New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-04

coFFEE-PoTs LovING-CUPs AND BABE
SCALES

There have been many improvements recentV m
household furniture and kitchen utensils. Inc o'u
fashioned char-step was a convenient pie'' VI
furniture had 1t not possessed the perVeise IN
cIlna;ion that seemed TO exist In all such con.
trvorces which are made "a double debt 10 pay
A, exactlv that momen; when 1t was required ioF
use ne steps It seemed TO insist on remaining
chair and many a dignihed butler moun'e" ."
,hose e,ens has been thrown 10 the ground. wniie
tho steps slowly swung back into ther 'o'"e'
condition OF a wooden chair pure and simple
The library steps. which are usually see" a.
shallow table set against the wall were no mote
10 be depended upon careless foouhs on ','
last step was sure reverse the spring anu "e'
give the person who had mounted them oan .an
All these contrlvances are now made VII"
snrinp lock 90 that they cannot change tneir posi-
ton when they are once fixed In IT. a" house"o'u
s,en,adders are dangerous traps II they are not
furnished with secure locks .
one of the greatest changes OF recent ua'e "
imported porcelain and stoneware conee-po"'
mos, every one is familiar with the AWKWARD
shane of the old coffee biggn or deep cohee-pot'
with It's prctentious second story. II was genea'y
made Of metal and often of tin. Every inteiiisene
housckceper now knows that coffee. as wen ds zee.
should be made in no baser metal than siVe' 1ns
Is far better made in porcelain. or POI Oh VICE.
pure stoneware. than IN any metal Inc 'o'ee
biggin WAS finally introduced in stoneware lev
y",is ago and IN the picturesque blue ana whi -
:onion" pattern which Germans use so mucn IN
Their kGne"f French ware These coee-pots
so complicated. however that tney were ~ ~
sive md some OF the various parts were lao 70
b. broken The new higgins OF nuted French ware
are also exceedingly pretty. They come IN porces
white and white and gold The feature or mess
higgins is that the dip also OF porcelain IS con on,
cesIed beneath the cover, making simpie' tau
coffee-po, when the dip inside IL removed SUCH
n coffec-pot holds more than the old-iashone1
s.cond-story bggin and has fewer parts anu
Therefore n Is much more desirable. ~, -
picturesque loving-cups with douoie hahnss ~
now Imported in the quaint patterns OF o'n D"u''
ton factories ,-..,.,. .,,,s ro~
There are also tho perplexirg Tantalus cups nov
found I'm New-York stores as well as IN hoNuo"
china shops 49,, ,.A .vasnera,,ns
legends tempting the reader TO the inpossti.vue
,ask Of mourning the liquor they cohtali VIII. w.
oif smiling H. The narrow neck or the cups N.Y.
ever is 50 pierced with miniature holes tha III
cannot be done. In the registering uays ~ .i,o
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this lan go
nrohablv attempted often. ana was no uouo' 80
cause Of great merriment The loslng-cuP GU shc
tho Tantalus cup picturesque renn"ets ~ 80
ma and as such now displayed IN ne puii ~
with other historic shapes in pottery Po''''d'" ~
old silver -..,, ,a..,h %. heart
~ rho Young mother who should be brave eiiyuen
"a risk superstitiOn and have her papN "csnssu;
p.rhans the uroptiOus colors o. wnite ana soio
with which the pretty little basket ana nld sCd.c
~, which II is mounted decorated VIII bt"dh ~
SMELL and bring only happy omens 10 tne o"''
that IS weighed in il