The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1900-09-22
HOUSEHOLD NOVELTIES.
Recent Additior. TO Useful Table Fur
nishipg--w omen 10 the Front
a. Designers.


fear competition with man. and that Is
in the designing and invention of ar
ticles intended for household use, says
the Washington Star. The heads Of
great houses engaged in the manufac-
ture OF silver say that of late they de-
pend for their best patterns on women
designers. The most successful de-
signers OF wall paper, of silk goods pat
terms and of china decorations are
women, and each year women are taxi
ing out more and1more patents on clev-
er devices for tightening household la
Dor.
In silver plate IL 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 il 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 a
breakfast set of silver, including tray,
egg cups, butter dish. toast rack and
salt and pepper bottles.
An oddity in 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 ortspread wings.
A silver egg boiler has been contrieed,
| by means of which the breakfast eggs
are cooked at the table. The Alcohol
lamps are 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
filled with sand and marked to show
the three, Ave and ten-minute limits for
boiling.
For very fashionable folks are dishes
fitted with electric lamps, which may
be shaded according to the prevailing
color at the table. Wires are attached
TO the electric current in the dining
| room, and when the dishes are used are
easily connected with the lamps in the
dishes. One of the handsomest OF these
dishes is a fruit basket with Ave hang
ing lamps.
In cooking thepresent tendency is 10
use earthenware dishes and send the
feod 10 the table in the dish in which
it has been cooked. This Is particularly
true Of those dishes which have been
baked in the oven, such as beans, maca-
roni, potatoes au gratin, pies and SINH
lar dishes. The earthenware dish may
be hidden by deep silver or china dish.
Sometimes no attempt is made to dis
guise the fact that an enrthenware dish
Is used, for each year the manufactur-
ers are making these in more and more
ornamental patterns.
A new idea in the culinary line is n
frying pan ingenously supplied with
an asbestos lining, which prevents the
Icontents from burning while cooking.
with this frying pan goes basket at
tachment in which food needing special
care Is placed for cooking. There are
side pieces, so that the food in the bas-
ket may be easily drained, and the han
die is put on so that IL is not heated with
the other food.
1t is now fashionable TO serve tea or
coffee in glass cups and gancers. Most
people, of course, will always prefer
china; still, this IL mentioned as one
Of the erratic fads that go TO make life
| tolerable to people who like to spend
their money and like to do things lit
| tie differently from their neighbors.
A frame OF silver that will accommo-
date six cups and saucers has a handle
like basket. 1t Is convenient ar
rangement for five o'c.ock teas. There
are saucers for the cups, each one stand
ing in little silver rack on the frame.
Whether you like sweets or not, IL Is
now the proper thing to have a honey
pot on the breakfast table, and as hand
some one as your means will permit.
These pots are OF glass and silver and
are shaped something like a German
beer mug minus handle. When not
used for honey pots they may be conse-
Grated TO the use OF jams.
A useful arrangement is o sauce hold
er, with two racks for sauce bottles
and rack for glass dish intended TO
hold gravy. This is much better than
the usual hsphazard way of putting the
sauces and the gravy upon the table.
The foreign fashion is to serve fruit
sauces with meats, and when currant
jelly, cranberry sauce or plums 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 a candlestick set
upon block with electric connections,
SO that when small spring is pressed
an electric light is produced. The can
dies are topped by tinted shades so
that the effect is that of lighted can
| dies.
| II Is interesting to note the ingenious
little contrivance which some clever
| spirit has introduced fo- the purpose
ofaerating water which has been boiled
10 render IL free from germs and mi
crobes. Boiled water is never palata-
Bile. but by means Of this simple con-
trivance the water IL oxygenized and
made sparkling and palatable. The
aerator looks like wicker inclosed
bottle and is capped with bulb and n
small piece of steel mechanism.
The New stock.
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