The morning news., 1894-11-25


The giving Of a Thanksgiving party at
ones country house really becames a
study, and the mistress devotes all her
artistic taste to her dining-room. and an
her clevcrness to giving pleasure to her
guests.
She is more than anxious, this America n
hostess, to ape her English cousins, and
it is pretty to see how close she comes to
it, especially in the breakfast room. The
sldeboard at breakfast time is an ex-
act duplicate Of the great, huge piece of
furniture found in an English house.
There stands on il delicious looking cold
meats, cold game, game pies that are
very large, and everybody is supposed,
that is, every man body, TO get up and
carve for himself and to help to the good
things the woman body who may be at
the table. The walls are festooned with
red berries and leaves, and some bright
notices about Thanksgiving are carefully
wrought out in shining holly leaves and
berries Bunches of wheat are tied with
bright-hued ribbons, and every thing is
made to bespe8k the thankfulneSs that is
supposed to brim over in the heart and
show itself in the appetite of the Visl-
tors. However, this appetite is catered to
in the most delicate way, and the over
laden table of our ancestors is entirely a
thing of the past Service u Ia russo
obtains entirely, and thank goodness, the
enormous dish of flowers which used TO
decorate the center Of the table and pre-
vented people from seeing each other, is
also relegated to the past A popular cen
ter decoration Just now, and the most
suitable one, is the low silver dish filled
with growing ferns which stands either
on mirror or a piece of sage-green vel
vet. Occasionally, if somebody is very
devoted to the hostess, he brings out to
on =c~;v- do Iar Gil
basket filled with fine orchids, and this
will have a golden ribbon on the handle,
on which is painted in golden letters by
hand: "Oh, be thankful in the Lord
The turkey is the only dish brought on
the table to be carved and as carving is
considered a fine art, the host displays
his talent on this, and gives to every one
that piece of the bird which is wost de-
sired, whether it be the tender white
breast, or the delight of the infantine
heart, the drumstick. Silver racks OF
toast are noted on the fashionable dinner
table and occupy two of the corners. in
asmuCh as there are a number of women
who refuse to eat fresh bread. Brown
bread, cut very, very thin, buttered and
put together so that ones fingers are not
soiled, is, of course, served with oysters.
and after that one may eat white French
bread and fresh homemade bread, or
the dry toast, as is best suited to the
given to the complexion.
Most tables are gorgeous in white and
gold, the white and gold glass obtainin =,
and the white and gold china with the
simple decoration of the hostess's mono
gram, being another English custom that
is followed in many of the best country
/ houses. Life at the country house is
made as easy as possible, and the clever
hostess sends up with the morning tea,
which is served in the bedrooms, a little
notice Of the pleasures which she has ar
ranged for the day, and which the vis-
itor may, or may not, Indulge in. To do
as one likes is the rule OF the house, and
if one does not like TO drive, or ride. or
go to look at the horses. one may loaf
with a novel, or hirt in the hail. or spend
/ the day as one pleases, consequently one
has a good time.s l say nothing is compul-
sory, but by this / do not mean to in
clude dinner. Naturally. one is forced To
appear at that promptly on time in ones
prettiest gown, with ones best temper.
and prepared to be as agreeable as possi-
/ bic. Somebody said that the popular girl
at the country house must have patience
to fish, ability to shoot, and dexterity to
play billiards. She must ride, drive and
row, and when she appears at the
O'Clock tea to greet the men who have
been out all day, she must suggest not
the new woman, but the woman who has
/ been of interest ever since the DAYS of
Eve. She must have a little story to tell,
and she must be interested in the doings
of the men.
A girl who was slipping her tea and
gossiping, told this: THE other night
at the theater I saw a man who wrote
Gallagher Van Bibber' and all those
clever stories. He is stupid to look at.
and he is dressed so exactly and his
white gloves are so Immaculate, that he
makes one think Of haberdasher OF
/ course he is clever. They say he is
/ extremely queer. and believes that the
more odd he is the more the public will
/ be interested in him. This story was
/ told me by a man who knows him Well
/ 1t appears thai ne concluded he would
/ like to 20 TO China and be a war cor
/ respondent. lie proposed it 20 one large
/ publishing house, and they said they did
/ not want him i'm that capacity. Then he
/ suggested il 10 another and they agreed
4 that II would be a good thing for him