The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-13
NEW IN CUT GLASS.

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 Pretty Bowls and Dishes for Fruits Melons and Ice Cream.
 The new fruit and melon dishes and the ice cream sets brought out in cut
 glass are marvels of dainty workman- ship and more reasonable in price than formerly. A melon dish richly chiseled and of suitable size can be had for $S And fruit and berry dishes in cut glass can be bought all the way from $3 to s4 up to $16 and s10 and $20, according to the size. the texture of the glass and style | of decoration.
 Glass trays and holders with the de- sign etched out in white enamel on the smooth surface are charming settings for bright colored fruits. Others of the eostlier variety have the delicate leaves and tendrils of the pattern mapped out in gold. Glass fruit holders are now wrought Tn rustic guise in the shape of leaves acorn and flower cups or also like the half of a cocoanut or a seooped out pineapple,
 Ice cream sets, including q tray and a dozen individual servers, can be got from SIS to s75 or more. The finest of these sets are beautiful enough for souvenirs. Even the set of simplest character, with plain straight edge and a pattern of stars pr fern balls strewn over the surface is possession worth having.
 Some ice cream sets are in quaint drum shapes with the fiutting and in dentations of the pattern running straight up and down the tray and dish and saucers alike. Others are of prima- tive tub shape reproducing the homely wooden household article even to the Iup-standing handles.
 The majority of the fine fee cream trays are corrugated and fiuted about the margin like the markings of sea- shell. The saucers duplicate the style and shape. l One set has for design the thick pulpy looking stems of the palm or oayonet plant, alternating vi tllisFa heels and spirals, and prim-set panels ot l gossamer- fineness. The whole has la sparkle and brilliancy that gives intrinsic value. @ts3 | Another set is In severely simple \ t Colonial pattern, the smoothly indented panels and cuttings serving to bring out the fine texture of the glass. Some | again are fretted in diamond and iozenge shape in strawberry pattern oi with glinting hob nails, fan circles and flower centers. Scarcely design known to cut glass makers but has been levied upon to.enrich and vary the as. sortment of ice cream and sherbet sets
 now so much in vogue.
 1 Lemonade sets and the tall straight pitcher, bowls and handled mugs fol
 serving the popular fruit punches arlc summer drinks are among the prettiesi of cut glass wares. Some of these are
 stationed on plateau mirror tray which duplicates their beauty,
 The straight bodied pitchers afford good oportunity for the display of g
 rich design. and the cups show the pat. tern in clever miniature, even to the
 work on the handles. Some unusually
 fine sets are in rock crystal with tht decoration showing out like cameo
 Icarving on the smooth surface.
 Many of the punch ladies have hand
 les of rich cut glass to match the desigr
 on bowl and mugs. And spoons fol
 serving ices and sherbets have Likewise
 glass handles of character to mattel
 the other appointments of the .set.-NeV
 York Sun.