The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-11-25
CHINA FOR the HOUSEHOLD.
I'm Most Wares White and Gold Is the Ta.
forite Combination.

| I'm Most Wares White and Gold Is the Fa.
forite Combination.
The young bride who begins house,
keeping for the first time finds IL 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 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where except into the basin, has been
replaced by those set in a stand and re-
quiring merely to be tilted like tea
urn There is n 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
exclusive china stores, but these look
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 q 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
butter plates shown for some time
past for invalid and bedroom use.
There is something very dainty look
ing about n 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 well-covered style
that is deemed most desirable, and in
case of the latter the price of a modern
service is not beyond the reach of the
well-to-do. Crossed lines under a crown
or a single crown is n well-known
mark.
White and gold continues to be fa-
vorite for elegant dinner sets. All sorts
of edges are used for these services,
from Il single narrow band or wide
one to several bands, and wide, irregu-
lar edges. Often there is decoration
. in the center of each Hat piece of the
set that resembles a. small circular or
oval bit of finest gold lace. If, in buy
ing china, nothing in the stock of a
dealer pleases decoration is often de-
signed, and then one has the pleasure
of knowing that she has dinner
service that is 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
r lily is blazoued on their porcelain.
There are so many skilled china paint
ers and firers in most cities now tnat it
is often possible to get excellent work
done without paying the middleman's S
4, prices.
Limoges dinner sets are very hand.
some. They have white ground with
] double bands of dead gold, and between
e 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
c 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
IS cups now in use. The ''collarette cup
is new shape, fanciful French style
I in somewhat the effect of child's col
, lar drawn together in bow and band
: of ribbon. The new Marie Antoinette
styles are different from the china
r which now bears that name. The cups
I and plates have solid borders, from
. which are festooned garlands of fine
: roses.
s A new chocolate pot sure to gain dis
! tinction at the first afternoon tea wnere
: it serves duty is of fine Dresden china
, tall and slender in shape. Upon the
= white surface are sprays of lily of the
, valley. The green leaf and delicate
h flower are outlined in gold. Around the
t bottom of the chocolate pot is band
4 of green, where single sprays of lily
t of the valley are carelessly scattered
s The handle is a half open lily of the
!. valley leaf. The chocolate cups t.
= match are taller than usual and rest ir
r a standard of filigree silver instead O.
r the conventional saucer.
t Novelties in breakfast cereal sett
+ show a deep oval dish, wide shallow
bowls, with plate and individual
j, cream pitcher beneath. The grouno
= work of this service is cream color
v while the decorations are wheat ears
Is oats and grasses in faint browns anC
greens. Chicago Times.
'. Good Breeding.
- The essence of good breeding is sim
{ plicity-not the simplicity of the peas
= ant, although that is good in its way