The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

in the serving, while glass is used al
most exclusively. Glass with lights
and flowers, and the glass is not al
ways Venetian, either. French or Eng
fish fancy glass, and that cut, or en-
graved, or carved, here in the United
States, are the species most sought
after.
The matter of greatest moment at
crystal dinner, where soup is eaten
from small cut-glass bowl cups, and
the salad from tall. champagne-s
vases, rich with gliding, is the great
glass center piece. This last not only
holds the flowers and is an ornament
in itself. but usually supplies sockets
for candles, and so it does away with
long-loyed silver candelabra. The CEN
ter piece at a crystal dinner or lunch
con is apt to sit on a mirror plateau,
is worked out in glass of t1ntS or rlcn
colors set in a frame of gilt, ana IL
displays some novel design. 1t may be
a most adorable clear glass temple.
standing three or four feet high, with
, a. pagoda top, in which hangs chime
of crystal bells that ring, by means OF
miniature clockWork set in a gilt pail
on the temples top. The temples pill
lars are apt to be crowned with flower
vases or candles, and inside the circle
of pillars stands a crystal urn full OF
roses.
! Not less quaint and decorative than
this pattern is lofty green and gilded
glass bicycle for a lady'S luncheon,
with flower vases hung at the hubs and
! pedals, and, for musical dinners, are
tall, graceful Tyres and antique harp
shapes of glass, strung with gilded
wires and arranged to hold vines and
blossoms at every available point.
Most astonishingly pretty are the big
glass mill wheels, overgrown with
vines on a mirror lake, or what is re-
garded as the acme of lavish decora-
| ton for dinner table, flight OF
| opalescent glass bubbles. These come
| in sets of four and six, strung on fine
silver wires, and though the crystal
spheres measure all the way from eight
to two inches in diameter, their weight
| is scarcely more than that of soap bub-
bles. The wires are attached to the
! base of cutglass center bowl, full of
| flowers, over which the rainbow-colored
| balls of glass hover like fairy balloons.
Besides these striking frivolities in
glass, the up-to-date housekeeper has
got a brand new dinner table, of which
| no cloth is worthy. 1t is either richly
inlaid on it's mahogany or black oak
surface with colored woods or mother
of pearl, in designs of antique feasts,
or the chase, else it is more splendidly
! still made a repository for her rarest
plates, choicest bits of enamel, or cost
| ly plaques of Limoge Cloisonne and
| other wares These dinner tables, in
| fact, all save one circular spot in the
| center and a plain border at the edge,
have gorgeous pieces of porcelain sunk
in the wood. Women who have for
! years been collecting a perfect set of
| empire or Louis XVI plates, have these
sunk in great circle in their dining
| table, so that those who eat off plat
tiers worth trifiing $50 q dozen. may
yet feast their eyes on plates in will
! low pattern, or sivres, or dresden worth
a couple of thousand dollars per dozen.
Another eccentric table decoration.
! that any hostess may follow, is that of
dressing wine bottles for dinner in COS
| tunes appropriate to their contents
On a claret bottle a red satin petticoat
| can be gathered, onto the cork d dolls
| head slipped, and out of bit of muslin
a French peasant womans cap con-
trived; a tall hook bottle is prettily
! costuned as Pierrot in petticoats, q
| champagne bottle gowned as a skirt
! dancer, and a beer bottle given the
guise of a German fraulein. A few
! odds and ends of finery and some in
expensive dolls heads is all the equip
ment required to decorate half a dozen
| bottles gayly and prettily to place on
the table, instead of the orthodox de-
canters. The cork topped by the doll
/ head can be easily lifted from every
| bottles neck when the wine is poured,
and after the dinner these wine man
nikins are usually distributed among
the guests as souvenirs.
MILLTCENT ARROWPOINT.