Evening star., 1903-09-26
CHAFING DISH STAND
ODD INVENTIONS IN FURNITURE
IN USE.
How Present Fads in Dress Have Led
to Curious Re-
suits.

| Written for The Evening Star.
| Furniture inventions are often a matter
| of accident.
| Il got tired Of fetching and carrying on
| the occasions of my wife's chatting dish par
| ties. and so l contrived table for her
| where everything should be handy" said q
well-known furniture manufacturer.
Hence the small cabinets and cupboards
and three-cornered pieces which fit snugly
into the corners of rooms and support many
a choice ornament besides the ubiquitous
| chatting dish
| One style of cabinet is low and rather
small. 1t has a square table top, with q
more or less ornamented drawer beneath,
and about foot or more below this follows
a shelf with a second shelf at the Same
distance below 1T and near the floor. Some
times the whole lower portion is incased in
glass. but more often the two shelves form
the top and bottom of q glass cupboard
which Is shut in by pretty little loaded
panes or by single plates of glass. These
dainty affairs are OF fine quartered oak
mahogany and show a bright array of such
things may be needed with q chafing
dish.
Young men-especially college men whose
rooms are not open to the raids Of the
feminine members Of their househods-like
tall. spindly cupboards that may scarcely
be designated as such. SO ornamental are
they in manufacture.
upon the top may Stan0 a chaNng dish or
ornaments of any sort, while charmingly
wrought door in weathered oak opens upon
a small square cupboard compactly
ranged with metal stands, clamps and rings
holding array of cut-glass bottles, de-
canters and glasses that do not contain
eau e-cologne nor minister to shaving. An
open space below the cupboard Is followed
by a shelf intended for the chafing dish.
This shelf forms the top of another cup
board in which are plate and cup racks
and holders for all the small chafing dish
accessories. These are arranged in a space
so small to make housewife marvel at
its. convenience.
A Little Sideboard.
While any of these pieces of chafing dish
furniture might serve in a home or apart
ment where space Is an object. the chatting
dish is also provided with little sideboard
of it's own to place in a dining room. This
is small. low affair. with a deep, curved
under drawer below the fiat top and with
or without a shelf near the floor.
The cha fing dish also has a square box
into which it folds up and 1ts into ham
per stored with everything necessary for
cooking a picnic meal and serving 1t prop
erly.
The craze for everything oriental has re-
suited in bamboo and mating furniture
pieces for the chafing dish.
Indeed, so pronounced is this fad for ia
panese materials that everything except
the heaviest furniture Is being made or
them. The passion for Bulgarian styles In
dress has also led to almost as general a
production of rattan furniture in Bulgarian
red and blue.
To the pronounced tendency to initiate
English styles may be ascribed the pretty
little muffin stands of reed, bamboo or
grass, with their shelves for hot mullins,
which are handed around in these old-fash-
ioned stands at afternoon tea upon the
lawn.
Dutch fioorings and furniture are enjoy
ing such a reign of popularity that new
article in this line comes as something of a
surprise. This is an ivory-colored old Dutch
sideboard etched with Holland scenes in
brown.