Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-29

Breakfasting fAnglaiss the Thing Now.
A Sideboard That is perfect Model of
One in an English Mansion Piled High
with Meats and Dainty Viands-The
Most Approved Thanksgiving Dinner.
Special Correspondenee ofaazette and journal
NEW YORK, Nov. GA long time
ago it used to be the swell thing on
Thanksgiving Day 30 give dinner and
have all ones relations--sisters, cousins,
aunts, with the masculine contingent as
well-to eat and eat and cat until indi,
gestion ensued. That was the day of
the roast turkey, of the pumpkin pie, of
the cranberry sauce and the heavily
laden table that took away ones appe.
tite, that is If one happened to be little
delicate in ones taste. But We have
changed all that now. The Thanksgiv-
ing dinner IS = thing of the past. The
proper thing is to retire to ones country
house for week and invite house
party for that time. The giving Of
Thanksgiving party at ones country
house really becomes study, and the
mistress deyotes all her artistic taste to
her dining-room, and all her clever
ness 70 giving pleasure to her guests.
THE BREAKFAST ROOM.
She is more than anxious, this Amer.
lean hostess, to ape her English cousins,
and it is pretty to see how close she
comes to it, especially In the breakfast
room. The sideboard at breakfast time is
an exact duplicate of the great huge
piece of furniture found in an English
house. There stands on IL delicious look.
ing 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
10 the good things the woman body who
may be at the table. The walls are fes-
TONED with red berries and leaves, and
some bright notices about Thanksgiving
are carefully wrought out in shining
holly leaves ana berries. Bunches of
wheat are tied with bright.hued rib
bons, and everything is made
to bespeak the thankfulness that
is supposed to brim over in the
heart and show itself in the APP.
petite of the visitors. However, this
appetite is catered to in the most deli
cate way, and the overladen table of
our ancestors is entirely thing of the
:
and, thank goodness, the enormous dish
of flowers which used to decorate tho
centre OF the table and prevented people
| from seeing each other, is also relegated
to the past. The popular centre decora-
ton just now, and the most suitable
one, is the low silver dish filled with
growing ferns which standseither on a
mirror or piece of sage green velvet.
Occasionally, if somebody is very de-
voted to the hostess, he brings out to
her, on Thanksgiving Day, large gilt
basket filled with fine orchids, and this
will have golden ribbon on the handle,
on which is painted in golden letters by
hand, "Oh, be thankful in the Lord"
TOAST is VERY POPULAR.
The turkey is the only dish brought
on the table to be carved, and as cary
ing is considered a fine art, the host dis.
plays his talent on this, and gives to
every one that piece of the bird which
is most desired, whether 1t be the teudel
white breast, or the delight of the in.
fantine heart, the drumstick. Silver
racks of toast are noted on the fashiona-
able dinner table and occupy two OF
the corners, inasmuch as there are a
number Of women who refuse to cal
fresh bread. Brown bread, cut very
very thin, buttered and put together SC
that ones fingers are not soiled, is, o.
course, served with oysters, and aftei
that one may eat white French breaL
and fresh homemade bread, or the dry
toast, as is best suited to the digestion
or to the course which is being given Il
the complexion.
IN WHITE AND GOLD.
Most tables are gorgeous in white ant
gold, the white and gold glass obtain
ing, and the white and gold china witt
J the simple decoration of the hostess
monogram, being another English Gus
! tom that is followed in many of TIN
best country houses. Life at the countr,
house is made as easy as possible, aut
the clever hostess sends up with til,
morning tea, which is served in tn
bedrooms, Il little notice Of the pleasure
which she has arranged for The dav, am
which the visitor may, or may not, in
dulge in. To DO as one likes Is the rul
Of the house, and if one does not like +
drive, Or ride, or go to look at tn
horses, one may loaf with a novel, o
tlirt in the hall, or spend the day as on
pleascs.
: NOTHING is COMPULSORY,
consequently one has a good time.
say nothing is compulsory, but by thi
ld0not mean to include dinner Natur
ally, one is forced TO appear at tina
, promptly on time, in ones prctties
, gown, with ones best temper, and pre-
pared TO be as agreeable as possible
Somebody said that the popular girl d
the country house must have patience t
fish, ability to shoot, and drxterity I
play billiards. She must ride, drive an
, row, and when she appears at the
: O'Clock tea 10 greet the men who hay
been out all day, she must suggest, nc
, the new woman, but the woman VII
: has been of interest ever since the day
of Eve. She must have n little story
tell, and she must be interested in til
doings of the men.
: HEY, THE VAN BIBBER MAN!
!. A girl who was slipping her tea an
d gossiping, told this: "Thc other nigf
4 at the theatre | saw the man who wro,
r Gallagher Van Bibber,' and all thus
clever stories. He is stupid to look Il
and he is dressed so exactly, and Ii
n white gloves are so Immaculate, that Ii
n makes one think OF haberdasher. {
d course he is clever. They say he Is e,
d tremely queer, and believes that til
more odd he is the more the public wi
n be interested in him. This story W,
i told me by man who knows him wei
n 1t appears that he concluded he woul
!. like TO go to China and be war CORE
/. pondent. He proposed it to one larg
n publishing house, and they said they di
not want him in that capacity. Then
a suggested it to another, and they agree