Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-11-05

plates and cups and saucers Nothing of
you Will last last like those"
MENU, SUNDAY, NOV. s.
BREAKFAST.
Grape Fruit.
Cornmeal muSh.
Sausage. Fried Apples.
Baked Potatoes. Buckwheat Cakes.
Coffee.
DINNER
Tomato Soup.
Spiced grapes. Sailed Peanuts.
Broiled chicken. Sweet potatoes.
Rice crouuettes.
Orange and grape salad.
Crackers and cheese. Cranberry pie.
Black coffee.
SUPPER
Dreamed sweetbreads.
Stuffed baked potatoes.
Bread and butter. Olives
Baked ounces. Gingerbread.
At this season comes the china sales,
| when the woman who is unable to have
! her own name stamped on all her plates
| and cups and saucers. is thankful enough
to got some with the names of the
worlds best makers of chinaware stamped
!
nized beauty and excellence.
All women love pretty china, and
while the great army of housewives may
not be able to afford entire sets of Min
ton, Royal Berlin, Royal Worcester,
Royal Copenhagen, Coalport of Dresden,
even single pieces of these famous makes
afford great moral support" Fortu-
nately for the woman with the artistic
instinct, but shallow purse, who has
to buy the component parts of her dinner
services at divers times and in divers
places. the canons of good taste lean
| toward a differentiation Of the dishes
appropriate to the several courses. The
service plate, to start with. is preferably
| Persian. rich in color. The soup be-
comes more quiet, Berlin for instance
The FISH plate blossoms out in rio
of color and richness; many of the world
famed artists Sffert, Alcock. Birbeck
Wilson and others furnishing designs FOL
their decoration to the worldfamed fac
tories of Europe. The meat plate ii
again severe with a simple border o
color of rich gold the entree. of Lin
, oges or Dresden. while the game plat
again bursts forth in an efiiorescenc
Of richness and color, with game as
, motif in decoration.
For the salad course there are con
veutionnlized floral designs. while des
sert plates are charming in the old blu
futed Danish designs or Sevres; and tn
; coffee service in Minton, Copeland or tn
: dainty Dresden.
Iut what about those other womer
. logions of them, whose funds are at sti
lower ebb who must make one set O
parts of sets of less expensive dishes an
, swer for the entire meal, with surrept
: tious washngs between courses by her
, self or her one faithful maid of
. work? For such there are beautift
Limoges china sets obtainable now
eighty-ive pieces for s25. and this wit
the Haviland imprint. Still less exper
), sive is the artistic and dainty Austria
:, ware-over one hundred pieces at SIG
= while odd plates for fish, game. salat
9 ice cream, bread and butter. breakfast G
. dinner in English and French china
. of reliable and durable make-come any
where from 81 to $3.50 per dozen.
Fancy pieces, such as chop dishes, cho'
olEte pots. cups and saucers, jugs an
= pitchers, salad bowls and wide variet
:, of fancy trays can often be picked up ;
n bargain.
Il Sample pieces of Japanese porcelain
come IN fine ware, most attractive de-
: orations and at absurdly low prices, whe
e one considers the time and work put int
- its making y japanese dish is made
= It village home. All the ridges on Il
: side and bottom are made with II
thumb. The designs and colorng sho
j, the handiwork of the true artist. viii
u the dish is finally fired at a heat of 10
II degrees. So it is both beautiful and {
; near undestructibe az any porcelain ca
: he ON this account, that apostle
e household art Miss Both Hendriksen az
~ vocates its more general use, even
= domestic purposes on the cook stov
- There is no reason" she says. wi
l. almost anything cannot be cooked in sue
> ware, You can not put it directly on
n red hot stove when it is cold wtho
its cracking, but You could not do tn
with anything. If the dish is heated fir
with warm water it can be used f
}. podchne eggs. scrambing or sauteein
then carried direct to the table, with
saving of work and a direct adVanta,
- to the viands served" With a few sue
pretty dishes and only an alcohol sto'
or lamp for heating, girl could Ii
ID very comfortably and much more sati
Y. factorily than to go to some cheap, ma
s. odorous restaurant. Very pretty plate
o, bowls and pitchers can often be pu
So chased as low as ten cents apiece.
id While some of the American pottery
~ beautiful in color and form, it is as y
+ too expensive to buy in quantity for I
IN woman who is obliged to cultivate
10 frugal mind
Id The Grueby ware made in Boston is a
y. tistic in shape and beautiful in its shad
On of dull unslazed green. The Rockwo
ed pottery, monument to the perservan
Sc of a woman, is an art industry that I
d. bounds to the credit of the United STATE
70 1t is original work and. as only arts
t. are employed, the results are beautif
r. OF late years they have been singular
as successful in initiating the Royal Cope
MT hagen or Iris ware in soft paste but
IS rule they do not believe in initiating
n
The most attractive of these vast
iardiniercs, bowls, nagons and lovi
cups that come from American wares q
those that have American subjects
their motif. Simple, everyday hgur'
'E products and wild flowers familiar TO /
people are popular and distnctively art
tic. The native American faces-an
* dian, typical New England farmer,
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