The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-11-30
CHINA FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
In Most Wares White and Gold Is the Ia
forite Combination.

ULTIMA fOh b1E f1OOSEr1OGOs
In Most Wares White and Gold Is the Fw
forite Combination.
The young bride who begins house
keeping for the first time finds it quite
as hard to exercise good Judgment in
selecting her household china and por.
celains as in buying carpets or hang.
ings. There has recently been a great
change, decidedly for the better, in
bedroom washstand appointments.
The water jug with square mouth,
| from which the water flowed any
where except into the basin, has been
replaced by those set in stand and re-
| quiring merely to be tilted like tea
urn. There is a great variety of neat
| patterns but the dull shades of the
Doulton seem most attractive. The
| Russian fancy for colored glass sets,
beautifully decorated with flower
| sprays, is shown in some of the most
too frail for daily use. The newest re-
| ceptacles for tooth and nail brushes
are upright jars.
There is decided tendency for plain
milk white table ware, or white with
a gold edge, of the Derby and Coalport
varieties. Its merit lies in its strength,
and in the fact that it can be easily
matched. 1t is a mistake to buy too
| heavy ware, which leads to as much
breakage as the opposite extreme. The
Shropshire variety of this pure white
ware has already been seen in the
| dainty covered tea cups and bread and
1 h,.N LAT H.. ~
past for invalid and bedroom use.
There is something very dainty look
ing about breakfast or tea table laid
with this ware. Such service may be
used for every meal. In buying choice
wares like the Worcester and Crown
| Derby there is a well-covered style
that is deemed most desirable. and in
case of the latter the price of n modern
service is not beyond the reach of the
well-to-do Crossed lines under crown
or single crown is a well-known
mark.
| White and gold continues to be IA
! vorite for elegant dinner sets. All sorts
of edges are used for these services,
| from single narrow band or wide
one to several bands, and wide, irregu-
lar edges. Often there is decoration
in the center of each fiat piece OF the
set that resembles small circular or
oval bit of finest gold lace. If, in buy
ing china nothing in the stock of a
dealer pleases a decoration is often de-
signed, and then one has the pleasure
of knowing that she has a dinner
service that's unique. With plain,
simple gold decoration many like an
artistic monogram of gold, the letter.
ing being placed either in the center
or on the rim of the plates, and in some
conspicuous place on the other pieces.
Sometimes the coat of arms of the fam
lily is blazoued on their porcelain.
There are SO many skilled china paint
ers and irers in most cities now that it
is often possible to get excellent work
done without paying the middleman's
prices.
Limoges dinner sets are very hand
some. They have a white ground with
double bands of dead gold, and between
these bands are decorations of gay
flowers of Dresden patterns. The
handles of these sets are of solid dead
gold. The covered dishes, which are
box shaped, have borders on both dish
and cover and the platters have scroll
corners.
A new shape in cups is exceedingly
broad at the top and narrow at the
base, with straight sides, which do not
swell outward like the spreading coffee
cups now in use. The 'collarette cup"
is new shape, fanciful French style,
in somewhat the effect of childs col
lar drawn together in bow and band
of ribbon. The new Marie Antoinette
STYLES are different from the china
which now bears that name. The cups
and plates have solid borders, from
which are festooned garlands Of fine
roses.
A new chocolate pot sure to gain dis
tinction at the first afternoon tea where
it serves duty is of fine Dresden china,
tall and slender in shape. Upon the
white surface are sprays of lily o. the
valley. The green leaf and delicate
flower are outlined in gold. Around the
bottom of the chocolate pot is band
of green, where single sprays of lily
of the valley are carelessly scattered.
The handle is half open lily of the
valley leaf The chocolate cups to
match are taller than usual and rest in
a standard of filigree silver instead of
the conventional saucer.
Novelties in breakfast cereal sets
show deep oval dish, wide shallow
bowls, with a plate and individual
cream pitcher beneath. The ground
work of this service is cream color,
while the decorations are wheat ears,
oats and grasses in faint browns and
greens. Chicago Times.