The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-27
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He who would be considered up
to date in table etiquette win do well
TO cultivate "A broad and comprehen-
sive acquaintance with the gold and
silversmith's art. The demand for
culinary novelties and the constantly
growing tendency toward daintiness
of service. has brought into existence
a bewildering array of knives. forks
and spoons. and the modern chest of
fiat sterling silver is a veritable
Chinese puzzle to the uninitiated
When the knives and forks essen
tial to an elaborate course dinner are
laid forth to right and left of the
service plate, the array is sufficient to
stike terror to the heart of the in
experienced diner-out. In spite of
the high favor in which the old family
chest of silver is held, there is no
doubt that fashions in fiat silver
change almost every year, and the fad
dish woman tries to keep pace with
them. buying at least one new service
each year.
The most striking change this year
Is the growing depth of the bowls in
all spoons, the shallow bowl having
practically disappeared. Bowls are
also rounder than they have been In
several seasons.
Three designs are in high favor for
complete sets. One of these is a
new Colonial pattern with the chaste
and elegant beading. The second Is
called the new English pattern, and
inside the plain edge of the handle
runs fine etching in scallops, giving
leaf-like effect. Both of these pat
terms show the highly polished or
satin finish. The third pattern Is the
orchid, i'm French gray silver several
shades lighter than the oxidized ware
This is ornate and extremely ex-
pensive, but exquisite in workman
ship.
The up-to-date dinner knife has a
steel blade five inches long with a
three-inch handle in the pattern to
match the rest of the service The
blade of the breakfast knife, also in
steel, is four and a half inches long
The fish knife has a silver blade with
a sharp point, and Is next in size to
the breakfast knife. The game knife
has a pointed steel blade, and is fully
as long as the breakfast knife The
next knife is size is the fruit knife
all In silver, with plain or saw edge
and pointed blade. The butter
spreader is the smallest of all and
OF the making of forks there seems
to be no end, for it is one of the fads
of the hour to eat almost everything
with fork and dispense as far as
possible with spoons. The newest
dinner fork is large, and has five bowl
ing tines. The fork for terrapin, ra-
govt or sweetbreads has "a short
spoon-like bowl with three short, fiat
tines. The fish fork has three tines
and is smaller than the dinner fork
The salad fork Is about the same size
and has three tines, but is distinguish
ed by the tines being of gold. The
berry fork, one of the daintiest nov
elites of the season, has three tines
an inch and a half long attached to a
short handle. The correct utensil for
eating ice cream is cross between
fork and spoon, showing a short
rounded bowl with three short tines
This closely resembles the ragout
fork, being distinguished by the gold
bowl.
The new chocolate spoon will ap-
peal most strongly to the feminine
mind. 1t has "a small round howl
rather deep, which looks not unlike
an exaggerated salt spoon. The han
die may be long or short, according to
the taste of the buyer The latest
orange spoons look like golden tulip
leaves of exaggerated length attached
TO silver handles. The egg spoon is
another one Of the long, oval bowls.
while the soup spoon of the hour is
nothing but last seasons bouiIIon
spoon enlarged.
The newest nut pick has a bar of
silver surmounted by a tiny squirrel
IN the finest of the sllversmith's art.