The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-03-11

visitors are sometimes to be seen
wearing this demonde style of
hat; but to be a la mode Is to wear
the hat we'll on the head, the brim
clearing and turning sharply from
the face, whilst the hair, dressed
high and mostly arranged on the
top of her head, is the dernier cri.
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Styles For the Table.
There are fashion nowadays in
table linens, as in everything else.
Cnlored table-cloths, since white
ones are SO cheap, and easily within
the reach of most every housewife
are not considered in good taste.
Occasionally at breakfast one sees a
very 6ne fringed cloth and napkins
in delft-blue and white. IA,
Napkins for dinner use are quite
wide, Those that come In the finest
"sets" are seven-e ighths of a yard
wide, those for breakfast and
luncheon sIx-eighths, and those to
be offered with light refreshments
are five-eighths. The small nap
kins are very flue and have fringed
or hemstitched ends.
Colored marking cotton should
never be used on linen. White
French cotton is now used for the
purpose, done in satin stitch. Nap
kins are marked at the corner or in
the center.
1t is in better taste to have the
carving cloths for general and prac-
tical purposes made of fine heavy
linen and simply hemstitched
Table pieces for mere ornament
may have drawn work or be
deliberately embroidered but it is a
waste of time to apply such elaborate
decoration to pieces that must make
frequent trips to the laundry.
| A cloth for table of ordinary
width is eight quarters wide. Fof
a table more than four feet, ten
quarters width is required. A nar-
row tablecloth that hangs over the
edges but few inches looks about
as skinny as anything can. There
is aH air of luxury about a table
that is spread with an ample cloth,
whose snowy folds almost touch the
floor.
The trimming of tablecloths has
grown quite elaborate of late
though to have any color, as, for ex-
ample, an undercloth, is no longer
considered in good taste. All
napery must be pure white.
Unfringed damask, which can be
bought by the yard, makes lovely
"sets," the cloth and napkins being
hemstitched and Il row or two o!
dawn work put above the hem.
Cloth with deep hens and inser.
tions of heavy linen lace set in al
the plate line are used at dinners
The hens may be hemstitched, but
an edge of lace to match the insert
ing and put on fat is prefer able as /
flush. Such cloths the careful
housewife keeps for state oc
casions.
Round tables and fringed, rounC
cloths are new. The round table Ii
usually highly polished, SO tina
when it is not set for meal 1t MAY
stand uncovered with only pretty
embroidered or drawn work squar,
upon which stands slender glass
vase with few flowers or hand
some lamp.
"Silence" cloths, or pads to pro
tect the table, are very necessary t,
keep any heat from rea ching tn
wood. A new idea in table pads i
the one of padded muslin. Thi
may easily be made at home. Tn
, cotton is laid between the muslin
, basted in securely and stitched
/ in quite small diamonds on Ih
} machine. Another good pad is mad
, OF Canton flannel, dOubled-th
: downy side Inland stitched Il
} three Inch squares. Bind such pad
t as these with cotton tape.
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The Art of Laughter.
DO you know the art of laughter
A little education In the art woui
, not make it artificial, and one woul
surely enjoy 1t all the more If h
could realize that he might indulg
in mirth without making himse
look so very ugly, as is OCCASIONAL
: the case. 1t runs in families some
0 times to distort the face with laugh
g ter. | know a family who laugh
!, great deal. Their eyes always shu
J, up when they do So, and 1t is tn