Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-23
OLD BLUE CHINA.
4 Color of Which No One Ever Gets Tired
OF Seeing.


beauty of his dining room by decora-
ting the walls with old blue china
there was revival of interest in
azure-tinted ware throughout the
| length and breath of England, but in
America the admiration for odd blue"
dates from the colonial period, and has
neither waned nor renewed It's lnten-
sity from modern fads.
There is quite a difference, however,
among ameteur connoiSSelrS as to the
relative artistic merits OF The various
depths in tone. some claiming that
the pale tint of the old floating blue, "
the early Wedgwood and Of the willow
ware used by our grandmothers, lends
itself to a harmonious blending with
it's surroundings, while others claim
the exclusive merit of beauty for the
deep blue of the Staffordshire ware,
in which are made the now rather
scarce and rare Lafayette plates, the
"B. and o. Railway plates" with the
first primitive train on them, and the
present day willowware Of American
and Japanese manufacture.
Some Staffordshire plates recently
seen in the window of curio shop
ranged rather surprisingly in price.
Though all made at the English pot
terry, the Lafayette plates were $40
each, the railroad plates So, and those
upon which famous English CASTLES
we've pictured in deepest cobalt were
only $3.50.
The maker Of them evidently
thought there would be more go in
he ,NIo or N
castles at $3.50 among unsnobbish
Americans.
The Lafayette plates are quite large,
and make most beautiful plaques
against a neutral wall or card platters
on a polished hall table and there is
nothing prettier for a card now than
one of deep willowware, blue, or Of
Japanese blue and white, or mohog-
any or dark cherry table.
BY having two picture rails, one
right at the angle line OF the ceiling
and the other near enough TO it to hold
the plates tightly between them, a
very effective frieze of willowware
plates may be put round room at
small cost; or a dado in the same way
if that affords better with the general
decorative scheme. Whistler had little
blue flower pots also hung from the
ceiling and filed with growing ferns
and little jars Of the same at each
corner of the centre cloth on the table
There are lots Of quainty pretty
pitchers jugs and quanty UsP' is OF
Of this expensive porcelain that may
u.s. ..-,.4c 10 accentuaue the artistic
effect by placing them skllfully on
the ornamental, or on a shelf over a
low dorW ay, or on a graduated row OF
corner shelves, according to taste.
1t is certainly a fact that one does
not tire of this color as soon as others,
and people of artistic temperament
simply revel in it. Charles Lamb ad-
mitted an almost feminine Partially
Tor old blue china, and when he went
TO a great house ne always asked TO
see the china closet before the picture
gallery, and quite recently one Of the
most successful novelists oil the day
wrote home TO her mother, while visit
ing an old homestead in The country:
"Nou may know | am hapny; it is all
blue china and dormer windows"
Women the World Over.
The English women appear to be
holding their own in the field of in
vention. The following have been re-
Gently granted patents: Anna Grove,
of London, for an improved protector
for dress and other pockets; Beatrice
Littler, of London, for new and i'm
proved table or stand for the use of
artists: Hannah Albert, Of London, for
cd ei, oil
Florence Hall, for coal wrapper; Ma
rion Sterling, of London, for improve
ments in or relating to dress fasten-
ings: Alice Francesca Browne, for
novel bed airer.
A wedding will take place at Sebe-
waing, Mich, soon which eXcites
great deal of interest from the amount
Of food which is expected to be used by
the guests during the festivities. The
menu will consist of 500 pounds of
meats. 500 chickens and ducks, 100
kegs of beer and 400 bottles of wine.
The wedding festivities will last for
several days. All of the local societies
and the fire department will turn out,
and invitations have been sent to many
persons throughout the state.
A Mrs. Long, of Glen Cove, L. Leon
Quoted her own case before the justice
the other day During the whole trial
she was cool and collected, and con-
Quoted the case so admirably that she
won it. As soon as the result was an
nounced, Mrs. Long lost her composure
entirely, and broke into such loud
passion Of tears that the justice order
ed her from the court room.
An Auburn N. " dealer covered a
window with cloth, leaving convenient
peep holes. Then he put up sign
reading. For Men Only" Women
whose curiosity was too much for them
tried the peep holes and saw fine ar
ray Of mems night shirts, socks, col
lars, cuffs and neckties.