The Washington times., 1895-06-18
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SOME SMART NOVELTIES.
Musical Gong for Dinner BeIl-Chaf
ing Dish Taper.

ing Dish Taper.
If one rides, drives and hunts, OF course
one must have collection of whips and
crops To arrange this collection upon one
of the doors of your morning room is truly
English and really swell. Mrs. Van RenS-
Selaer Cruger has her choice collection of
whips, some with jeweled and some with
inlaid handles, hung from door in her
hail, between that or door of the morn
ing room is only matter OF choice The
very latest device for suspending the whips
is really unique. 1t consists of two lengths
of very thick, handsome leather, two inches
wide and between three and a half and
four feet long, finished at the top with
loop for attaching it to the door, and at
the bottom with a niCkel-plated or silver
stirrup.
Each strap is provided with three or four
hooks, also of nickel or silver, arranged
at some distance apart, across which the
whips are laid-as many hooks as you
have whips, or vice versa. The straps, it
must he understood, hang len ngthwise, one,
for instance on the left panel of the door,
Che other on the right, and the whips are
laid across as on a rack. The effect is
very stunning, particularly il you have
handsome whips.
Another novelty, which the housewife is
purchasing to make her room attractive,
is a musical gong. This is especially ap-
propriate, indeed intended, for the country
house, the large, rambling country house,
where it is not always easy to collect tn,
family for breakfast, say, or dinner. The
very formal announCement-by a grand
high dinner is served" is
fine and proper of course, when one is in
hut in hA trNr
and more freedom is necessary. On this
account, the mistress of the mansion has
bought musical gong. 1t is Just too
sweet for anything and musical to a de-
gree. Five small brass gongs are sus-
pended from a bamboo frame about
eighteen inches high and not more than
two feet long; with a leather-Coyered
mallet the music is made, like chimes on a
small scale, but the sound, although sweet
and low," is far-reaching, and from one end
Of the house to the other, even though
the distances be magnificent, aud the fam
lily numerous, the musical gong is equal to
the task of collecting the household for any
occasion. One very expert in its use and
provided with two maIlets, canmakechords
that are simply heavenly.
1t is doubtful If half dozen people have
yet supplied themselves with the latest
chatting dish invention, so much of a novelty
is it: ii is nothing more nor less, in ap-
pearance, than a very dainty silver tube,
with small trumpet at one end. 1t is
not quite SO simple however, as appears at
firstsight; there is little slide, which,
unless you are person of keen observation
youwouid overlook; press this slide and a
wee waXen taper appears, with this you
light the lamp of your chatting dish; through
the trumpet-like arrangement you finally
blow out this light, which otherwise re-
Quires vast outlay of breath.
Speaking of novelties for the table re-
calls another, which is really unique-a pot
for red pepper. Why not black? you may
ask; for the reason that the top of the
pepper pot is fashioned in likeness to his
satanic majeSty-a little red devil.