Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-30
New Wares and Novelties.

The housekeeping department on
the fifth floor is one of the most in
teresting features of this immense
and manifold establishment. New
goods are SO constantly arriving that
there is always something novel and
beautiful on exhibition.
cut glass jsrdinere is unique and very rich.
1t is designed centerpece for the table and
holds small silvergilded flower pot for a maiden
hair fern other dainty plant. This removed
the Jardiniere will well for elegant
rose bowl There other pieces of cut
glass, which from tleir sparkling brilliancy may
well be called jewels of table ware.
A candIestick Of much beauty and elegance is
of heavy pressed glass. surmounted by slender
fower-shaped crystal decorated with band Of
exquisite etching burning candle will carry
the poetic idea of "a light within n vase.
making the whole effect rarely radiant and bead
teous.
Handsome candeIabra ornamented with CIT
glass prisms and the candles capped with
small shades in color to shed a softened glow
the banquet
Carnation vases are the newest in colonial glass.
They in form much like the sweet pea
vase, but taller being small at the bottom AMI
spreading at the top shape which holds the ends
OF the stems firmly in place and permits the
branches to gracefully, displaying each
flower separately and to the best advantage.
Japan has paid to our country a compliment
very tustly-even if 1t Is to be returned in COM
mercial yalue-by sending American beauty
ware. Our rich red is wrought with
great to form and color cake plates.
salad bowls, cups and saucers. and many other
articles-ali admirable that any Of it will grace
a collection of foreign china, add beauty
indeed to the hospitable board.
vessel lately arriving from one Of the great
shipping ports of Europe has brought some remark
able new wares in anticipation of the melon and
ice cream season. The sets consist each of a large
chopping platter and regulation plates. The
is somewhat like the old majOlica esteemed
years ago, and the ground of some Of the sets is
an ivory tint; In others a turquoise blue. The
decorations gorgeous. A sunfower set faunts
this golden bloom in all its highly colored glory.
A water lily set is more DEBATE the platter and
plates being artisticaly bordered with the pale
green leaves. and the large lilies showing their
convolving roots and stems, are embossed on the
centers presumably as If floating on the water.
Spder-web ware is another novelty fresh from
Japan. This ware. which comes in a varied
sortment of useful and decorative pieces. has. as
the implies, spider-web effects. and there
are also among the meshes designs that indicate
spiders but richly colored and touched with
gold as TO appear attractive than the spiders
We know Of and would never dream of appropriate
ing for patterns In the ornamentation of table
ware. But somehow the Japs do these odd things
very effectively.
new strawberry set is a charming novelty con-
sistng of bowl and berry dishes In fancy shapes,
and also dainty cake plates-all thckfy oyerspread
1t were, with the rich green strawberry foliage
the white blossoms peeping through the leaves. in
the midst of which also rarely fine and deli
clous looking strawberries.
Those new japanese lamp shades. which quite
novel. In that the frames though light are really
made Of iron, furthermore unique in the pan
els. which cut from japanese fans. The col
orings mostly very soft and delicate. and the
varied hues of flowers and foliage lend a charm
ing resplendence to the lighted lamps.
Oriental scrap baskets newly imported from the
far east have square corners and exceedingly
rich in quaint designs and color effects They will
be ornamental in library beside desk any
where, will greatly enhance the attractiveness
of Turkish corner.
Basket suit which shown I'm various
sizes all light that their weight is scarcely
apprecable. Hence they especially suitable
for women when travelling.
Strawberry cappers are Inexpensive little novel;
ties quite useful to facilitate the preparation Of
berries for the table preserving.
Apropos of the picnic near, here
is picnic set of cardboard ware which is assured
ly a novelty that will be appreciated by those who
prepare the outing repast to be eaten the grass
under the canopy of the trees. The plates and
dishes, the set including two scaoped dishes, four
meat plates, four dessert plates, buffers and
salt cellar. lined with greaseproof paper, and
the outfit is completed with set OF japanese
paper napkins-aIl contained in a box convenient
to carry.
The Ideal Steam Cooker is 'the hcusekeeper's
friend" The advantages Of using 1t
more than as follows: mo frosted windows,
crowded stove, damp walls. no tough meat.
steam in the house, offensive odors, heavy
kettles no burned food" Moreover, IL is COM
mended to time, food and labor. and to reduce
fuel bills 1t consists of several vessels,
ranged that various foods may be cooked
heater. and under one general top. This ideal
cooker can never boil dry, since there Is a whistle