Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-10-25
HOUSEHOLD NOVELTIES.
Recent Additions 10 Useful Table FUR
nIshing-Momen 10 the FROM
as Designers.

fear competition with man, ana that ~
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 tax
ing out more and more patents on eieV-
er devices for tightening household Ia
Dor.
In silver plate il seemed as though
we had everything that was useful, 6ui
now some one has designed a handsome
silver pie dish. the intention being thal
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
NAV be used as an entree dish or foi
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, including tray.
egg cups. butter dish, toast rack and
salt and pepper bottles.
An oddly 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 outspread wings
A silver egg boiler has been contriyed
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 10 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. Eve and ten-minute limits for
boiling.
For very fashionable folks are dishes
fitted with electric lamps, which may
be shaded according 70 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 fruit basket with five hang
ing lamps.
In cooking the present tendency is TO
use earthenware dishes and send the
food to the table in the dish in which
ii 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 earthenware 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
frying pan ingeniously supplied with
an asbestos lining, which prevents the
contents 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.
II is now fashionable TO serve tea OF
coffee in glass cups and saucers. Most
people, of course. will always prefer
china; still, this is 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 a lit
tie differently from their neighbors.
A frame of silver that will accommo.
date six cups and saucers has a handle
like a basket. 1t is a convenient ar.
rangement for five o'clock 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 70 have a honey
pot on the breakfast table. and as hand |
some one as your means viii permit.
These pots are Of glass and silver and
are shaped something like a German
beer mug minus a handle. When not !
NNNN ANA ANAtN FOAs VIZ may bt AhuNt' 1
Grated to the use OF jams.
A useful arrangement is a sauce hold |
er, with two racks for sauce bottles I
and rack for a 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, 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 candlestiek set |
upon block with electric connections. |
so that when a 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.
1t is interesting TO note the ingenious |
little cOntrivanca vUhfcb eorn. ol..-.- /