the gold f1ecked, and the tiny edging in
 gold on raised figures. Genuine Japanese
 china does exist, but its price is always high, and the buyer may be sure that the ordinary low-priced Japanese" tea set or odd bit which attracts her fancy had its birth in New Jersey. Its quaint shape or
 delicate tinting will add just as pretty a touch to her tea table, however, as if it came lover the ocean," Besides these makes of china, there is ''Minturn," which { II. -l,,l s,, Crown Derby and Royal Worcester, Royal Dresden, and the rare chinas of Vienna,
 now the great centre of choice wares, the
 housewife can find ready disposal for all the hundred dollar checks she cares to in vest in them.