Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-27
HOUSEHOLD NOVELTIES
Recent Additions to Useful Table Fur
nishings
Women to the Front as Designers
Honey Pots. Bread Forks and
Sauce Holders.
Written for The Evening Star.

ing and invention of articles intended for
household use. The heads of great houses
engaged in the manufacture of silver say
that of late they depend for their best pat
terms on women designers. The most sue
cessful designers of wall paper, of silk
goods patterns and of china decorations are
women, and each year women are taking
out more and more patents on clever de-
vices for tightening household labor.
In silver plate 1t seemed as though we
had everything that was useful, but now
some one has designed handsome silver
pie dish. the intention being that the pie
should be sent to the table in the ordinary
pie dish, which is quite concealed by the
silver receiver. When there is no pie the
same silver dish may be used as an entree
dish or for fruit
A novelty whose usefulness may not be
SO generally recognized yet which will be
appreciated by persons who strive after
artistic table effects, is breakfast set of
silver, Inc luding tray, egg cups, butter dish,
toast rack and salt and pepper bottles
An oddly in a jam dish is glass one
with silver butterfly poised at the side of
the dish The dish is lifted more easily by
means OF the outspread wings.
Pretty and Useful.
A silver egg boiler has been contrived, by
means Of which the breakfast eggs are
cooked at the table. The alcohol lamps is
placed just beneath the egg-shaped silver
receptacle into which the eggs are dropped
for boiling. On the stand are little side
projections on which egg cups to match the
set are ranged and into which the eggs are
dropped as they are cooked Some of the
sets are provided with little glasses filed
with sand and marked to show the three.
fVe and ten-minute limits for boiling
FOR very fashionable folks are dishes
htted with electric lamps, which may be
shaded according to the prevailing color at
the table. Wires are attached TO the cleo
trio current in the dining room, and when
the Gls1es are used are easily connected
with the lamps in the dishes. One of the
handsomest of these dishes is fruit has
ket with five hanging lamps
IN cooking the present tendency is to use
earthenware dishes and send the food to
the table In the dish in which it has been
cooked. This is particularly true of those
dishes which have teen baked in the oven,
such as beans, macaroni. potatoes au gra-
tin, pies and similar dishes. The earth
eh%are dish may be hidden by a deep sill
Yer or china dish. Sometimes no attempt is
made to disguise the fact that an earthen-
ware dish is used, for each year the man.
u1acturers are making these in more and
more ornamental patterns.
AsbestOs-lined Spider.
new idea in the culinary line is a fry-
ing pan ingeniously supplied with an as
bestos lining. which prevents the contents
from burning while cooking With this fry-
ing pan goes basket attachment in which
food needing special care Is placed for
cooking There are side pieces so that the
1000 IN the basket may be easily drained,
and the handle is put on SO that it is not
heated with the other food.
1t is now fashionable to serve tea or cof-
fee in glass cups and saucers. Most peonle
nrafa oh ,,,, al
this Is mentioned as one of the cratic fads
that go to make life tolerable to peopie who
like to spend their money and like TO d.;
things a little differently from their ueiph
bors A frame Of silver that will accommo-
date six cups and saucers has a handle
like basket. 1t is convenient arrange
ment for . o'clock teas. There are saucers
for the cups, each one standing in a E,.Je
silver rack on the frame
Whether you like sweets or not, It Is now
the proper thing to have a honey Dot on
the brea i,fast table, and as handsome a one
as your means will permit. These pots are
OF grass and silver and are shaped some
thing like German beer mug minus a
handle. When not used for honey pots thsy
may be consecrated to the use Of jams.
Sauce Holders.
a useful arrangement is a sauce holder
with two racks for sauce bottles and a
rack for glass dish intended to hold
gravy. This is much better than the usual
haphazard way of putting the sauces and
the gravy upon the table. The foreign
FASHION is to serve fruit sauces with meats,
ana when currant Jelly, cranberry sauce or
pr Pdoins are TO accompany any dish they may
be put on the table in these sauce trays.
For the ornamentation of the dinner table
may be bought candleStick set upon A
block with electric connections so that
Wnen small spring is pressed an electric
light Is produced. The candles are topned
by tinted shades so that the effect is that
Of lighted candles.
It is Interesting to note the ingenious
little contrivance which some clever spirit
has introduced for the purpose of aeratinp
water which has been boiled to render IL
free from germs and microbes. Boiled wa
ter is never palatabe but by means Of this
simple contrivance the water is oxygenized
and made sparkling and palatabIe The
aerator looks like a wicker inclosed hottie
and is capped with bulb and a small piece
of steel mechanism.
Tinkling Dinner Bell.
The useful table bell is seen in silver of
quite novel pattern 1t takes the form of
Japanese bell suspended from dragons
tail and is beaten by silver mallet when
attendance is required.
Silver smoked beef or tongue stands are
made with a spiral spring SO that the
Tongue or beef may be raised little by little
as it is sliced off on the top. The beef or
tongue is placed in the circular dish, which
is supplied with a cover to protect the meat
from the air.
Bread forks of silver resembling enlarged
oyster forks, are made of handsomely en-
graved silver and mounted with mother-of-
pearl handles.
Handsome china or silver stands have the
threefold use of accommodating in different
compartments butter, cheese and biscuit
Cheese and butter knives accompany the
stand when it is of silver, matching 1t in
design.
Torpedo Boat Dcstroyers.
From BlackWood