Cochise review., 1900-10-10
TABLE CHINA.
Longer Regarded as n Good Taste.

tain Gcense of phrase, has come to include all pottery used on the table, whether it be fine porcelain or an opaque earthenware. The old-fash- toned idea that all the tableware should match has been given up long ago by people of good taste, says the New York Tribune. It is the eXcep- tion rather than the rule for house keepers to purchase an entire set of table china i'll one pattern. A great many of the pieces formerly included in full dinner service are no longer used on the table. Ii therefore hap pens that the purchaser of full set can buy it at considerable reduction on its former price but at the same time she must take many pieces some quite expensive ones, like the soup tureen-which she will never be likely to use outside the limits of the kitchen or the pantry The high compotiers, which were generally a part of the old china set, are seldom used to-day Fashion has decreed that lower and more tasteful shes, which do not obstruct the view ,,cross the table, shall be used in their place let, the manufacturers of china have gone on making sets of something over 200 pieces, including an expen- sive soup tureen, compotiers and other practically valueless pieces It is wiser, therefore, to buy set of such pieces as one needs for the table service of the roast and some other dime courceE, with coffee and tea cups and saucers, there being in addi- tion special china sets for the soup, the dessert and the salad courses, or any other courses that one may pre- fer to serve in d special china
 A great deal of taste may be shown in the choice of the proper china for the various dinner courses Good taste decrees that the decoration of the plate designed to receive a clear consoulme must be simple The de sign must be confined to the border and simple pattern in the center of the plate, in order to show to per lection the sparkling clearness of the soup. A cream soup or an opaque soup of any kind may be served in old Canton, or any rich or simple soup plates in ones possession As tEis course is always put on the table in the individual plate, The soup tureen is piece of kitchen china, and should be of strong eartEenware, like other kitchen pieces. The platters for the, roast and other services of meat match the ten-inch dinner plates, which are preferred in simple, deli cate design. X more ornate china is allowable for the game plates, plat ter and sauce boat than for the reg ular meat course The game platter is rather small while the largest plat ter used on the table is that used for the chief meat course. The game plate varies from one the size of breakfast plate to one the size of tea plate. The salad course allows the display of picturesque china It consists of flat salad bowl of ample dimensions, and small individual , plates or saucers to match Some of the prettiest salad sets are designed in Italian majolica after lettuce leaf. Less expensive sets are shown in the same delicate medley of greens that blend so well with the colors of dinner salads. Glittering crystal. suggesting the clearness and coldness of ice, is often used for salad sets. but is too costly for ordinary use and too easily broken. The dessert serv- ice may be crystal or china The most beautiful and elaborately de- signed china may be displayed in the dessert set and in the harlequin" set of after dinner coffee cups, each one representing a different pattern and color. Charles Lamb confesses to "a feminine partiality for old china He says When I go to see any great house 1 inquire for the china closet and next for the picture gal lery China of tasteful color and pattern may be found today at price that would have amazed our grandmothers If we choose slaring colors and coarse patterns, "all to match, we have only ourselves te blame for it